Data analysis to the MAX() by Felienne Hermans
School: DelftX
Course Code: EX101x
Classes Start: 6 Apr 2015
Course Length: 8 weeks
Estimated effort: 4-6 hours per week
From the webpage:
EX101x is for all of those struggling with data analysis. That crazy spreadsheet from your boss? Megabytes of sensor data to analyze? Looking for a smart way visualize your data in order to make sense out of it? We’ve got you covered!
Using video lectures and hands-on exercises, we will teach you techniques and best practices that will boost your data analysis skills.
We will take a deep dive into data analysis with spreadsheets: PivotTables, VLOOKUPS, Named ranges, what-if analyses, making great graphs – all those will be covered in the first weeks of the course. After, we will investigate the quality of the spreadsheet model, and especially how to make sure your spreadsheet remains error-free and robust.
Finally, once we have mastered spreadsheets, we will demonstrate other ways to store and analyze data. We will also look into how Python, a programming language, can help us with analyzing and manipulating data in spreadsheets.
EX101x will be created using Excel 2013, but the course can be followed using another spreadsheet program as well.
The goal of this course is it to help you to overcome data analysis challenges in your work, research or studies. Therefore we encourage you to participate actively and to raise real data analysis problems that you face in our discussion forums.
Want to stay up to date with the latest news on EX101x and behind the scenes footage? We have a Twitter account -> @EX101x
If your boss is a spreadsheet user (most of them are), imagine being able to say that not only does Mahout say this is the answer, so does their spreadsheet. 😉
I have never seen Felienne speak in person but I have seen enough videos to know she is a dynamic speaker. Enjoy!