Data Analysis and Data Visualization with Microsoft Copilot

Name: Data Analysis and Data Visualization with Microsoft Copilot
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Learn Data Analysis, Data Visualization, AI-Powered Reporting, Dashboard Creation, and Business Insights with Microsoft

Created byMeta Brains

Last updated 6/2026

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What you'll learn

Analyze and interpret datasets using Microsoft Copilot to uncover trends, patterns, and actionable business insights.
Create professional charts, dashboards, and visual reports that effectively communicate data-driven findings.
Use Copilot prompts to automate data analysis tasks, generate summaries, and accelerate decision-making.
Apply real-world data visualization techniques to transform raw data into meaningful and engaging stories.

Course content

6 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 34m total length

What is Microsoft Copilot?5:00
Explore Microsoft Copilot, an ai-powered assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 that analyzes data, creates charts, drafts reports, and automates tasks across Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint with enterprise security.
Key Features for Data Analysis and Visualization4:07
Master data analysis and visualization in Excel with pivot tables, data analysis tool pack, power query, power pivot, and what-if analysis, plus charts, sparklines, and conditional formatting.
Use Cases Across Industries1:20
Explore use cases across industries where Microsoft Copilot powers data analysis and data visualization to improve healthcare outcomes, track recovery, optimize treatment plans, and detect fraud in finance.

Understanding Data Types and Structures2:47
Explore common data types, integers, floats, strings, booleans, and core structures like lists, dictionaries, data frames, and arrays, with practical examples and use cases.
Data Cleaning and Transformation Basics7:19
Descriptive Statistics and Summary Metrics5:09
Using Copilot to Explore Datasets4:47
Use Copilot in Excel to explore datasets with natural language, analyze and visualize data, summarize 2023 sales, identify outliers, and create visualizations like a bar chart of sales by region.
Mini Project 2: Sales Data Cleanup8:04

Importing and Transforming Data3:39
Using Natural Language to Generate Formulas9:32
Creating Pivot Tables and Summaries3:54
Create pivot tables in Excel with Copilot to summarize data, showing total revenue by region and average customer satisfaction by product, guiding data-driven business decisions.
Automating Repetitive Tasks7:37
Automate repetitive analysis and visualization tasks in a daily sales dataset using Microsoft Copilot, creating a pivot table and chart that automatically refresh when new data is added.
Mini Project 3: Employee Performance Summary6:58
Analyze employee KPIs with Microsoft Copilot to generate formulas, pivot tables, and insights; visualize trends with line and bar charts and rank the top 10 sales performers across departments.
Mini Project 4: Expense Tracker Automation8:16

Why Visualization Matters4:10
Learn why data visualization matters by using charts to reveal patterns, trends, and outliers, improve memory, and enable quick, informed decisions and clearer communication.
Choosing the Right Chart3:55
Choose the right chart by data type and the story you want to tell, comparing bar, line, pie, histogram, scatter, area, box plots, and heat maps on a single dataset.
Best Practices for Clarity and Impact2:31
Apply best practices for clarity and impact to prevent misleading visuals. Understand the audience, select appropriate chart types, use color strategically, and keep a clean design with clear labels.
Avoiding Misleading Visuals3:04
Explain how to avoid misleading visuals by maintaining trust, accuracy, and clarity in data storytelling; follow practices like starting at zero for pie charts, keeping slices proportional, and labeling clearly.
Mini Project 5: Chart Critique Exercise4:51
Critique and improve poorly designed Excel charts with Microsoft Copilot, converting cluttered visuals of monthly sales, profit, and customer satisfaction into clear line and grouped bar charts for data visualization.

Creating Charts Using Natural Language13:31
Learn to create and analyze charts from a marketing campaign dataset with natural language prompts in Microsoft Copilot, using bar, scatter, bubble, combo, waterfall visuals to compare revenue and cost.
Customizing Visuals (Colors, Labels, Axes)5:37
Building Dashboards in Excel7:26
Build an interactive customer demographic dashboard in Excel with Copilot, generating KPIs like average age, average spend, and most common category, plus charts and dashboards for clear insights.
Mini Project 6: Marketing Campaign Analysis9:34
Analyze and visualize marketing campaign performance in Excel with Copilot, building a dashboard of key metrics and charts for CTR, ROI, and conversion rate by campaign.

Exploring and Understanding Structured Retail Datasets4:08
Explore structured retail datasets to build an interactive Excel dashboard with Microsoft Copilot, covering sales, inventory, and staff data to generate data-driven insights.
Designing Clean and Interactive Dashboard Layouts3:24
Part 1: Building Our Dashboard with Copilot – Charts, Slicers & Pivot Tables8:46
Use Copilot as an assistant to generate pivot tables, charts, and slicers for a dashboard, then manually finalize monthly groupings and updates.
Part 2: KPI Formulas, Slicer Sync & Live Updates5:16

Requirements

No prior data analysis experience is required. Basic computer skills and access to Microsoft Copilot are recommended. Answer 2

Description

Disclaimer : This course contains the use of Artificial Intelligence
Are you ready to transform raw data into meaningful insights using the power of Artificial Intelligence?

In this practical and beginner-friendly course, you will learn how to perform data analysis and create professional data visualizations using Microsoft Copilot. Whether you are a business professional, student, analyst, manager, or aspiring data enthusiast, this course will help you leverage AI to analyze information faster, uncover trends, generate reports, and make data-driven decisions with confidence.

Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing the way organizations work with data. Instead of spending hours manually analyzing spreadsheets and creating reports, you can use AI-powered assistance to accelerate your workflow, improve productivity, and gain deeper insights from your data.

Throughout this course, you will learn how to use Microsoft Copilot for data exploration, analysis, visualization, reporting, and business intelligence tasks. You will discover how to create charts, dashboards, summaries, and visual reports while learning best practices for communicating insights effectively.

By the end of the course, you will be able to analyze datasets, identify patterns and trends, create compelling visualizations, automate repetitive analytical tasks, and generate actionable business insights using Microsoft Copilot.

What You Will Learn:

• Introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Data Analysis
• Data Exploration and Data Preparation Techniques
• AI-Powered Data Analysis Workflows
• Creating Professional Charts and Visualizations
• Building Interactive Dashboards
• Generating Reports and Business Insights
• Automating Data Tasks with Copilot
• Real-World Data Analysis Projects
• Best Practices for Data Storytelling
• Improving Productivity with AI-Powered Analytics

Who this course is for:

Beginners who want to learn data analysis and visualization with AI tools without coding.
Business professionals looking to make faster, data-driven decisions using Microsoft Copilot.

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Course content

Introduction to Microsoft Copilot3 lectures • 10min

Foundations of Data Handling5 lectures • 28min

Automating Analysis with Copilot6 lectures • 40min

Data Visualization Principles5 lectures • 19min

Visualizing with Copilot4 lectures • 36min

Interactive Retail Dashboard Project4 lectures • 22min

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