Spreadsheets and data analysis tools
Courses on working with data, including Excel.
We use the MyEd Event Booking channel to manage our event bookings. If you don't have access to this channel, or don't know how to use it, see our MyEd Event Booking help page.
If you are unable to attend a course you have booked, please cancel your place through the MyEd Event Booking channel or by contacting IS Skills. Attendance is recorded, and failure to attend on the day without prior notice may affect your future bookings.
For over-subscribed courses we frequently offer standby places to people on the waiting list. If you are not in attendance before the course starts, your place may be reallocated as a standby.
Course list
Our courses normally become available for booking approximately five weeks before the event date.
- Excel 2010: Absolute Beginners
- Introduction to Visualizing Data in ArcGIS
- Power Hour: Filters & Pivot Tables in Excel 2010
- Using EDINA Digimap
Excel 2010: Absolute Beginners
| Description | This course gives a good grounding in the basics of using Excel 2010, and is intended for beginners or people with little prior experience. It covers:
Prerequisites: A general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system environment |
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| Bookings | There are currently no events scheduled for this course. Please check back later. |
Introduction to Visualizing Data in ArcGIS
| Description | The afternoon GIS course focuses on practical issues of importing spatial data into desktop mapping packages and adding attribute data to a base map, rather than spatial analysis. Intro to GIS, converting data for import, thematic mapping (adding point data) and making choropleth maps from Census data are covered. Prerequisites: Users must be registered for Digimap |
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| Bookings | There are currently no events scheduled for this course. Please check back later. |
Power Hour: Filters & Pivot Tables in Excel 2010
| Description | This hour long taster provides a demonstration on using Pivot Tables to analyse data in Excel 2010. We also look at using filters to control what you see when working with a spreadsheet. |
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| Eligibility | All staff All alumni PGT students PGT and PGR students Staff and Visitor Staff MVM LittleFrance LLC All staff with job categories CLINICAL ACADEMICS IT ACADEMIC (and all visiting staff) All staff with job categories CLINICAL ACADEMICS ACADEMIC IT (and all visiting staff) All staff in units S21 All staff (excluding visitors) |
| Date | Thursday 07-Jun-2012, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| Venue | Central Area |
| Bookings | This event is full. If you are eligible, you can Book a place on a waiting list for this course. |
| Eligibility | All staff All alumni PGT students PGT and PGR students Staff and Visitor Staff MVM LittleFrance LLC All staff with job categories CLINICAL ACADEMICS IT ACADEMIC (and all visiting staff) All staff with job categories CLINICAL ACADEMICS ACADEMIC IT (and all visiting staff) All staff in units S21 All staff (excluding visitors) |
| Date | Tuesday 28-Aug-2012, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| Venue | Room 1.09, Meeting Suite, first floor, Main Library, George Square Central Area |
| Bookings | This event is not yet open for booking. Please check back later. |
Using EDINA Digimap
| Description | The morning Digimap course involves using the EDINA Digimap online service, e.g. how to make a map, save and print, using the advanced services, e.g. Gazetteer, understanding OS grid references, using Digimap Carto to customise online maps, and Digimap download (as preparation for an afternoon course 'Introduction to visualizing data in ArcGIS'). Prerequisites: Users must be registered Digimap users |
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| Bookings | There are currently no events scheduled for this course. Please check back later. |
This article was published on Aug 11, 2011