Microsoft Excel: Advanced Dashboard Design (Project-Based!) (Udemy.com)
Learn advanced Excel data visualization & dashboard design skills and build unique, hands-on projects for your portfolio
Created by: Maven Analytics
Last updated June 2026
What you will learn
- Build stunning, professional-quality dashboards in MS Excel (from scratch!)
- Review key data visualization best practices and dashboard design principles
- Apply powerful techniques for transforming raw data into beautiful, interactive visuals
- Learn the same tools used by professional data analysts, data scientists and business intelligence professionals
- Work through 4 unique, hands-on course projects in Excel
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Overall Score : 98 / 100
Course Description
This is a hands-on, project-based course designed to teach you advanced data analytics, data visualization and storytelling principles, along with powerful techniques for creating dynamic, interactive Microsoft Excel reports and dashboards.
We'll start by reviewing data visualization best practices, including tips for selecting the right visuals, eliminating clutter, focusing attention, and telling data-driven stories. From there we'll introduce dashboard design principles, and share frameworks for defining clear objectives, identifying effective metrics and visual elements, and leveraging concepts like reading patterns and Gestalt principles to optimize layout and flow.
Throughout the course you'll practice applying these data analysis and visualization techniques to a series of unique, real-world projects and scenarios:
Maven Music
Create a visual showing the evolution of the music industry and the impact of digital formats
Maven Careers
Build a dashboard to explore salary and employment data across key industries in the US
Maven Toys
Design a monthly KPI dashboard for sales managers to track regional performance
Maven Hotel Group
Visualize hotel booking data to show key cancellation patterns and business insights
By the end of the course, not only will you have unique, professional-quality MS Excel dashboards to add to your portfolio, but you'll have gained the knowledge and confidence to apply these same concepts to your own spreadsheets.
If you're ready to build the exact skills you need to create stunning, high-quality spreadsheets and dashboards in Excel, this is the course for you!
Join today and get immediate, lifetime access to the following:
6+ hours of high-quality video
Dashboard Design PDF ebook
Downloadable Excel project files & solutions
Expert support and Q&A forum
30-day money-back guarantee
Happy learning!
-Enrique (Certified Excel Expert & Instructor, Maven Analytics)
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"At the first part I just said to myself, 'Wow, Excel is capable of that? It's amazing!' Then at the second part I told myself 'This guy is doing magic!', and now I feel like I'm capable of doing the same. I can't wait to dive into the other courses!"
- Judit B.
"Excellent from start to finish. I picked up a bunch of techniques that will be useful in the workplace, from new chart templates to some very cool advanced visualizations. I loved all of it!"
- Robert C.
"Excellent material that I apply to my daily use of Excel. I consider myself an Excel professional, yet I picked up dozens of new tips and techniques. Wonderful course, well-presented and well-explained."
- Jeffrey P.
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Instructor Details
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4,868 Reviews
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Reviews
By Christian Rocque on 11/1/2025
This course nails what most Excel trainings miss — real dashboard thinking. It’s not just about formulas and charts; it’s about why you’re building them. The instructor walks through purpose, metrics, visuals, and layout with clarity and just enough challenge to make it stick. The guided projects are practical and well thought out. By the end, you’re not just decorating spreadsheets — you’re communicating insight.
By Nobin Pradhan on 5/12/2025
I have been using Maven Analytics' courses for quite some time now. They are the best as each course handholds people like me who are uninitiated in the areas of pivot table, data visualisation and more. The tutors or the coaches make you understand difficult concepts very clearly. So, after buying three courses of Maven Analytics, I was exploring the possibility to learn Excel based Dashboards. The moment I noticed there is a course on the subject offered by Maven Analytics, I grabbed it and it was worthwhile to learn this course. Armed with this course having been learnt, I will be adding value to my clients' business.
By Felix Varghese on 2/12/2025
Yes overall it was good and thought provoking learned a lot of tips on how to chart. i would recommend for last example on hotels to explain more in detail how you got to the lost revenue mathematically and offered the solution to overbook to cover losses, even at the end i didn't grasp the logic thoroughly, not all of us are from the hotel industry business so I had to assume the recommendation works.
By Hank Grimes on 9/6/2023
This was a truly amazing experience for me. I actually thought I knew a few things about Excel, but Enrique just took me to "a-whole-nother" level. I couldn't be more excited about the possibilities for applying my new skills in the workplace, and I can't wait to learn even more. Maven Analytics, here I come! Oh, and Enrique, you absolutely ROCK!
By Sabrina Pons on 7/26/2023
This is the best Excel Dashboard course out there. I had previously tried other courses that focused too much on Excel formulas, so I eventually lost interest. This course goes straight to the point into best practices regarding Dashboard readability and data visualization. Enrique still takes the time to review the formulas he uses, but doesn’t spend too much time on it, which is great. Excellent course!
By Jugdesh Rajpal on 4/27/2023
Thank you for an excellent, clear and understandable rendition of this course. Your expert knowledge on the subject covered other important areas of excel which was more than i expected!! This course has given me the confidence to produce world-class dashboards for my Company and has enhanced my career. Thank you ...will be sure to visit other courses by the presenter.
By Ping-Yen Chen on 2/15/2023
Great course. Projects are based on step-by-step guidance/explanation for building a high-quality dashboard. No fancy functions/formulas were used (only up to intermediate-level functions such as Index, Match, and Vlook). Both theory, logic, and practice are perfectly combined. Highly recommend it to someone who is trying to "WOW" someone in their office space!
By Pascal Gibert on 11/1/2022
Very different approach to Excel that I am used to. I am more a Pivot table kind of person while the instructor's approach is more based on calculations for preparing the data. I understand why even if it's very different than my approach. Learned a lot in the process. Don't know yet if I'll switch my approach but willing to give it a try. Good class. Excellent instructor.
By Clayton A on 4/28/2022
This is a stellar course on data visualization! It has a great cadence and is filled with tips to keep you on the top of your game. Enrique does a great job of keeping you engaged as he goes from thought to finished dashboards. I highly recommend this course to anyone that wants to upgrade their dashboard skills.
By Lauren Richard on 11/26/2021
EXCELLENT COURSE! Another great one from the Maven team. The course was clear, concise, but very thorough. The hands on projects did a great job of driving the points home while affording you the ability to make beautiful dashboards as you followed along. I will reference this course again. Easily one of my favorite courses.












