This 5-day training course is designed to give participants practical skills in organizing, cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data using Excel’s advanced data management tools.

The course combines instructor-led sessions, hands-on exercises, and real-world case studies that help participants learn how to structure, clean, transform, and analyze complex data sets.

This course is ideal for professionals working in business, finance, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), research, data analysis, or any role requiring streamlined data processes.

Key Skills Covered

• Efficient data entry, organization, formatting, and structuring
• Data cleaning and transformation: correcting errors, handling dates/times, cleaning text, reshaping data, using transformation tools
• Advanced formulas/functions: array formulas, dynamic arrays, lookup, logical, statistical, and financial functions
• Data consolidation and integration: using tools to integrate and summarize data
• Data analysis and statistical techniques

Duration

5 days

Who Should Attend This Course?

• Business professionals
• Market research specialists
• M&E professionals
• Researchers
• Project and program managers
• Anyone seeking to improve proficiency in Excel for data management and visualization

Course Objectives

By the end of this 5-day training, you will be able to:

• Organize and structure datasets properly
• Clean, validate, and transform raw data
• Use advanced formulas and dynamic functions
• Consolidate multiple datasets efficiently
• Perform foundational data analysis and summarization

Course Requirements

• Proficiency in English
• Basic computer literacy
• Familiarity with Excel (entering data, basic formulas)
• Access to a laptop with Excel installed

Training Approaches

• Interactive lectures
• Live demonstrations
• Hands-on exercises
• Group discussions
• Real-world case studies
• Knowledge checks and quizzes
• Collaborative group work