What are the chart types I will learn in this course?

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What are the chart types I will learn in this course?

Excel offers the following major chart types. All of these are covered in this course

• Column Chart

• Line Chart

• Pie Chart

• Doughnut Chart

• Bar Chart

• Area Chart

• XY (Scatter) Chart

• Bubble Chart

• Stock Chart

• Surface Chart

• Radar Chart

• Combo Chart

• Pivot Chart

• Sparklines

And many other creative ones :)

How are charts useful in Excel?

A chart is a tool you can use in Excel to communicate data graphically. Charts allow your audience to see the meaning behind the numbers, and they make showing comparisons and trends much easier.

What are the benefits of using charts in Excel?

Excel charts allow spreadsheet administrators to create visualizations of data sets. By highlighting a set of data within an Excel spreadsheet and feeding it into the charting tool, users can easily create various types of charts in which the data is displayed in a graphical way.

This course will answer all the questions that would pop up while you set to visualize your data using Excel charts such as:

How do you make Excel charts look better?

How do you format a chart in Excel?

What are the different elements of charts?

How do I make those awesome infographics that I see in fancy magazines and TV reports?

How do I create a comparison chart in Excel?

What is the best chart to use for comparison?

And many more...

How is this course different from other resources available online?

Most courses cover only teach how to draw different types of charts in Excel. The main point is missed. The main point of creating a chart is that you want to convey a message or tell a story using the chart. In this course, once you have learnt all the charting tools, you will also learn how you should create a chart. How you can highlight your message and avoid clutter in the chart, so that when your audience looks at the chart, the message is clearly conveyed to them.

Who this course is for:

• Anyone curious to master charts in excel from beginner to advanced in short span of time

Course content

• Introduction and basics
  • Welcome to the Course!
  • Why are charts used?
  • Course Resources
  • Categories of messages that can be conveyed
  • Quiz
  • Elements of charts
  • The Easy way of creating charts
  • Quiz 1
• Most important Charts & Best practices
  • Bar and column charts
  • Formating charts
  • Exercise 1: Bar and Column Charts
  • Best Practices: Bar Chart
  • Line Charts
  • Quiz
  • Avoiding the Spaghetti plot
  • Exercise 2: Line Charts
  • Area Charts
  • Pie and Doughnut Charts
  • Why we should avoid Pie charts!
  • Exercise 3: Pie Charts
  • Quiz
  • Scatter plot or XY chart
  • Exercise 4: Scatter plot
  • Frequency Distribution and Histograms
  • Exercise 5: Histogram
  • Waterfall chart
  • Exercise 6: Waterfall chart
  • Hierarchy Charts: Sunburst and Treemap
  • Exercise 7: Hierarchy charts
  • Combination charts
  • Exercise 8: Combination Charts
  • Quiz
  • Highlighting chart message
  • Eliminating Distractions from the Graph
  • Avoiding clutter
  • [Optional] Test for your general excel knowledge
• Pivot charts
  • Pivot Charts
  • Pivot Table Basics
  • Exercise 9: Pivot charts
  • Quiz 2
• Less used charts
  • Stock charts
  • Radar charts
  • Surface charts
  • Heatmaps
• Sparklines
  • Mini charts: Sparklines
  • Exercise 10: Sparklines
  • Practice Test 1
• Infographics using Excel charts
  • Creative Infographic 1
  • Creative Infographic 2
• Bonus Section
  • Bonus Lecture
• Appendix: Bonus Excel functionalities
  • How to solve transportation problem using Excel Goal-Seek
  • Income Tax calculation - Slabs based tax