Udemy – Transform your excel lists into powerful data-driven apps

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Data is everywhere, from databases to excel spreadsheets. Data is the future. Data is the new oil. Data is here and here to stay. We need to start making more sense out of our... Data.Most of us in the field, where data is used to help the decision making process, have sometimes wondered if things could be more effective and efficient. This course will be your guide to fulfill that need. Be more productive, be more insightful and above all be on top of the "data game" you need to play these days.

Using state of the art technology and methods, you will be able, when you finish this course, to become the trusted advisor for your senior management or even better your CEO or CFO. Advance your career by gaining knowledge in the area of data handling, visualization and analysis.

You could be the one bringing innovative solutions to your companies' data environment and practice. Showing your company what they didn't know just yet, is your strategy to provide them with real and relevant value added data solutions.

What are the requirements?

Have a real interest in developing data-driven solutions

Have at least windows 7 or 8 64-bit OS

Have at least 4 GB RAM available

500 MB disk space required to install

Local admin privileges to install the software (Qlik Sense)

Excel isn't the only source you could use for solutions taught in this course

What am I going to get from this course?

Over 21 lectures and 2 hours of content!

Know how to use state of the art technology with your data

Loading data from excel spreadsheets for fast and rich analysis

Transforming and enriching data

Calculating with / and using functions

Creating powerful and intuitive designed analysis apps

Creating and designing charts and other visualizations

Understand how an analysis flow or tree can be designed

Understanding how information design can help to get insights accross

Translating (business) requirements into data-driven solutions

Really speed up your data analysis practice and make better use of your data in excel sheets or other (delimited) file formats

What is the target audience?

People who like to advance their career in data analytics

People who are familiar with excel and want to do better analysis

Students graduating with an informatics, math, economics or business oriented background

Business analists, financial and/or business controllers

IT professionals looking to help their business' need for information

Accountants and/or business related advisors

And all other people interested in information management in general

Auditors who would like to advise their customers better data practices

The course is aimed towards beginners for advanced data solutions, but is really for anyone who wants to get a better and deeper understanding of information design and data analytics in general

People who want simple and fast insights into data analytics

People who practice BI development in their daily routine might not benefit from the data handling part of the course. The visualization, business value, analysis and design part could still be interesting to have a look at

Curriculum

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introductory course overview

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03:35

In this lecture you will be presented the following:

Who Am I?

Why this course?

What will you be learning?

Why would you want this course?