Building a Dynamic Heat Map in Excel

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Free Online Course: Building a Dynamic Heat Map in Excel provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Building a Dynamic Heat Map in Excel is taught by Chris Dutton.

Overview
  • Learn how to create a dynamic heat map in Excel with conditional formatting and advanced lookup and reference functions.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you should know before watching this course
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Project Setup
    • Downloading the dataset
    • Getting familiar with the data
    • Project goal and creating a roadmap
    2. Date and Time Functions
    • DATEVALUE
    • Categorization
    • WEEKDAY
    • VLOOKUP
    • EOMONTH
    • YEARFRAC
    3. Conditional Statements and Logical Operators
    • True Season
    • Accident type
    • Using ISBLANK
    4. Building a Basic Heat Map
    • Heat map framework
    • COUNTIFS
    • Color scale formatting
    • Aggregate data SUM
    • Quick QA: Identifying and eliminating inaccurate data
    5. Adding Dynamic Filters to the Map
    • Data validation
    • Accident type COUNTIFS
    • SEASON filter
    6. Creating Formula-Based Formatting Rules
    • Using the NOW and TODAY functions
    • Formatting with ROW and COLUMN functions
    • Highlighting a current moment in time
    7. Wrapping Up
    • Adding the finishing touches
    • Accident analytics
    • Extension: Power Map
    Conclusion
    • Next steps