Mon Excel Skills For Data Exploration PSO 11
Mon Excel Skills For Data Exploration PSO 11
Session 2
Common Excel Skills
for Data Exploration
2024.07
Quang-Khai Tran, Ph.D
Quang-Dao Tran, M.Sc
Ngoc-Thao Danh, MBA
Contents
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Contents
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Part I
Introduction 1. A Brief Introduction to DA
2. Overview of Excel
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Review: What is Data Analytics
Data analytics is the process of analyzing raw data in order to draw out
meaningful, actionable insights
(Source: https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/data-analytics/what-is-data-analytics/)
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Review: What is Data Analytics
Source: https://medium.com/codex/life-cycle-of-a-data-analytics-project-954d0e6926fe
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Review: 04 Types (levels) of DA
Source:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hindsight-insight-foresight-key-ingredients-effective-woods
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Part I
Introduction 1. A Brief Introduction to DA
2. Overview of Excel
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I. Introduction
2. Overview of Excel
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An important part of the Microsoft BASE
(2^20 by 2^14)
(from 2018)
Source: Excel vs. Google Sheets usage — nature and numbers | by Hjalmar Gislason
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I. Introduction
2. Overview of Excel
CSV file:
CSV file:
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I. Introduction
2. Overview of Excel
(and Excel)
Source: What are the differences between an Excel file and a CSV file?
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I. Introduction
2. Overview of Excel
Link: https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/data-analytics/data-analysis-in-excel 17
I. Introduction
2. Overview of Excel
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I. Introduction
2. Overview of Excel
Link: https://www.excel-easy.com/
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Contents
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Part II
Some Common 1. Filtering & Sorting
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Important Note: decimal format
1
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“ ” for decimal
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
- 02 sheets
- Main data: 1000 rows x 11 columns
- Products: 6 product lines
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Important Note: data types
Quantitative:
● discrete (rời rạc)
● continuous (liên tục)
● interval (khoảng)
⇒ structured data
Qualitative:
● nominal (định danh)
● binary (định danh True/False)
● ordinal (thứ tự)
⇒ unstructured data
(text, category, datetime)
Source: https://www.intellspot.com/data-types/
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
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Part II
Some Common 1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
1. Select columns
2. Home > Editing > Sort & Filter > Filter
(or Data > Sort & Filter > Filter)
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
➤ Further tip: Create a Drop-down menu with Data Validation for filtered data
Unique
values of
City
column
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
1. Filtering & Sorting
➤ Example: Combine SORT and FILTER to filter orders that are higher than 1000,
then sort by City
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Part II
Some Common 1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
by_col = TRUE
by_col = FALSE
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
=COUNTA(range or formula)
=UNIQUE(range)
Example
=COUNTA(UNIQUE(C2:C1001))
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
=COUNTIF(range, criteria)
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
Reference: https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/sumif.html
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
Source: https://blog.hocexcel.online
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
Reference: https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/averageif.html
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
2. Describe & Summarize
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Part II
Some Common 1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
Source: https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/6393-excel-vlookup-function.html
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
If 1 or TRUE
Search for the
closest value
Source: https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/6393-excel-vlookup-function.html
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
Example
Source: https://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/hlookup.php
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
Source: www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/excel-lookup-function/ 50
II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
How to look up for a value on the left column (rather on the right)?
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
[if_not_found] Where a valid match is not found, return the [if_not_found] text you supply.
Optional If a valid match is not found, and [if_not_found] is missing, #N/A is returned.
Specify the match type:
● 0 - Exact match. If none found, return #N/A. This is the default.
[match_mode] ● -1 - Exact match. If none found, return the next smaller item.
Optional ● 1 - Exact match. If none found, return the next larger item.
● 2 - A wildcard match where *, ?, and ~ have special meaning.
Specify the search mode to use:
● 1 - Search starting at the first item. This is the default.
● -1 - Reverse search starting at the last item.
[search_mode] ● 2 - Binary search that relies on lookup_array being sorted in ascending
Optional order. If not sorted, invalid results will be returned.
● -2 - Perform a binary search that relies on lookup_array being sorted in
descending order. If not sorted, invalid results will be returned.
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
3. VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP
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Part II
Some Common 1. Filtering & Sorting
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
4. PivotTable
Example:
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
4. PivotTable
Create a PivotTable:
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3
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
4. PivotTable
Some operations:
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
4. PivotTable
Some operations:
Average
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II. Some Common Excel Skills
4. PivotTable
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Contents
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Part III
1. Introduction
Visualizing data 2. Five basic charts
3. Using Pivot Charts
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III Visualizing data
1. Introduction
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III Visualizing data
1. Introduction
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpP0EbSMRpg&ab_channel=LeilaGharani
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III Visualizing data
1. Introduction
Example
Source: https://boostlabs.com/blog/10-types-of-data-visualization-tools/
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III Visualizing data
1. Introduction
Source: https://www.ataccama.com/platform/data-stories
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III Visualizing data
1. Introduction
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Part III
1. Introduction
Visualizing data 2. Five basic charts
3. Using Pivot Charts
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Line Chart & Area Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Line Chart & Area Chart
Source: https://www.exceltip.com/tips/the-area-chart-in-excel.html
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Bar Chart & Column Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Bar Chart & Column Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Bar Chart & Column Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Pie Chart & Donut Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Scatter Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Scatter Chart
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III Visualizing data
2. Five basic charts: Histogram Chart
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III Visualizing data
Further applications
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III Visualizing data
3. Using PivotCharts
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III Visualizing data
3. Using PivotCharts
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Thank you!
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