Welcome, Say hello to your classmates

Hello there,

Welcome to Chando.org Online Classroom. Please bookmark this page. You will be visiting it often in the next 6 months.

Few notices:

  • I have created separate pages for accessing your lessons and downloading content. Please take a minute and explore the links on sidebar area.
  • Go ahead and introduce yourself. Tell us your name, what you do and how you are planning to use Chandoo.org classes.
  • Join our Excel School Alumni Linkedin Group. Get connected with other students

Know your teacher:

Purna Duggirala - Your TeacherHi all, My name is Chandoo. Well, actually, my name is Purna Duggirala. But my friends and family members call me Chandoo. You too can call me that.

I will be teaching you Excel, VBA, Power Pivot for the next 6 months and answering your questions.

I live in Visakhapatnam, India. It is a small town in the south east cost of India. I run my own Excel Consulting & Training business from here.

I am married to my college sweet-heart, Jo. We have 2 kids – twins. They are 3 years old now. And very busy running, ruining and rampaging around the house.

You can ask any questions related to class thru comments on that topic. You are also welcome to email me and share your experiences about our classes. Please write to me at chandoo.d@gmail.com.

What you should do Next?

Now your turn

Go ahead and say hello to rest of the class. 🙂

Author: Chandoo

My name is Chandoo. I am going to make you awesome in Excel, VBA, Dashboards, Power BI & Power Pivot and answering your questions. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. It is a beautiful, small city on the southern edge of the world. I run my own Excel Consulting & Training business from here. I am married to my college sweet-heart, Jo. We have 2 kids – twins. They are 10 years old now. They are busy creating new worlds with lego bricks or playing or learning. We (Jo &I) are busy with cooking, eating, walking, talking and reading.

1,201 thoughts on “Welcome, Say hello to your classmates”

  1. Hello, I am Viggu from Hyderabad, India. Very excited to be part of this learning group. Hoping that this Excel School and Powerbi course would improve my Data analytics skills. Good Luck to everyone and lets learn together, help each other 🙂

      1. Hello how do i write a formula, for the sales invoice data to find the invoiced records, and the amount is greater than ‘0’ and -values? Then find all the ‘0’ and – value amounts, compare them with another invoice with the same invoice number for example ‘0’ value invoice number? Trying to digest piece by piece.

        Thanks,
        A.

  2. Hello, I am Srini from Bangalore, India. Excited to be part of this learning group. Looking forward to learn the excel course to improve my data analytics skills. Let this be a journey of learning and sharing new insights to each other.

  3. Hi, my name is Eugene Haguma from Rwanda. I have always enjoyed Chandoo but now i look forward to getting to learn more from you Chandoo but also to be part of this incredible group of Excel enthusiasts from around the world.

  4. Hello, my name is Tayo, from London, and I’m the latest in a very loooong line of Excel Guru Master – Chandoo’s disciples 🙂 Looking forward to an Excel retreat in Middle Earth, NZ, where we shall all be cloaked in excel tapestry cowls and chant in foreign tongues (Xlookup, Concatenate, Power Pivot, Power Query, Power BI, Dax, Close and Load, etc) till we’re legally recognised as a religious sect. Afterall, if Jediism and Pastafarianism can be religions, why can’t Excelism? Hmm, maybe we need to work on the name.

  5. Hi
    My name is Utsav Chhawchharia from New Delhi. I run a chain of restaurants in Delhi and wish you use the excel anaytics skills to analyse and draw inferences from our CRM, Sales Data, Purchase Data to better understand consumer trends, reduce wastages and help me in making better decisions in business.

  6. Hello, I’m Thomas Eckersley, from South Western Pennsylvania in the USA. I’m a Gen Mgr of a Home Services Business and I’m excited to enhance my data analysis skills thru these course. Thanks for the opportunity to learn and grow.

  7. Hello, I’m Abraham Sholola, from North New Jersey in the USA. I work as a construction inspector, and I am looking forward to learning advanced excel to bolster my chances in transitioning into data analyst career path.

  8. Hello All, my name is Carl from the US and I’m just getting into excel and looking forward to learning more of excel and having the skillsets to transitioning into data analyst career path.
    Happy to be hear.

  9. Hello friends , I am Nidhi from Gurugram, India. I am restarting my career journey with data analytics and I firmly believe that excel school would we a great start. Let’s learn together.

  10. Hi there,

    I’m Sunitha Sapaliga. Enrolled in Feb 2022 but could not start learning due to family issues. I’m not sure if I’m late here or not.

    By the way, I live in New Zealand with my husband and two daughters and work as an accountant for an education firm.

    Hope to see you all in the online classroom.

    Regards
    Sunitha

  11. Hello, My name is Divya from Warangal. Am a software developer and wants to change my career path as Data Analyst. This is my first step, wish me luck 😉 Happy learning and I wish you all a very great success with the course 🙂

  12. Hello Friends,

    My name is Jay and I work in higher education in the US. Like a lot of you, I’m impressed with Chandoo’s content and ready to commit to a course I believe will provide the practice I need to really…Excel, haha. As some of you have indicated, this is my first step towards a career shift to become a data analyst as well. I plan to take Microsoft Excel’s MOD-201 exam in Feb. I’m also using ExcelExercises.com and Excel 365 Bible to supplement this course; the book’s great by the way. What else do you all recommend using to study Excel? Anyone planning to take the exam?

    Wishing you all the best of success,
    Jay

  13. Hello, my name is Nicole.
    I live in New York city. I am a paralegal and changing careers in Data Analytics. I will be starting a data camp on the 19th but wanted to get a solid foundation with Excel. I have watched a great deal of Chandoo’s videos and really liked his content, so I decided to take the plunge and purchase. I am wishing everyone success in the New Year.

  14. Hello everyone!

    I am Tanay Shah. I am an Academician. In my experience of last 8 years I found that Excel makes your work easy. Prof. Chandoo is my role model. I want to become expert in Excel so that I can pass on the same to my students.

  15. Hello all!

    My name’s David and i’m from Portugal. I’ve been working with data since 2020, only Excel, and i’m trying to up my game. Our professor is simply my addiction on youtube so i thought: “Why won’t i enroll his course”?

    And here i am.

    Thank you all

  16. Hello,
    My name is Carol. I work in Supply Chain and I am working forward to strengthening my excel skills so thar I can enhance my presentations.

  17. Hi everyone,
    This is Prasanna Lakshmi. I’m from Tamil Nadu, India. Currently living in Stockholm for the past 1 year. I’m working as a Data Analyst. I’m very excited to join Chandoo sir’s class as I have always enjoyed his way of teaching. Hoping to become awesome in Excel and Power BI.

  18. Hello from Maine, the northeastern-most state in the United States. After years of trying to piece together my excel knowledge through YouTube snip-its, taking the plunge! Excited to get started.

  19. Hi, I’m Dez, I reside in Charlotte North Carolina USA. I’m seeking to increase my marketable skills, so I’m looking to learn Power BI.

    Looking forward to the journey!

    Regards!

  20. Hiya..
    I’m Pujitha, I reside in Rugby UK. I’m seeking to increase my skills in data analytics and visualization, so I’m looking to learn Power BI.

    Looking forward to the journey!

    1. Hi Everyone! My name is Diane Amaya and I live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I too want to change careers to a data analytics. I work in Finance and need to improve my Excel skills. Wishing all of you success.

      Looking forward to learning lots!

  21. Hi all, My name is Isaiah and I live in Wisconsin US. I’ve been following Chandoo for a couple of years and always wanted to enroll his Excel and BI courses, but procrastination took the better of me due to fear of failure. I am happy to join this community and learn and also looking forward to switch careers. FYI, I’m a complete newbie and I will appreciate any help. Thank you!

  22. Hello, My name is Praneeth Kothamasu. I am a graduate student in Industrial Engineering at Clemson University, USA. I have been watching Chandoo on Youtube from the last two years and I found them awesome. I joined excel school to increase my excel skills to an extra mile and leverage these skills in my day to day life. Thanks!

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