Learn expert-level data visualization & dashboard design skills, and build 3 full-scale Excel dashboards from scratch!
What you'll learn
- Build stunning, professional-quality dashboards in Excel (from scratch!)
- Review key data visualization best practices and dashboard design principles
- Apply powerful techniques for transforming raw data into beautiful, interactive visuals
- Learn the same tools used by professional business intelligence analysts and data scientists
- Work through 4 unique, hands-on course projects
Requirements
- Microsoft Excel, ideally Office 365 for PC
- Mac users are welcome to join, but may have difficulty following along
Description
This is a hands-on, project-based course designed to teach you key visualization and design principles, along with powerful techniques for creating dynamic, interactive Excel reports and dashboards.We'll start by reviewing data visualization best practices, including tips for selecting the right visuals, eliminating clutter, focusing attention, and telling data-driven stories. From there we'll introduce dashboard design principles, and share frameworks for defining clear objectives, identifying effective metrics and visual elements, and leveraging concepts like reading patterns and Gestalt principles to optimize layout and flow.
Throughout the course you'll practice applying these techniques to unique, real-world projects and scenarios:
- Maven Music
- Create a visual showing the evolution of the music industry and the impact of digital formats
- Maven Careers
- Build a dashboard to explore salary and employment data across key industries in the US
- Maven Toys
- Design a monthly KPI dashboard for sales managers to track regional performance
- Maven Hotel Group
- Visualize hotel booking data to show key cancellation patterns and business insights
By the end of the course, not only will you have unique, professional-quality Excel dashboards to add to your portfolio, but you'll have gained the knowledge and confidence to apply these same concepts to your own work.
If you're ready to build the exact skills you need to create stunning, professional-quality dashboards in Excel, this is the course for you!
Join today and get immediate, lifetime access to the following:
- 6+ hours of high-quality video
- Dashboard Design PDF ebook
- Downloadable Excel project files & solutions
- Expert support and Q&A forum
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Happy learning!
-Enrique (Certified Excel Expert & Instructor, Maven Analytics)
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"At the first part I just said to myself, 'Wow, Excel is capable of that? It's amazing!' Then at the second part I told myself 'This guy is doing magic!', and now I feel like I'm capable of doing the same. I can't wait to dive into the other courses!"
- Judit B.
"Excellent from start to finish. I picked up a bunch of techniques that will be useful in the workplace, from new chart templates to some very cool advanced visualizations. I loved all of it!"
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Who this course is for:
- Excel users looking to bring their data to life with dynamic, interactive reports and dashboards
- Analysts, Data Scientists, or BI professionals who want to develop expert-level data visualization and design skills
- Anyone who wants to learn how to tell clear and compelling stories with data
- Students looking to learn powerful, practical skills with hands-on projects and demos
