What you’ll learn
- Three courses pair ChatGPT with Excel data exploration/storytelling, formula and visualization work, and a broad prompt-engineering course.
- The first course covers data description, extraction, cleaning, dataset merging and narrative summaries
- The second includes formula creation/testing, image-to-spreadsheet work and VBA/macro automation
- The final course broadens to prompt patterns and prompt-based applications.
What does the learning look like?
- The listed applied project uses real-world datasets to build visualizations, complex formulas and data stories
- Examples include a sales-trend chart, dynamic budget allocations, combining customer/sales data and turning a sketch or whiteboard image into a spreadsheet.
Example to try
Make sense of a spreadsheet
- 01Start with
A small table of expenses
- 02Make a first pass
Clean data + a useful formula
- 03Make it yours
Check row counts and totals
Use a fictional example to practise the workflow.
Cost, access and setup
Course cost
- Listed as included in Coursera Plus. Check your subscription for access.
What you’ll need
- Basic Excel familiarity is expected (e.g., entering spreadsheet data).
- Listed software includes Excel and ChatGPT
How you’ll learn
- Three-course specialization.
- Listed component estimates are 3h, 4h and 19h (26h combined)
- The 19-hour general prompt-engineering component is a substantial share of the bundle.
- Self-paced Coursera specialization with separately structured courses.
Certificate
- A shareable career certificate from Vanderbilt University is listed for completion of the specialization
Help along the way
- Hands-on projects and course assignments
Instructor
- Dr.
- Jules White is named as instructor
- Vanderbilt University is the listed provider.