Data Analysis using Excel

Excel is one of the most widely used tools for turning raw data into clear insights. This one-hour data analysis in Excel workshop, aimed at beginners, focuses on hands-on techniques you can use straight away on real data.

You'll organize and clean datasets, apply core formulas such as SUM, IF and XLOOKUP, and explore data with sorting and filtering. You'll then summarize large datasets with PivotTables and Pivot Charts, and build bar, line and pie charts to show trends and patterns.

The session also covers conditional formatting to highlight outliers and basic data validation to control input, with practical examples from sales and HR.

• Structure and organize datasets for accurate analysis
• Apply Excel formulas and functions such as SUM, IF and XLOOKUP
• Clean data by removing duplicates and fixing missing or inconsistent entries
• Use sorting and filtering to explore datasets efficiently
• Create and customize PivotTables to summarize large datasets
• Build and interpret bar, line and pie charts
• Use conditional formatting to highlight key data points
• Apply these techniques to scenarios such as sales tracking or survey analysis

• Introduction to Excel for data analysis: interface, key features and best practices
• Structuring data in tables: headers, consistent data types and avoiding common errors
• Data cleaning: removing duplicates, handling blanks and text to columns
• Core formulas: SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT and IF
• Lookup functions: VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP
• Sorting and filtering for quick data exploration
• Creating and using PivotTables to summarize data
• Generating Pivot Charts
• Building bar, line and pie charts
• Conditional formatting to highlight trends and outliers
• Basic data validation to control input
• Hands-on exercises with real-world examples such as sales and HR

Data analysis skills are useful in almost every job. This workshop helps you summarize data quickly, apply the right formulas and present numbers as clear charts, so you work faster and make better data-driven decisions.

It suits anyone with Excel and data to analyze: sales staff reviewing sales figures, managers tracking employee performance, and HR teams analyzing attendance, demographics or compliance data, at any level.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who are dealing with large data and trying to make sense out of it. For example, sales people who are looking at their sales data and wanting to learn how to improve sales, managers who want to easily see top performing employees and monitor employees that require more focus, and HR people who would like to analyse attendance data, create compliance reports, analyse employee demographics.
 
This is for everyone from all levels who has access to Excel and data to analyse to solve their business-specific problems.

Josh Valdeleon works as a consultant focusing on business intelligence (BI) and data engineering projects. He’s been in the data field for more than 6 years now. He helps organizations in establishing and improving their data ecosystems and he also conducts learning workshops to empower organizations in managing and analysing their data. Last year, he was recognized by Microsoft as one of its Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) under Developer Technologies category.