From the course: Microsoft Copilot Essentials Professional Certificate by Microsoft Press

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Learning objectives

Learning objectives

In this lesson on Copilot for analysis, you use Copilot to explore data and research questions without becoming a full-time data scientist. The sub-lesson on text-to-analysis prompts in Excel begins by using natural language prompts to create formulas, summarize tables, and highlight trends directly from your existing notebooks. lesson on natural language queries explores text-to-analysis workflows further. You ask questions about your data in plain language, generate charts and pivot tables, and use Copilot to propose follow-up questions, so you see the story behind the numbers rather than just staring at rows and columns. The sub-lesson on exploratory analysis workflows builds repeatable patterns, from quick data checks in Excel to deeper analysis loops that you can run whenever you're facing a new dataset. The sub-lesson on using Copilot and Edge for research and synthesis brings the browser into the mix. You use Copilot to research topics, compare sources, and synthesize what you…

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