Master data analysis through Excel with advanced hands on practical training
What you will learn
What is Data Analytics & Why is it so Important
Why Do We Need Analytics? What’s Changed?
How to Find Appropriate Datasets to work with
How to Analyse you Data
The importance of Mean, Mode, Median and Range of Data
What is the difference between Normal and Non Normal Data
How to create a histogram
How to find and remove outliers
Understand what is a standard deviation and relative standard deviation
Understand the Difference Between a Run and a Control Chart?
The basics of working with pivot tables
Starting to Tell Our Analytical Story
How to Visualize our data
How to Present You data and bring the story together
Description
Requirements
- Microsoft Office 365 or Excel 2010 – 2019
- Mac users Pivot Visuals may look slightly different to the examples shown
- Basic experience with Excel functionality is a bonus but not required
Description
Welcome to the world of Data Analytics, voted the sexiest job of the 21st Century.
In this expertly crafted course, we will cover a complete introduction to data analytics using Microsoft Excel, you will cover the concepts, the value and practically apply core analytical skills to turn data into insight and present as a story.
Look at this as the first step in becoming a fully-fledged Data Scientist
Course Outline
The course covers each of the following topics in detail, with datasets, templates and 17 practical activities to walk through step by step:
What is Data Analytics
- Why Do We Need It in this new world
- Thinking about Data, how it works in the lad v how it works in the wild
- Qualitative v Quantitative data and their importance
Finding Your Data
- How to find Sources of Data and what they contain
- Reviewing the Dataset and getting hands on
Analysing Your Data
- Mean, Modes, Median and Range
- Normal and Non normal Data and its impacts to predictability
- What is an Outlier in our data and how do we remove
- Distribution and Histograms and why they are important
- Standard Deviation and Relative Standard Deviation, why variance is the enemy
- What are Run and Control charts and what do they tell us?
Working With Pivot Tables
- How the Pivot Builder Works
- Setting Our Headers
- Working with calculated fields
- Sorting and Filtering
- Transforming Data with Pivot Tables
Data Engineering
- How to create new, insightful datasets
- The importance of balanced data
- Looking at Quality, Cost and Delivery together
Start Telling Our Analytical Story
- What is your data telling?
- Ask Yourself Questions
- Transforming Data into Information
Visualizing Your Data
- Levels of Reporting
- What Chart to Use
- Does Color Matter
- Let’s Visualize Some Data
Presenting Your Data
- Bringing The Story Together with a Narrative
Practical Activities
We will cover the following practical activities in detail through this course:
- Practical Example 1 – Mean, Mode, Median, Range & Normality
- Practical Example 2 – Distribution and Histograms
- Practical Example 3 – Standard Deviation and Relative Standard Deviation
- Practical Example 4 – A Little Data Engineering
- Practical Example 5 – Creating a Run Chart
- Practical Example 6 – Create a Control Chart
- Practical Example 7 – Create a Summary Pivot of Our Claims Data
- Practical Example 8 – Transforming Data
- Practical Example 9 – Calculated Fields, Sorting and Filtering
- Practical Example 10 – Lets Engineer Some QCD Data
- Practical Example 11 – Lets Answer Our Analytical Questions with Pivots
- Practical Example 12 – Visualizing Our Data
- Practical Example 13 – Lets Pull our Strategic Level Analysis Together
- Practical Example 14 – Lets Pull our Tactical Level Analysis Together
- Practical Example 15 – Lets Pull our Operational Level Analysis Together
- Practical Example 16 – Lets Add Our Key Findings
- Practical Example 17 – Lets Add Our Recommendations
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who works with Excel on a regular basis and wants to supercharge their skills
- Excel users who have basic skills but would like to become more proficient in data exploration and analysis
- Students looking for a comprehensive, engaging, and highly interactive approach to training
- Anyone looking to pursue a career in data analysis or business intelligence
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Content
Introduction
Get to Know a little about me and my experience
Course Overview
What Will This Course Cover?
How to Get an Office 365 Trial for Free
Additional Resources
What is Data Analytics?
Is Analytics Right for Me?
What is Data Analytics
Think About Data
What is Qualitative v Quantitative Data?
What is Data Analytics?
Finding Your Data
Finding Your Data
Finding Your Data
Analysing Your Data Part 1
Mean, Mode, Median & Range of Data
Normal v Non-Normal Data
What is an Outlier?
Data We Will Be Using as Part of This Course
Data Intimacy
Practical Example 1 – Mean, Mode, Median, Range & Normality
Practical Activity
Mean, Mode, Median, Range & Normality
Analysing Your Data Part 2
What will this section cover?
Distribution and Histograms
Standard Deviation & RSD
What is a Run Chart? & Data Engineering
Practical Example 5 – Creating a Run Chart
Practical Example 6 – Create a Control Chart
Working with Pivot Tables
What will this section cover?
Why do we use Pivot tables?
Practical Example 7 – Create a Summary Pivot of Our Claims Data
Create a Summary Pivot of Our Claims Data
Transforming Data with the Pivot Builder
Practical Example 8 – Transforming Data
Transforming Data
Using Calculated Fields, Sorting and Filtering
Practical Example 9 – Calculated Fields, Sorting and Filtering
Calculated Fields, Sorting and Filtering
Data Engineering 2.0
Practical Example 10 – Lets Engineer Some QCD Data
Lets Engineer Some QCD Data
Start Telling Our Analytical Story
The Start of Our Story
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 1 – Quality Performance
Quality Performance
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 2 – Cost Performance
Cost Performance
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 3 – Performance By Day
Performance By Day
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 4 – Paid/Denial Rate Over The Month
Paid/Denial Rate Over The Month
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 5 – Paid/Denial Rate By Day of Week
Paid/Denial Rate By Day of the Week
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 6 – Paid/Denial Outcome Impact on Quality
Paid/Denial Outcome Impact on Quality
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 7 – Paid/Denial Outcome Impact on Costs
Paid/Denial Outcome Impact on Costs
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 8 – Volume of Claims by Claim Type
Volume of Claims by Claim Type
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 9 – Claim Type Impact on Quality
Claim Type Impact on Quality
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 10 – Claim Type Impact on Paid/Denial Rate
Claim Type Impact on Paid/Denial Rate
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 11 – Claim Type Impact on Costs
Claims Type Impact on Costs
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 12 – Paid/Denial Rates per Individual
Paid/Denial Rates per Individual
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 13 – Quality Performance per Individual
Quality Performance per Individual
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 14 – Cost Performance per Individual
Cost Performance per Individual
Practical Exercise 11 – Part 15 – Individual Delivery Performance By Day of the
Individual Delivery Performance By Day of the Week
Data Visualization
Data Visualization
Practical Example 12 – Visualizing Our Data
Presenting Your Data
Bringing the Story Together
Practical Example 13 – Lets Pull our Strategic Level Analysis Together
Practical Example 14 – Lets Pull our Tactical Level Analysis Together
Practical Example 15 – Lets Pull our Operational Level Analysis Together
Practical Example 16 – Lets Add Our Key Findings
Practical Example 17 – Lets Add Our Recommendations
And That’s a Wrap
Course Wrap Up