Excel for Everyone edX - online learning platform

Overview

The Excel for Everyone programme in collaboration with University of British Columbia - UBCx is a Professional Certificate. 

Key Facts

The world runs on data more than ever before. Regardless of your profession, data administration, analysis and visualization have become critical skills that are in high demand. Whether you need to make business projections, store inventory, conduct research or gather market intelligence, the ability to make sense of data is increasingly essential.

Everyone recognises Microsoft Excel, yet few people use it to its full potential. It’s ubiquity and ability to effectively manage large amounts of data make it an ideal data analysis tool that offers something for everyone. From the fundamentals to advanced use cases, Excel can be your ally when it comes to streamlining tasks and delivering valuable, professional data insights. In this program, even beginners can work their way up to extracting actionable intelligence from raw data, by using Excel’s powerful tools for data manipulation.

Job Outlook

• More than 8 in 10 middle-skill jobs (82%) require digital skills, spreadsheets and word processing remain the baseline for digital skills, with 78% of middle-skill jobs calling for these at a minimum. (Capital One and Burning Glass)
• Two of the LinkedIn’s Top 10 Hard Skills for 2020 - Analytical Reasoning (#3) and Business Analysis (#6) - rely heavily on data analysis abilities.
• Between 2017 and 2020 there was a 750% increase in Canadian job postings that ask for ‘Data Analysis’ as a hard skill (Emsi)
• Excel remains the most popular tool for market research, used by 86% of researchers.