Excel: Data Visualization Crash Course
Andy Lanning has worked extensively with Microsoft Office products since the early-1990s. She has traveled the United States presenting at conference and classes to help attendees unlock the full potential of the most common office software programs faced daily in our lives: Microsoft.
Andy is a computer “nerd” and has been training individuals and groups since 1995. She has taught computer VoTech classes at both Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho, and is the owner of a computer consulting business. She is a Certified Microsoft Office Specialist and trains most Microsoft programs. With 20+years’ experience in the computer industry, Andy focuses every class on using software to solve common workflow issues.
Be prepared to learn more than you bargained for in her class. Andy always teaches the 5 Super Secrets to computers and believes firmly in efficiency training.
Software specialty areas include:
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher
- Excel topics: Charts, Formulas, Hidden Tools of the Trade, Data Analysis tools
- Office Processes: mail merges, forms, databases, data analysis
- Video Teleconference (How to use for meetings and remote training)
- Internet and E-mail
- Computer Basics
How data is presented can affect decision-making, and “Yes” it is your responsibility to present data in the best manner possible. Q: Are you serious about your data… or are you decorating? A: Find out in this webinar. This course will introduce the theory of looking at data with a new eye and mindset. It challenges the old-fashioned styles and rules. Data presentation will no longer look drab or regular, but instead, professional and interesting.
You will also learn some technical tips and tricks, for instance, one of the best-kept secrets about chart creation: How to do the work once, and use it over and over again.
Attend this webinar and you will see the difference and look at your own data presentation with new eyes! Data Visualization (Data Viz) is the visual transformation of a block of data and a simple chart, to an actual message, delivered in a “publish worth” format. The focus is on the message of the chart, and the presentation of the data.
Areas Covered
- Theory of Patterns in Data Presentation
- Chart Tools Ribbon
- Charting Tips, Tricks, Short Cuts
- Chart Elements and Color
- “Save As Template”
- Determine the appropriate chart type for your data
- Manipulate the chart for visual clarity
- Review and technically apply data presentation techniques
- Review tools that assist instead of a full chart: Conditional formats and Sparklines
Who Should Attend
Any person that is tasked with presenting data for reports or decision making
Why Should Attend
The goal of this webinar is to challenge the old belief that data is boring and to turn that belief into the excitement that data empowers the decision-makers with crystal clear messaging.
Have you ever looked at a confusing chart and wondered why you can’t understand what it’s telling you? The problem is NOT you. It is the chart. Attend this webinar and you will see side-by-side examples of good vs bad charts, you will see the difference between old-fashioned data layout and the new theory of data presentation. And you will view some technical sections inside Excel that will help you when it’s time to design your new chart.
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$200.00
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