Data Analysis And Business Intelligence With Microsoft Excel

Data Analysis And Business Intelligence With Microsoft Excel, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.67, with 74 lectures, based on 436 reviews, and has 33222 subscribers.

You will learn about Use Power Query to pull external datasets into Excel, and transform them into whatever shape is needed for your analysis Master the art and science of Data Modeling in Excel, connecting your datasets from Power Query so they can be analyzed together Build "Power" Pivot Tables to rapidly extract insights from your Data Model, whether your data tables have 10 rows or 10 million Become proficient in the DAX formula language, to inject more sophisticated calculations and KPIs into your Pivot Tables than you even thought possible Polish your calculations into professional presentations with data visualization tools like Pivot Charts and conditional formatting Leverage Slicers and Timelines to engineer dynamic dashboards that maximize the amount of information you can present on a single screen Retain – AND build on – everything you've learned, by tackling dozens of hands-on exercises that cover every concept in the course This course is ideal for individuals who are Aspiring Analysts who want to take their careers to the next level by unleashing Microsoft Excel's Business Intelligence functionality to build data solutions that stand out and get noticed or Data Professionals who want to quickly augment their skills by mastering an easy to use, yet industrial-strength Business Intelligence toolset or Business owners or executives who want to empower their employees to deliver self-service Business Intelligence without buying expensive, specialized software or Any Excel user who wants to unlock the secrets of their data using the best-in-class analytical tools right in their Excel spreadsheet It is particularly useful for Aspiring Analysts who want to take their careers to the next level by unleashing Microsoft Excel's Business Intelligence functionality to build data solutions that stand out and get noticed or Data Professionals who want to quickly augment their skills by mastering an easy to use, yet industrial-strength Business Intelligence toolset or Business owners or executives who want to empower their employees to deliver self-service Business Intelligence without buying expensive, specialized software or Any Excel user who wants to unlock the secrets of their data using the best-in-class analytical tools right in their Excel spreadsheet.

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Title: Data Analysis And Business Intelligence With Microsoft Excel

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.67

Number of Lectures: 74

Number of Published Lectures: 74

Number of Curriculum Items: 74

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 74

Original Price: $79.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Use Power Query to pull external datasets into Excel, and transform them into whatever shape is needed for your analysis
Master the art and science of Data Modeling in Excel, connecting your datasets from Power Query so they can be analyzed together
Build "Power" Pivot Tables to rapidly extract insights from your Data Model, whether your data tables have 10 rows or 10 million
Become proficient in the DAX formula language, to inject more sophisticated calculations and KPIs into your Pivot Tables than you even thought possible
Polish your calculations into professional presentations with data visualization tools like Pivot Charts and conditional formatting
Leverage Slicers and Timelines to engineer dynamic dashboards that maximize the amount of information you can present on a single screen
Retain – AND build on – everything you've learned, by tackling dozens of hands-on exercises that cover every concept in the course

Who Should Attend

Aspiring Analysts who want to take their careers to the next level by unleashing Microsoft Excel's Business Intelligence functionality to build data solutions that stand out and get noticed
Data Professionals who want to quickly augment their skills by mastering an easy to use, yet industrial-strength Business Intelligence toolset
Business owners or executives who want to empower their employees to deliver self-service Business Intelligence without buying expensive, specialized software
Any Excel user who wants to unlock the secrets of their data using the best-in-class analytical tools right in their Excel spreadsheet

Target Audiences

Aspiring Analysts who want to take their careers to the next level by unleashing Microsoft Excel's Business Intelligence functionality to build data solutions that stand out and get noticed
Data Professionals who want to quickly augment their skills by mastering an easy to use, yet industrial-strength Business Intelligence toolset
Business owners or executives who want to empower their employees to deliver self-service Business Intelligence without buying expensive, specialized software
Any Excel user who wants to unlock the secrets of their data using the best-in-class analytical tools right in their Excel spreadsheet

The first thing you need to know about this course, is that this is NOTyour granddad’s Excel.

Instead of the same old spreadsheet stuff, we’ll do a deep dive on a truly revolutionary set of tools that empower you to do industrial-strength Business Intelligence:the art and science of transforming data – usually massive amounts of it –into meaningful, actionable insights.

In the past, doing “real” BI meant using expensive enterprise software that only a select few people would have access to anyway. But with what you’ll learn in this course, you’ll be building robust Business Intelligence solutions in no time, using nothing more than an Excel spreadsheet on your desktop.

First up, we’ll dive into Power Query, a feature-packed yet easy to use tool for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL for short) data from just about any source you can imagine into Excel. From text files to databases, wherever the data you want to analyze might be stored, you can use Power Query to pull it into Excel, and then transform it however you need to support your analysis.

Next, there’s an optional section on Pivot Tables, just in case you’re not already familiar with them. While Pivot Tables may not be a revolutionary new feature in and of themselves, they nonetheless play a crucial role in the Excel Business Intelligence landscape.
We’ll then learn to turn those Pivot Tables into “Power” Pivot Tables, by connecting them to the Excel Data Model…which is basically a relational database that lives right inside your Excel spreadsheet! This will allow us to mash up and analyze multiple datasets in a single Pivot Table…no VLOOKUPS required!

And remember how Excel usually starts to sputter out once you try to play around with more than a couple hundred thousand rows of data? No more! Power Pivot let’s you work with up to hundreds of millions of records in a single Excel file.

Then, so we can get the absolute most out of our Data Model (and into our Power Pivot Tables), we’ll learn DAX, an incredibly powerful formula language for creating complex calculations that you can drop right into your Pivots.

Since the basics of DAX syntax are easy to pick up if you’re already familiar with Excel formulas, we’ll venture into advanced topics like Time Intelligence, Iterator Functions, and Variables; and with exercises after almost every video, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to master what you’ve learned, right after you learn it.

Of course, all that number crunching doesn’t help much if we can’t present those numbers in an intuitive, easily digestible way. That’s why I close the course out with a series of powerful visualization techniques – from conditional formatting to Pivot Charts – that will transform your calculations into insights that can be used to make real-world decisions.

We’ll even explore techniques for building dynamic dashboards in Excel, using Slicers and Timelinesto not only filter our charts, but actually change the metrics we display in them. And all supported by the Data Model’s capacity for juggling hundreds of millions of rows of data in a single spreadsheet.

And in each section, I use hands-on demos, practical examples, and intuitive, common-sense explanations to teach you these concepts in a way that will help you see the connection between your new skills and the problems you’re trying to solve on the job.

But just as importantly, I’ve packed the course with TONS of exercises – ranging from straightforward to challenging – that will help you retain, and even build on, what you’ve learned.

So if you want to master these game-changing tools and build professional-grade Business Intelligence solutions right on your desktop, all you need is Microsoft Excel – and this course – to do it. I look forward to seeing you there!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Power Query for Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) operations

Lecture 1: DOWNLOAD: Resources For This Section

Lecture 2: A Note to Students Outside the US

Lecture 3: Introducing Power Query

Lecture 4: Applying Basic Transformations

Lecture 5: Editing Transformations

Lecture 6: Numerical Transformations

Lecture 7: Text Transformations

Lecture 8: Date Transformations – Building a Calendar Table

Lecture 9: Conditional Transformations

Lecture 10: IMPORTANT – If You're Following Along With The Examples

Lecture 11: Merging Datasets

Lecture 12: Appending Datasets

Lecture 13: DOWNLOAD: Exercise Files For This Section

Lecture 14: EXERCISES: Extracting, Transforming, and Loading With Power Query

Chapter 3: OPTIONAL: Pivot Tables 101

Lecture 1: Intro to Pivot Tables

Lecture 2: Adding Layers to Pivot Tables

Lecture 3: Pivot Table Formatting and Layout

Lecture 4: Filtering Pivot Tables

Lecture 5: Slicers

Lecture 6: Pivot Table Math

Lecture 7: Pivot Tables – Exercises

Chapter 4: The Excel Data Model

Lecture 1: DOWNLOAD: Resources For This Section

Lecture 2: Introducing Excel's Data Model

Lecture 3: Putting the Data Model to Work

Lecture 4: Relationships

Lecture 5: Relationships in the Excel Data Model

Lecture 6: Power Pivot Tables

Lecture 7: Calendar Tables

Lecture 8: Power Pivot Pitfalls

Lecture 9: Multiple Data Tables

Lecture 10: DOWNLOAD: Exercise Files For This Section

Lecture 11: EXERCISES: Data Modeling in Excel

Chapter 5: Analyzing the Data Model With DAX

Lecture 1: Calculated Columns With DAX

Lecture 2: EXERCISES: Calculated Columns With DAX

Lecture 3: The IF Function in DAX

Lecture 4: EXERCISES: The IF Function in DAX

Lecture 5: The SWITCH Function

Lecture 6: EXERCISES: The SWITCH Function

Lecture 7: The RELATED Function

Lecture 8: EXERCISES: The RELATED Function

Lecture 9: Introducing Measures

Lecture 10: EXERCISES: Introducing Measures

Lecture 11: Using DAX Functions in Measures

Lecture 12: EXERCISES: Using DAX Functions in Measures

Lecture 13: The CALCULATE Function

Lecture 14: EXERCISES: The CALCULATE Function

Lecture 15: The ALL Function

Lecture 16: EXERCISES: The ALL Function

Chapter 6: Advanced DAX

Lecture 1: Introducing Time Intelligence Functions

Lecture 2: The ISBLANK Function

Lecture 3: EXERCISES: The ISBLANK Function

Lecture 4: The DATEADD Function

Lecture 5: EXERCISES: The DATEADD Function

Lecture 6: The DATESINPERIOD Function

Lecture 7: EXERCISES: The DATESINPERIOD Function

Lecture 8: Variables in DAX

Lecture 9: EXERCISES: Variables in DAX

Lecture 10: The "X" Functions

Lecture 11: EXERCISES: The "X" Functions

Lecture 12: The RANKX Function

Lecture 13: EXERCISES: The RANKX Function

Lecture 14: The TOPN Function

Lecture 15: EXERCISES: The TOPN Function

Chapter 7: Data Visualization Techniques

Lecture 1: Pivot Table Formatting Tips

Lecture 2: Data Bars, Color Scales, and Icon Sets

Lecture 3: Custom Conditional Formats

Lecture 4: Introducing Pivot Charts

Lecture 5: Column Charts

Lecture 6: Line Charts, Area Charts, and Timelines

Lecture 7: Combo Charts

Lecture 8: Changing Measures With Slicers

Lecture 9: Using Pivot Tables as Formulas

Lecture 10: EXERCISES: Data Visualization Techniques

Instructors

Travis Cuzick
Data Solutions Engineer

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2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 22 votes
4 stars: 152 votes
5 stars: 254 votes

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