Excel - Data Visualization and Info graphics

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

There is a saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. In Excel that means finding ways to represent numerical data pictorially so that your audience can quickly and easily understand it. It's often easier to look at a chart, a graph or something visual than to just look at a set of figures.

Until a few years ago it was enough to take a set of numbers and create a bar chart or pie chart. Although, in the right situation these traditional charts are still appropriate, things have moved on and we're constantly hearing words like Data Visualization and Infographic.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

It's time to get your Excel-related business and communication skills up to date and learn how to use it to present data in the modern world.

AREAS COVERED

Charting 101 - create a basic chart
From drab to fab - enhance and customize a basic chart
Combination charts - line and bar in a single chart
Dynamic charts - automate adding new data to a chart
Creating in-cell Sparkline charts
Creating infographics with Excel
Using Conditional Formatting to present data visually
3D Map - presenting geographic data in a visual way
An introduction to the Power View add-in

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this advanced Excel Training you’ll learn how to create and enhance the appearance of traditional charts such as bar charts. You’ll also learn how to create Sparkline charts (really useful in dashboards), infographic-style charts and how to represent data in a visual way without using the charting features at all.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

This training is aimed at users who have little or no knowledge of how to produce visuals in Excel. Attendees should be familiar with how to navigate around an Excel workbook and how to enter and edit data.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. His expertise and experience covers creating and delivering training courses, writing training materials and recording and editing video-based tutorials.

He is a subject matter expert in a range of Microsoft technologies and has also worked extensively with Mac OSX and Mac-related software since 2006, however, his passion is for all-things-Excel.

Mike is a Fellow of ‘The Learning and Performance Institute’ and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors.

In addition to training, he designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.