Excel Data Visualization Charts And Graphs

Learn to create stunning visually effective dashboards that aid quick business decisions, track KPIs and reveal insights

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.2

- Learn the When
- Why and how to use Excel Standard Charts
- Learn to create eye catching dynamic non standard Excel Charts
- Learn to create interactive dashboards with no coding or VBA

What you'll learn

Learn the When
Why and how to use Excel Standard Charts
Learn to create eye catching dynamic non standard Excel Charts
Learn to create interactive dashboards with no coding or VBA
Learn to create dashboard that track KPI's
Learn to create dashboards that aid business decision and help revile insights
Learn tips and tricks for approaching an Excel Dashboard project
Get ideas on good and bad charting and dashboard designs

* Requirements

* You must have a version of Excel to work with
* You must want to learn Excel Charting
* Visualizations and Dashboard creation

Description

Do you want to improve your charting and visualization skills in Excel?  Do you want to master the common and lesser well-known charts available in your spreadsheets? Would you like to be able to create non-standard visually effective Excel charts and interactive dashboards that will all KPI's to be tracked, help aid business decisions, and reveal insights from your data?  If so then this course is the course for you.  Excel is not only an awesome tool for storing data and carrying out calculations, but it is also an amazing visualization tool from which you can design and create interactive dynamic dashboards and we are here to show you how it all works.

We will start this course by looking at the basics of charting in Excel.  You will explore ways to insert charts and formatting options.   After this, we will take a deep dive into creating the most commonly used charts such as line charts, pies charts, and columns charts.  And we will then finish the basics by looking at less common charts.

Once we have mastered the basics, you will then learn how to create dynamic non-standard visually effective charts and visualization.  You will learn advanced use functions and formulas to drive interaction and by the end of this course, you will be comfortable taking on a dashboard project from scratch.

This is a hands-on course, with workbooks to download and a lot to practice and master, giving you Excel dashboard skills that are in high demand in this growing world of data.

Who this course is for:

  • Those new to creating charts in Excel
  • Those that want to explore the use of Visualizations in Excel
  • Those that want to learn to create stunning charts
  • Those that want to learn how to create basic interactive Dashboards
  • Those that want to learn to create advanced Excel Dashboards
  • Students looking for an engaging, hands-on, and interactive course
  • Those looking to skill up in Excel in an area where the skills are in high demand

Course content

8 sections • 77 lectures

Introduction Preview 02:54

Module 1 Introduction Preview 00:57

Inserting Charts Preview 05:39

Using Ideas Preview 02:28

Chart Ribbons Preview 04:15

Pivot Charts Preview 04:10

Charting Elements Preview 03:31

Chart Templates Preview 06:33

Principles of Data visualization Introduction Preview 01:37

Principles of visualizations Preview 04:22

Good and Bad charts Preview 05:35

Mastering common Charts Intro Preview 01:10

Module 3 workbook Preview 00:37

Working with Line charts and Trendlines Preview 09:13

Bar and Column Charts Preview 02:27

Working with Bar and Column Charts in Excel Preview 09:51

An introduction to Histograms Preview 02:45

Working with Histogram and Pareto Charts in Excel Preview 07:29

Area Charts Preview 02:54

Working with Area Charts in Excel Preview 04:49

Pie and Donut Charts Preview 07:24

Scatter Charts Preview 02:41

Working with Scatter Charts in Excel Preview 07:30

Working with Funnel Charts Preview 04:36

Filled Maps in Excel Preview 06:11

Mastering Less Common Charts Preview 00:30

An introduction to bubble charts Preview 02:01

Bubble charts Preview 11:41

Radar charts Preview 06:08

Introducing Waterfall charts Preview 02:06

Working with Excels Waterfall charts Preview 07:28

Getting started with Waterfall charts Preview 09:03

Heat Maps and surface area charts Preview 06:56

Stock charts Preview 18:57

working with Combination charts in Excel Preview 06:18

Sparklines Preview 09:21

Tree Maps and sunbursts Preview 05:24

Box and Whisker plots Preview 06:57

Stock Image Dashboard in Excel Preview 21:47

Lets talk about Dashboards Introduction Preview 00:40

What is a Dashboard Preview 06:30

Where to start when designing a dashboard Preview 07:28

Dashboard Don'ts Preview 01:50

Why use Excel Preview 02:13

Good and bad dashboard examples Preview 06:59

Creating dynamic charts Introduction Preview 01:06

Creating a custom visual overlay Preview 13:14

Waterfall charts Preview 12:07

More waterfalls Preview 12:24

Gauge Charts Preview 18:40

More on Gauge Charts Preview 14:26

Dynamic Sales V's Budget Preview 16:29

Sales V's Budget part 2 Preview 07:03

Creating Dynamic Legends Preview 10:32

Formatting based on values Preview 20:11

Dynamic formatting based on criteria Preview 11:16

How and why to fix an axis on dynamic and multiple charts Preview 07:31

Top N tables Preview 06:50

Automating interactive Charts Introduction Preview 01:04

Automating Charts with names ranges Preview 19:22

Automating Charts with names ranges 2 Preview 11:58

Dynamic ranges for subsets of data Preview 12:05

Change charting period with dropdown Preview 11:34

Cumulative totals challenge solution Preview 05:22

Charting with Vlookups and named ranges Preview 19:30

Changing charts with named ranges and vlookup Preview 05:29

Changing charts with form controls Preview 10:00

Zoom with form controls Preview 11:14

Creating Cards Preview 19:13

workbooks for this section Preview 00:04

Building the final dashboards Introduction Preview 01:26

High level dashboard Preview 06:46

Dashboard protection and finishing touches Preview 06:00

Our second dashboard Preview 15:25

The Third Dashboard Preview 07:05

Linking and other dashboard tips Preview 08:37

Course Conclusion Preview 01:20