Recommended Links

There are incredible resources for a motivated learner, and I love to share my favorites. While there are countless blogs and youtube channels, those listed below are those who are clear, helpful, and most important: succinct.

 
 
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EXCEL

  • Leila Gharani. Youtube channel link here. Truly one of the best - quick, instructional videos, helpful content, and I learn something new from every one of her posts.

  • Oz du Soleil. On Youtube, known as Excel on Fire. If you want to laugh while getting your mind blown with Excel tips, Oz is your man. Easily the most entertaining and yet still incredibly educational instructor on Excel out there. I would watch him talk about paint drying.

  • Trump Excel. A massive blog with posts updated regularly. A bit thick to wade through, but there’s a post here on just about everything there is.

 
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GOOGLE SHEETS

  • Ben Collins. The best blog for all things Google Sheets - offering both free and paid classes, a fantastic blog, and an actually useful Monday email list. Hosts the only “SheetsCon” there is, once a year.

  • The Google Sheets learning page itself. For once, the creators of a product actually have clean, written-out tutorials, complete with screenshots and highlighted areas. Best for beginners.

  • Spreadsheet Point. Another Google Sheets blog, a sister site to Trump Excel. Newer, but still generating some good content.

 
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DATA VIZ

  • Power BI: Guy in a Cube. The most accessible and easy to watch Youtube channel out there for PowerBI. Often includes Excel tips as a bonus.

  • Tableau: resources for Tableau are less concentrated in one place. The Tableau site itself has a nice learning section, and Udemy has a nice free course as well, and there are several crash-courses on Youtube if you do a quick search.

  • Qlik: a lesser-known but excellent free option, Qlik was my entry into the data viz world. Their learning page here is a great starting point.

  • More: there are so many data vizualization programs, if you have any resources that have been especially helpful for you (for anything here), let me know!

 
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OTHER

  • SQL: Datacamp has some of the best learning resources out there for anything related to coding. Their beginning SQL course is great - you actually code as you learn! Link here.

  • Google App Script: Learn Google Spreadsheets. This guy is amazing - everything you want to know about using this tool to its fullest potential. If you’re working in the Googleverse, and need to get some custom code done, this is the guy for you.