
Data is the present and the future. Most of us have an assumption that handling data and creating reports, tracking processes is a difficult task. My motive of this course is to bust this myth.
Google spreadsheet is a very handy tool to track all the processes, progresses and plans. It is very easy to learn and very interesting to implement.
By the end of this course, you will realize that the dashboards and reports you have been looking at, made by others, were so easy to make and so awarding to follow.
Automation of data is yet a great benefit of using google spreadsheet because it allows multiple stake holders to contribute at one place.
Welcome to the journey !!!!
Starting from level zero, we will create a gmail account and passing through Google Drive, we will land on to our first spreadsheet.
We will also look at options available for text formatting, like bold, italics, background color, font color, size etc.
After completing this video, you would be able to format text on the spreadsheet like changing font size, color, font, back ground color etc. This will help you in designing the report or dashboard, so that it is user friendly and soothing to the eyes.
Filter and data formatting, are tools for viewing data in an ordered way. For example, if you have 10,000 rows of data, that has list of schools in your country. Now if you want to see list of schools that are in your city, instead of going through entire list of the country, you will add filter of your city, and the list will now show schools of your city only.
Going forward, you will be learning about different functions available for use in google spreadsheet. If you have knowledge of Microsoft Excel, learning Google spreadsheet would be very easy as 90% of the functions are same.
In this video, we cover three functions:
These are widely used functions in reporting and dashboard creation.
This lesson covers three functions:
All the above functions works exactly the same way as SUM, SUMIF and SUMIFS, except, the result are averages in this cases.
Since we are learning on an actual sheet, I decided to provide you that sheet for practice. So this lecture will tell you how to share sheets with other and how to use sheets shared by others. Since many students would be accessing this sheet, I have shared as "View Only". You will make a copy of the sheet and use it for learning purpose. All the steps for how to do it, is covered in this lecture.
Coming back to functions, in this video, we will cover two variations of a function that enables you too count number of elements in a range.
Now we will start learning function that help you to edit strings. In this video, we have four such functions:
We will learn four functions in this video:
IF will allow us do multiple calculations based on conditions.
Since I am a full time Google Spreadsheet consultant, with clients all over the world, I know what are the things that are important and should be taught to students.
Google Spreadsheet is on of the most powerful tool developed by Google. It has such a vast use that almost any body in any field, can use it for some thing or the other. If you are a student, you can use it to record your readings of experiment, if you are a data analyst, you can do all analysis and automate it here, if you are a marketing or sales guys, you can have your own mini CRM set up in google sheet. The fact that it is online, adds a huge value as there is no need of having a special software and you can work on your data from any part of the world. Above all, it is free.
Google Sheet uses most of the function and formula used in Excel. So if you have worked on excel, it is a big advantage. However, for this course, prior knowledge of excel is not must, as I will start the course from level zero.
The target of this course is not to make you a spreadsheet genius, or to memorize you all the function, but to enable you to make tools that you can actually use to solve the surrounding problems. To make use of any tool or language, you do not need to memorize each and every feature of it. But all you need to know is what are the possibilities and how to google the answers. This course will focus on the same.
This course will be your starting point to be an automation expert, because automation is the thing in present world, and maximum efficiency of a process is achieved only if it is automated.
Here are some feedback from students, that describes the philosophy of this course: