Creating professional business charts

🎓 Course Title: Creating Professional Business Charts

🚀 Course Headline: Master the Art of Data Visualization with Our Expert-Led Course for Business Professionals!

🔥 Course Description:

Key Learnings:

• Diverse Chart Mastery: Dive into the world of essential business and finance charts, with a focus on the ones most crucial for management and executive decision-making. You'll learn about a total of 15 key charts, ensuring you have all the tools you need without the need for further specialization.
• Selecting the Right Chart: Learn the art of choosing the appropriate graph for your data, applying the best styles, and highlighting the most relevant insights, even in complex datasets.
• Step-by-Step Construction Guidance: With detailed instructions, you'll learn how to construct each chart from scratch, accompanied by valuable tips and tricks to format charts and structure underlying data effortlessly.
• Professional Standards: Elevate your charts to a professional standard that's ready for publication, using Excel's capabilities to their fullest potential. Every chart you create in this course is provided as a downloadable resource in a fully formed and publishable format.

Hands-On Learning:

• Real-World Applications: Understand not just the mechanics but also the practical applications of each graph/chart type within a business and finance setting.
• Versatile Data Handling: Learn how to handle both discrete and continuous data types, fitting them into various chart formats like column, bar, relative share, correlation, rating, ranking, and aggregation.
• From Basics to Advanced Techniques: Master well-known charts such as column and bar graphs, while also learning to construct lesser-known charts like Marimekko from the ground up in Excel with no external plugins required.

Charts Covered in this Course:

• 🏋️‍♂️ Stacked Column Charts
• 📈 Grouped Column Charts
• 🧮 Bar Charts
• 📊 Subcategory Variations on Bar/Column Charts
• 🔄 PivotChart Variation on Column Charts
• 🔀 Line Charts
• 📈 Combo Charts
• ⚪️ Scatterplots
• 🎉 Histograms (Pre and Post Excel 2016)
• 🍩 Doughnut Charts
• 🔗 Sunburst Charts
• 🌊 Waterfall Charts (Pre and Post Excel 2016)
• 📈 Bubble Charts
• 🎯 Radar Charts
• 🍫 Mekko Charts
• 🔥 Heatmaps
• ❌ (A gentle dissuasion from using) Pie Charts (We'll discuss why they're often not the best choice!)

Why Choose This Course?

This course is your gateway to creating professional, publication-ready charts with Excel. You'll learn not to settle for basic outputs but to go the extra mile in structuring and styling your charts to a professional business standard. With each chart you master, you're building a toolkit of data visualization skills that will set you apart as a professional who can make data meaningful and accessible to all stakeholders.

Join us now and take the first step towards becoming a data visualization expert! 🚀📈