
Format IMDb movies data in Excel by centering headers, applying borders, wrapping text, and setting date and currency formats; use shortcuts to navigate and edit cells for clean analysis.
Formulae start with an equal sign '='. Recall that:
Cells are named as a combination of the respective rows and columns i.e. the cell at the intersection of Column A and Row 2 is named as A2.
Formulae can use cell references. Copy and Pasting formulae adjust the input cells references appropriately.
Double Click on the Autofill square at the bottom right of a cell to fill an entire range. Excel is smart enough to change the input references for each cell.
Learn to filter and sort data in Excel to slice and dice movie lists by rating, genre, and box office, using drop-down filters, custom sorts, and multi-criteria sorting.
Learn to print an Excel sheet efficiently by choosing the right orientation, fitting columns on A4, using print preview and the control p shortcut, with gridlines, headings, and repeating headers.
Learn how to protect Excel workbooks and sheets with passwords, restrict edits, and create clear file names using timestamps to ensure secure, searchable data analysis reports.
Keyboard Shortcut (Windows) Meaning
Ctrl + C : Copy
Ctrl + V : Paste
Ctrl + X : Cut
Ctrl + Alt + V : Open Paste Special Dialog Box
Ctrl + Z : Undo last activity
Ctrl + Y : Redo Last Activity
Ctrl + ↑ : Go to the top of a column
Ctrl + ↓ : Go to the bottom of a column
Ctrl + → : Go the right(end) of a row
Ctrl + ← : Go to the left (beginning) of a row
Shift + Arrow Keys (← ↑ → ↓) : Select cells in the direction of movement
Shift + Ctrl + Arrow Keys (← ↑ → ↓) : Select all cells in the direction of the arrow keys
E.g.: Shift + Ctrl + ↓ : Select all cells from current cell to the bottom of the column
Ctrl + S : Save
Ctrl + P : Print
Ctrl + Shift + L : Filter
Discover shortcuts by using Alt keys
○ E.g.: Alt + P + V - Show Print Preview
○ E.g.: Alt + H + S + F - Filter
Telemarketing Case Study:
The datasets contains information of abount 45000 customers and their historical reponse to products offered by bank.The objective is the find those segments who are likely to purchase bank products in future.
This is the most common analytics across the industries . The usual purpose is the increase the sales of the products and reduce the cost of marketing . Instead of calling everyone and trying to sales , the tele-marketing channels will call only few customers and make as much sale.
Explore the banks' telemarketing dataset to identify customer profiles most likely to buy, using demographic data and contact details. Predict future campaign responses to guide acquisition and marketing insights.
Explore when to use column, line, bar, pie, and scatter plots in Excel to reveal trends, compare categories, and enhance readability for actionable insights.
Analyze fraud claims in life insurance using bar plots and box plots to reveal age-based patterns and distinguish fraudulent from legal claims.
Learn to use pivot tables to compute and format average response rates as a percentage by categories such as marital status and education, enabling quick, formula-free data analysis.
Create pivot tables to summarize data, drag the response rate to values, and apply conditional formatting to highlight trends and exceptions; ensure the sample count exceeds 30 for population-level analysis.
Use vlookup to merge data from two sheets by matching a common column, returning salaries for occupations with exact match and absolute references.
Name the salary column on sheet one as salary one, then use Vlookup to look up values from that named range, simplifying the formula.
Learn to perform vlookup from a different workbook, concatenate marital and education data into a single key, and correctly reference lookup columns and directories to determine qualified yes or no.
Identify common Excel errors and fix them with error-handling and default hyphen values, build computed columns like balance, and debug formulas by tracing dependencies.
This investment case study uses company, investment, and mapping data to identify top English-speaking countries and leading company categories for a 5-15 billion USD startup investment.
Discover why sql is a key in data science, as analysts tame massive data from platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail, unlock insights, and boost earning potential beyond 100k.
Explore the SQL concept and how a database engine retrieves data from a server in response to a command, with examples illustrating data manipulation language and common definition language.
Learn to connect Python and R to an RDBMS, run SQL queries, and extract data for analysis and visualization using relevant libraries.
Explore how machine learning uses historical data to predict loan defaults and classify emails as spam, while distinguishing regression and classification (supervised) from clustering (unsupervised).
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1. Learn basic and advanced functionalities in Excel.
2. Learn how to do data manipulation and analysis to solve real world business problems using case studies.
3. Start using pivot tables and Vlookup like a pro.
4. Start using built-in formulae in excel for the data analysis.
5. Learn how to find interesting trends in the real world datasets.
6. Increase data literacy.
7. Learn to make various charts for effective data visualizations.
8. Learn how to infer hidden insights from data using plots.
Real World Case Studies include :
Acquisition Analytics on the Telemarketing datasets : Find out which customers are most likely to buy future bank products using tele channel.
Investment Case Studies: To identify the top3 countries and investment type to help the Asset Management Company to understand the global trends
Data Analysis on Ireland Loan Datasets : Find out which customers are good or bad and who are likely to repay the loan.