Very informational and well-paced course. Really enjoyed watching the videos, practicing on the downloadable worksheets and challenging the quizzes. The lecturer, Mr Sharad, is wonderful in his explanations. I'm interested to enroll in his other courses as I find his lessons easy to follow. One thing I had difficulty with though was understanding some of the quiz questions as they were worded ambiguously. Hope that can be improved on. Thank you!

Overall pleased with the content of this course. Most of the content was something you might already be familiar with, I was. You will be introduced to the Data Analysis Toolkit in Excel. And anyway, to complete the entire specialisation is the goal. Prof Borle's delivery was on point (would suggest you watch on 2x). The only complain is that the audio is supressed. You wont be able to hear distinctly without headphones or external speakers.

My college offered Excel, but it was stopped midway. But this course helped to pick up from where I stopped and go even further than what would have been taught at my college.

The videos were well done, and easily understandable, Though the questions were sometimes tricky. This is my first online course I have ever completed, and I'm really satisfied with the course.

If you want to learn excel, this is the right course for you.

This course is great! While i primarily came to learn VLookup & Pivot Tables, i learnt much more incl. scatter plots and histograms. Also the professor's step by step instructions is simply awesome. The exercises and tests were great too - some questions really challenge you! This is great course for someone who know basic excel and wants to take his/ her skills a notch higher. Thank you Rice University & Coursera.

It was a nice experience to going through the course. Though I usually use many formulas taught in this course but it helped me to get alternate method to apply the same. Moreover, in Pivot I got to know may other stuffs which I was not aware of. Overall, this course will definitely help me to carry out my excel task in a better way, specially in my job where I need to do a lot of analysis.

This is by far the best statistics class I've ever taken. It's easy to understand, practical, and yet thorough. I'm extremely grateful this series of classes exists. It's statistics for humans, not mathmaticians. I can use it immediately in my work to feel more confident in the concepts I'm presenting. It's high quality production value, too. Thank you so much for making this!

This provided me with better practice in VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP formulas than any other online course or tutorial I used. I chose this course as a first step in my journey to becoming a Data Scientist and it has given me enough confidence to continue on this path. The videos are long enough to provide the knowledge needed and I found the exercises and quizzes to be practical.

I enrolled in the course hoping to have a more advanced skills after, but I realized that it only discusses the basic concepts- which are something that I kind of already know. However, I realized that people, more often than not, forgets about the basics. This course has allowed me to refresh the basic concepts , giving me a more established foundation on Excel.

the course takes ALOT longer to complete than advertised. this is probably because the material is alien to the students - which is why they take the course in the first place. but i think students should be alerted that it can take CONSIDERABLY more time for those who are totally unfamiliar with Excel... the examples and training provided were excellent.

A good course for beginners who want to learn Excel, Explanations were very good and the concepts seems very easy and clear. Course coverage also is apt for people interested in business statistics as all the functions seems important. The quality of quiz can improve a little as some questions were not really clear, but otherwise everything was really good.

I love this course and the instructor. Great speaking voice, very clear and pleasant to listen to (very important).

I went through all the study examples and although some things were a bit above my head, I learned a lot. I was able to complete all the homework and now I'm determined to learn Excel and will take the course over again.

Thank you. Coursera

This course provided some basic insights on Microsoft Excel including the pivot table, pivot chart, histogram etc. One who's completely new to Excel can enroll in this course and learn a lot. The quiz questions were very much up to the mark and one really needs to understand each lesson clearly to answer those questions. Overall, it was a nice course!

The course is a good intro to basic data analysis. Power Pivot is touched on and basic but essential charting methods are also explained (I had not used these for some time so it was a welcome refresher). Overall it was an enjoyable experience and if you are a intermediate level user of Excel you should be able to complete the course rather quickly.

I have been procrastinating starting this course, but once I started I understood it was much better than other spoon feeding courses where basics are fed repeatedly. This course was a fulfilling one because I got to learn the important aspects of Excel and I believe it was highly beneficiary for starting advanced Excel course. happy Exceling!

It is an excellent course on using excel. The instructor has designed the course very well and explained the features of the software using some real life data and examples. It will be very useful for someone who is just starting to use excel. In this course, sufficient tools are introduced to do fairly complicated data analysis using excel.

Excellent course for student wants to learn how to use data available and interpret them into useful information. At the same time, you learn how to use some of MS Excel functionality and features. The presenter of the course had given a simple and clear explanation of the concept and principles of the statistical tools for data analysis.

I loved this course very very much. Very informative, and the instructor is amazing. He explained everything so crisp and in a easy to understand way. Many congratulations for the amazing course to the entire team and the Rice University. Please do come up with more courses like that, and if possible, free of cost. All the best.

The course is equipped with short quiz after each lesson which is very helpful to practice the knowledge we just received. The weekly quizzes are real tests that do not just ask you the thing the course has taught, but it pushed us to really think to modify the lesson we've learnt according to the question. Recommended course.

This is an excellent course; however, it is challenging. I haven't used Excel or worked in finance for many years. I found the need to go back and review the videos and transcripts many times.

In addition, Professor Sharad Borle is excellent -- he makes it look so easy. I now have a much greater appreciate for data analysis.

This course explains some more complicated functions really well. It shows a step-by-step program on how to achieve large quantity data analysis. The version of Excel used by the lecturer is only a bit old, which means that some puntiation within the formulas have changed, but overall a really good and easy to follow course!

AS for me , its pretty helpful for learning the excel basic knowledge, learner can download the material from sources and take the quiz. I'm not consecutive to study this course , sometime it will cost me a little bit time to review the previously content. If you wanna deeply study or get the certificate ,you need to paid.

I really enjoyed this course. The pace was very good, videos were clear and informative and tests helped me to memorise the lessons better. This course is a very good starting point for beginners when it comes to Excel and provided materials helped in constant working "side-by-side" with the professor. Thank you very much!

It was an amazing journey of learning & wisdom throughout this course. Course lecture videos were very crispy. Yes, but you must have basic proficiency in MS Excel before opting this course, if you have it, this course is fun for you. Mentor Sharad Borle was an great instructor for this course. Thanks #RICE UNIVERSITY.

This course is very helpful for every student. if I talk about my self so I learned so many things which I never learned before. Sharad you are one of the great instructors of Excel. I will recommend this course to my friend. Course Content was good and Exam and Quiz were tough but very helpful.

Thanks - Sharad Borle

This was one of the most relevant and well taught online classes that Iv'e taken. I only wish that it was more lengthy, and delved into even more sample practical applications of Excel. But thats not a complaint - just a reflection of how inspired and motivated I felt after completing it. Thank you Professor Borle!