Data
Free
Singapore (Online)
Monday, 07 October, 2024
7
–
9
am
EDT
Clean and Prepare Data in Excel | FREE Data Skills
About This Class
Pop quiz: How useful is dirty data?
If you answered, "Not at all," you got it right. Now that you’ve that basic principle down, it’s time to clean and prepare your data for analysis.
This free, two-hour session will teach you best practices for handling null values and cleaning your data for analysis, then give you hands-on practice using basic formulas and functions like trim, text, average, and count to make sure your data sparkles.
Don't miss our next session where you’ll get practice with Hands-on Excel Analytics. We’ll take your freshly cleaned dataset and begin analysis using popular methods like PivotTables and VLOOKUP to start to develop insights into what the data is saying. We’ll see you there.
Takeaways
- Learn common data cleaning actions like reformatting dates, removing duplicates, and combining data sources.
- Practice applying basic Excel functions and formulas like trim, text, average, count, and more to get your data ready for analysis.
Preparation
- This is a beginner-friendly series, so no prior knowledge is necessary.
- You’ll need an Excel account if you’re planning to follow along live. If you don’t have one already, you can sign up for a Free 1-Month Trial of Microsoft 365. Keep in mind, this part is optional.
- A recording of this session will be sent via email at the end of the full Skill Seeker series.
- This session will be held in a Zoom webinar, so your mic and camera will be off. We’ll interact through the chat, Q&A, and reactions.
About the Instructor
Preriit Souda
Data Science Director, Kantar
Preriit Souda is a Director: Data Science working for Kantar TNS UK. Kantar TNS is a leading global marketing research agency within WPP. Preriit’s key focus is to help organisations answer difficult strategic questions by unravelling explicit and implicit human expression through mining social media data.
He has provided real-time analysis of industrial actions, reaction to TV shows, and impact of negative PR. His work has helped develop new products and track brand reputation using social media data alongside more traditional market research approaches such as Survey, focus groups, IOT, Google search data, weather, CRM and mobile data.
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