Data Analysis With Google Sheets Pivot Tables And Charts

Learn how to create powerful Pivot Tables and Graphs using Google Sheets

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.6

- Learn to create POWERFUL PIVOT TABLES in Google Sheets in minutes
- Lifetime access to course material and practice activities from an experienced Udemy instructor
- Learn powerful methods of analysis to turn your data into INSIGHT and INTELLIGENCE

What you'll learn

Learn to create POWERFUL PIVOT TABLES in Google Sheets in minutes
Lifetime access to course material and practice activities from an experienced Udemy instructor
Learn powerful methods of analysis to turn your data into INSIGHT and INTELLIGENCE
Learn to create Google Sheet GRAPHS from Pivot Table data with a few clicks of the mouse
Create CUSTOM calculations that can be added to your Pivot Tables TRANSFORMING the analysis of your data
Create CUSTOM GROUPINGS of data to display your data in new ways
Learn conditional formatting to HIGHLIGHT the key information in your data

* Requirements

* Access to a Google account and Google Sheets
* Using spreadsheets - Google Sheets or Excel

Description

**** Lifetime access to course materials and practice activities. ****

This course is lead by Ian Littlejohn - an international trainer, consultant and data analyst with over 125 000 enrollments & 100 000 students on Udemy. Ian specializes in teaching data analysis techniques, Excel Pivot Tables, Power Pivot, Microsoft Power BI, Google Data Studio & Amazon Quicksight & his courses average over 4.5 stars out of 5. 

Google Sheets offers many of the features of traditional spreadsheet products & is becoming an extremely popular tool for data analysis and reporting.  Google Sheets makes it easy to setup and share data and information within the cloud.

In this course we explore one of the most POWERFUL features of Google Sheets which is Pivot Tables.  You will learn how to EASILY create powerful Pivot Tables and Graphs using a FEW CLICKS of the mouse.

This course is primarily for people who want to learn how to get Google Sheets to do the work for them, without haivng to write complicated formulas or functions to achieve data analysis.

This course will achieve the following:

  1. Learn to CORRECTLY STRUCTURE your data

  2. Create Pivot Tables to SUMMARIZE and AGGREGATE your data

  3. Using Different Methods of Calculation - Sum,Count, Unique Count, Average, Median, Max, Min

  4. Create your own POWERFUL custom calculations

  5. Create Time / Trend Analysis

  6. Time / Trend Analysis graphs

  7. FILTER and ASK QUESTIONS of your data

  8. Contribution Analysis - percentages

  9. Contribution Analysis - graphs

  10. Analyze Human Resource data - Create powerful reports

  11. Learn to GROUP Age and Salary data

  12. Apply CONDITIONAL FORMATTING to data

Who this course is for:

  • Google Sheet users who want to learn Pivot Tables
  • Excel users who want to learn how to use Google Sheets
  • Google Sheets users who want to learn to analyze and report data

Course content

10 sections • 58 lectures

Introduction to the Course Preview 02:44

An overview and introduction to the course

About the Course Preview 01:55

Please download the Training Data Sets Preview 00:04

Setup the Training Data Files Preview 02:55

Introduction to Google Sheets Pivot Tables Preview 00:47

Introduction to the creating Pivot Tables section

Correctly Structure your Data Preview 04:05

In this lesson you will learn how to correctly structure your data for analysis with Pivot Tables

Creating Pivot Tables Preview 06:02

In this lesson you will learn how to create Pivot Tables to summarize and aggregate your data

Working with Multiple Dimensions Preview 04:54

In this lesson you will learn how to add new Dimensions to Rows and Columns

Working with Multiple Measures Preview 03:41

Practical Activity Preview 00:20

In this practical activity you will create basic pivot tables to summarize and aggregate data.

Practical Activity Completed Preview 07:04

The completed activity for the creating Pivot Tables exercise

Introduction to Methods of Aggregation Preview 00:55

Introduction to the Methods of Aggregation section of the course

Different Methods of Aggregation Preview 03:40

In this lesson you will learn how to calculate averages, min and max methods of aggregation

Combining Methods of Aggregation Preview 04:02

In this lesson you will learn how to combine average, max, min and sum aggregations into one table

CountUniques and Median Calculations Preview 05:56

In this lesson you will learn how to use the Median and CountUnique summarization methods

Custom Calculations Preview 07:39

In this lesson you will learn how to use the Calculated Field option to create your own custom calculations.

Grouping of Data Preview 03:13

In this lesson you will learn how to group items in Pivot Tables

Practical Activity Preview 00:45

Practical activity to practice different methods of aggregation.

Practical Activity Completed Preview 06:53

The completed activity for the methods of aggregation practical activity

Introduction to Comparison Charts Preview 00:48

Introduction to Comparison Charts

Creating Comparison Charts Preview 05:54

In this lesson you will learn how to create column and bar charts to display Pivot Table data

Creating Stacked Comparison Charts Preview 05:28

In this lesson you will learn how to use the stacked and 100% options for the column and bar charts.

Practical Activity Preview 00:13

A practical activity to create comparison charts

Practical Activity Completed Preview 04:35

Introduction to Trend / Time Analysis Section Preview 01:08

Introduction to the Trend Analysis section

Time Analysis Calculations Preview 04:22

In this lesson you will learn how to use the Pivot Table Group Date function to easily create reports displaying Year, Year and Quarter, Year and Month, and many more

Practical Activity Time Analysis Calculations Preview 00:20

Practical activity to practice creating reports using different date options.

Practical Activity Completed Preview 05:26

The completed practical activity for date calculations

Custom Date Field Calculations Preview 10:14

In this lesson learn how to create your own custom fields for Year, Month, WeekDay and others.

Trend Line Charts Preview 05:02

In this lesson you will learn how to use the Line charts to display trend data and analysis

Trend Area Charts Preview 04:20

In this lesson you will learn how to display and analyze trends using area graphs

Practical Activity Trend Analysis Preview 00:14

Practical activity for trend analysis and charts

Practical Activity Trend Analysis Completed Preview 04:45

The completed practical activity for trend analysis

Introduction to Filter Section Preview 00:53

Introduction to the Filter section

Creating Manual Filters Preview 03:06

In this lesson you will learn how to manually add and apply filters to your Pivot Tables

Creating Filters using Conditions Preview 03:26

In this lesson you will learn how to use the conditions filter

Filter Pivot Tables with Fields outside the Pivot Table Preview 04:00

Learn to use fields that are not part of the Pivot Table to filter the Pivot Table

Filters and Charts Preview 02:57

In this lesson you will learn how to create interactive charts using the Pivot Table filter option

Filters using Slicers Preview 05:39

Filters Practical Activity Preview 00:28

Practical activity for the Filters section

Filters Practical Activity Completed Preview 07:46

The completed practical activity for Filters

Introduction to Contribution Analysis Preview 00:48

Introduction to the Contribution Analysis section

Contribution Analysis and Tables Preview 05:02

In this lesson you will learn how to easily create percentage calculations for Tables

Contribution Analysis and Charts Preview 05:21

In this lesson you will learn how to display the percentages in charts

Practical Activity Preview 00:29

In this practical activity you will practice creating tables and charts with percentage calculations

Practical Activity Contribution Analysis Completed Preview 06:46

The completed activity for contribution analysis

Introduction to the Human Resource Section Preview 01:04

Introduction to the Human Resource data analysis section

Please download the training data Preview 00:01

Frequency Analysis and Grouping Preview 05:50

In this lesson you will group the Age field to easily create groupings for analysis

Grouping and Charts Preview 03:56

In this lesson you will learn how to work with frequency analysis and display the results using charts

Practical Activity Frequency Analysis Preview 00:32

In this practical activity you will practice creating grouping tables and charts

Completed Frequency Analysis Activity Preview 06:48

This is the completed activity for the Human Resource data section

Introduction to Conditional Formatting Preview 01:04

Introduction to the Conditional Formatting section

Conditional Formatting using Rules Preview 05:42

Learn to use conditional formatting to highlight important data

Conditional Formatting using Color Scales Preview 05:26

Practical Activity Conditional Formatting Preview 00:26

Practical activity to practice using conditional formatting

Completed Conditional Formatting Activity Preview 05:42

This video runs you through the completed conditional formatting activity

Course Conclusion Preview 00:30

Conclusion to the course