Every business generates data. But whether you're able to turn that into useful insights depends on your ability to process, manipulate, and ultimately translate that data. Whether you're working for a company or running your own, being able to make better decisions requires you to be able to analyze and interpret data. What data do you need? How do you prep that data? How do you analyze it to answer specific questions? In this course, we're going to show you step-by-step, exactly how to do that, by starting with the very basics. Why Microsoft Excel? This course is as much about Excel, if not more, than data analysis concepts and techniques. Why? Excel is still the most popular tool used by analysts in all industries, across all roles. It's used by financial analysts, marketing analysts, sales analysts, and of course, data analysts. Yes, there are many tools out there but if you learn and master the core concepts and techniques of data analysis in Excel, you'll be able to apply your knowledge to a broad range of applications. Don’t underestimate Excel--a single worksheet can technically hold more than 17 BILLION data points (granted, it will make your computer REALLY slow). Fortunately, most of us running analysis will need to process far fewer data points than that. Still, it speaks to the power of the program. Who this course is for: Anyone who wants to learn the core concepts of data analysis in the Excel environment Anyone who wants to learn to apply data analysis techniques using Excel Anyone who wants to become proficient at using Excel for data/business analysis Anyone who wants to be able to turn data into business insights in Excel Anyone who wants to be able to run simply to sophisticated analysis of data using Excel Anyone who wants to learn the most frequently used Excel functions and techniques used by analysts