Excel Dashboards and Data Visualization 1-Day Course, Virtual Classroom

EXCEL DATA VISUALISATION AND DASHBOARDS COURSE SUMMARY

Dashboards will summarize and present the key indications of large data in an attractive visual display, highlighting the most important trends so the most important aspects of data could could be seen in a snap second by glancing at attractive, colourful charts.

PowerPivot helps analyze the data and brings new capabilities to business users to analyse, explore and gain new insight into business and marketing data.

Power Pivot helps analyze and understand the growing quantities of data that are created on a daily basis. 

Who should attend? 

• Business users who analyse data with Excel or create management reports 
• Excel users who want to analyze large data sets and also create relationships between tables 
• Excel users who know how to Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts 
• Excel users who wish to create interactive dashboards

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction Activating Power Pivot in Excel Browse, Filter and Sort PowerPivot Data PowerPivot Menu Options The AutoSum Function in Power Pivot 

Creating Pivot Tables with Power

Pivot Data Creating PivotTables Changing the Method of Calculation Pivot Table Calculations Filtering with Slicers PivotTable Filters and Slicers Filtering PivotTables and PivotCharts Creating Hierarchies 

Excel techniques that are essential for Dashboards:

Offset Lookup formulae (Vlookup, Hlookup, Match, Index) Conditional formulae (If, Countifs, And, Or, etc.) Aggregate formulae Advanced filters to organise columns and filter rows 

Visuals:

Sparklines Charting: Pie, Line, Area, Column, Scatter, Bar charts, Charting: Axes, 2D, 3D chart elements, Sizing of charts Charting: Formatting of charts Create dashboard heat maps and other shapes Conditional Formatting Highlight top and bottom products/ people etc Excel Dashboard Tips and Tricks including 

Adding inter-activity Forms and controls (for drop down lists to choose what you are comparing) Linking cells to a text box Linking cells to chart labels Linking dynamically to changing ranges and values 

Create Relationships with PowerPivot Data Create Relationships to Master Data Create PivotTables with Table Relationships 

Refreshing Dashboards inline with changing data

WHAT IS INCLUDED:

• Laptops and data for the course. Let us know beforehand if you would like to bring your own 
• Excel Course Certificate on completion (assessment based) 
• Excel Course notes 
• Practical Class exercises, Excel Course Homework 
• To assist after the course, 1 free session for questions online
• Max group size is 4.