You’ve made it through the Data Entry and Data Analysis (Beginner) portion of the course. With these skills you’ll be able to create your own dataset, analyze it, troubleshoot common problems (like the way excel handles time) and convey your results to scholars and members of the public through effective charts and graphs.

For many of you, this is all you’ll need to be able to do some very cool things with historical data and to create visualizations worth publishing.

But this need not be the end of your journey. For those of you who wish to learn some intermediate skills in excel and to begin to learn about databases, I’ve included a short follow up course designed for intermediate users who want to push their skills further.

The Data Entry and Data Analysis (Intermediate) portion of the course introduces a new suite of software (Microsoft Access), new tools in excel to create dynamic visualizations, and ideas behind database architecture and data normalization.