Have you been working with massive amounts of data, maybe millions of rows, and need tools to evaluate it without taxing your laptop's processing power?
Are you seeking a simple and powerful approach to analyze, import, filter, query, report, and calculate data in Excel? Have you tried utilizing Excel's standard pivot table functionality to do these operations and been disappointed with the outcomes?
Do you want to go above Excel's limit on how much data you may evaluate at one time?
Do you want to change your data and record every step so you can go back and reuse it later?
Do you need help with leveraging Excel's extra features, such as tables, queries, and reports, for your data visualizations?
If you answered yes, then this book on Microsoft Excel Power Pivot and Power Query is the perfect option for you.
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that makes it simple to view, represent, and modify huge amounts of data in the workplace. External connections may be built to bring in data with the use of Power Pivot and Power Query. Before being loaded into the Editors of these tools, this data may be converted, modified, and cleaned up to any state. With the use of PivotTables and Pivot Charts, table linkages may be built among this data.
This guide will provide a good foundation for beginners and newcomers to Microsoft Excel's Power Pivot and Power Query Editors. A beginner's tour of the Editors of these programs, as well as the many techniques of importing and cleaning up your data, is included in this guide. Major features, filters, techniques, and loading options, as well as the tools, queries, and functions to achieve the best results for your data analysis, are all packed inside Excel Power Pivot and Power Query. With the lessons in this book, anybody without a background in data analysis or queries may produce remarkable Power Pivot and Power Query outcomes.
Here's a peek of what you'll find in this guide:
- Understanding the Power Pivot Internal Data Model
- Activating the Power Pivot Ribbon
- Linking Excel Tables to Power Pivot
- Preparing your Excel Tables
- Adding your Excel tables to the data model
- Creating relationships between your Power Pivot Tables
- Using Power Pivot data in reporting
- Loading data from other data sources
- Loading data from other relational database systems
- Refreshing and managing external data connections
- Enhancing Power Pivot Data with Calculated Columns
- Creating your first calculated column
- Formatting your calculated columns
- Referencing calculated columns in other calculations
- Hiding calculated columns from end-users
- Utilizing DAX to create Calculated Columns
- Identifying DAX functions safe for calculated columns
- Building DAX-driven calculated columns
- Month sorting in Power Pivot-driven Pivot Tables
- Importing data from the Azure database
- Importing data from ODBC connections to nonstandard databases
- Getting data from other data systems
- Managing data source settings
- Editing data source settings
- Performing common transformation tasks
- Removing duplicate records
- Understanding data type conversions
- Spicing up custom columns with functions
- Adding conditional logic to custom columns
- Understanding the Merge Feature
- Understanding the Power Query joins
- Merging queries
- Implementing some Power Query Productivity Tips
- ... and a lot more
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To provide all-around enjoyment, this guidebook also demands an understanding and practicing reader. Dealing with and working through this guide will assist you to more effectively use Microsoft Excel and its Power Pivot and Power Query Editors because this guide is second to none in a series of Excel-related publications.