What you’ll learn
- Five modules: data preparation/error identification
- Missing values/duplicates
- Data-type conversion/standardization
- Text manipulation/column operations
- Prompt design for repeatable analysis workflows
- Course outcomes include spotting bad data, resolving errors, transforming data and making spreadsheets analysis-ready
What does the learning look like?
- Twenty AI-graded assignments are listed.
- Page includes hands-on activities/debriefs for error correction, data error identification, Copilot activation, transformation and data preparation
Example to try
Make sense of a spreadsheet
- 01Start with
A small table of expenses
- 02Make a first pass
Clean data + a useful formula
- 03Make it yours
Check row counts and totals
Use a fictional example to practise the workflow.
Cost, access and setup
Course cost
- Copilot software license is separate and required according to page.
What you’ll need
- Microsoft Excel and Copilot in Excel.
- Course materials state Copilot license required
- Page links a free 30-day trial for people without Microsoft 365 Personal or Family.
How you’ll learn
- The five module estimates are 5+3+3+3+4 hours (18 hours).
- Videos/readings/assignments are components of module study estimates, not video runtime.
- Self-paced Coursera course, offered within multiple programs
- Enrollment asks learner to select a program.
Certificate
- Shareable Coursera course certificate listed
Help along the way
- Twenty assessments with AI-grading label
Instructor
- Microsoft is the listed publisher
- Individual instructor not identified in text.
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