Excel Data Analysis with Power Pivot

Overview

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Excel provides Power Pivot to help students organize, manipulate, and report on their data in the best way possible.

In this course, students gain a solid understanding of Power Pivot to maximize their effectiveness when analyzing data.

Who Should Attend

Students taking this course are experienced Excel users

who are seeking to advance their data-analysis capabilities by using Power Pivot.

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Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Power Pivot along with Microsoft Excel to analyze data from a variety of sources. You will: Get started with Power Pivot. Visualize Power Pivot data.

Work with advanced functionality in Power Pivot.

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Course Overview

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Shaping Data with Power Query
Using Multiple Data Sources
Transforming Columns and Rows
Splitting Columns
Replacing Values
Shaping leading and trailing data

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Data Modeling
Creating Keys and Relationships
Unidirectional and Bidirectional filtering
One to Many Relationships
Star Schema Basics
Snow Flake Schema Basics
Direct Relationships
Related Relationships
Inferred Relationships
Creating Facts
Creating Dimensions
Building Hierarchies

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Dimension Construction
Lookup-Type Dimensions
Time Dimensions
Junk Dimensions
DAX Formulas for Dimensions

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Measures
Creating simple measures
Sum(), Countrows(), Min(),Max()
Creating Intermediate Columns
Calculate(), TopN(),SelectColumns()
Creating Hierarchies

Creating Pivot Tables And Charts
Pivot Table Navigation
Hidden and Calculated Fields
Text Fields with the Measures
Hierarchical Navigation and Display

PowerView
Creating Visualizations with PowerView
Visualization Interaction

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