Description

This bundle include all the three courses of Power Pivot Workshop: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. The Beginner course introduces Power Pivot to any user who knows Excel and want to create reports with more complex and large data structures than a single table made by few thousand rows. The Intermediate course improves your skills on Power Pivot for Excel, introducing you to the DAX language and important features such as CALCULATE and Time Intelligence functions. The Advanced course enables you to master Power Pivot for Excel. You will understand DAX in depth, which is required for writing complex calculations. You will also learn how to create complex reports and data models by leveraging advanced features of both Excel and Power Pivot.

Power Pivot is available in both Excel 2010 and Excel 2013, and it is the center of Power BI, the Microsoft offer for self-service analytics. You do not need any previous experience in Power Pivot to take this course.

The course includes almost 10 hours of video in 73 lectures, divided in these sections:

• Introduction to Self-Service Business Intelligence
• Introduction to Power Pivot
• Loading Data
• Data Modeling
• DAX Language
• Table Functions and CALCULATE
• Basic Time Intelligence
• Power BI and SharePoint
• Creating Reports and KPI
• Advanced DAX Concepts
• Advanced DAX Functions
• DAX as a Query Language
• DAX Patterns

• Advanced Excel Users
• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developers
• Data Scientists

Course content

• Introduction to Self-Service Business Intelligence
  • Self-Service BI
  • Power Pivot
  • Power Query
  • Power View
  • Power Map
• Introduction to Power Pivot
  • PivotTables in Excel
  • PivotTables in Excel 2013
  • Using Power Pivot
  • Calculated Columns
  • Linked Tables
  • Calculated Fields
  • Publishing to Power BI
• Loading Data
  • Loading Data in Power Pivot
  • Loading from SQL Tables
  • Loading from SQL Queries
  • Loading from Access
  • Loading from Analysis Services
  • Using Linked Tables
  • Loading from Excel
  • Loading from Text Files
  • Loading from the Clipboard
  • Loading from Reports
  • Loading from Data Feeds
  • Loading from Azure Marketplace
  • Loading from SharePoint
  • Data Connection Properties
• Data Modeling
  • Introduction to Data Models
  • Normalization and Denormalization
  • Star Schemas
  • Over Denormalization
• DAX Language
  • Introduction to DAX
  • Calculated Columns and Calculated Fields
  • DAX Error Handling
  • Overview of DAX Functions
• Table Functions and CALCULATE
  • RELATED and RELATEDTABLE functions
  • FILTER and ALL functions
  • CALCULATE function
  • Visual Totals and ALLSELECTED
• Basic Time Intelligence
  • What is Time Intelligence
  • Calendar Table
  • Counting Working Days
  • Multiple Calendar Tables
  • Aggregations Over Time
• Power BI and SharePoint
  • Power BI and SharePoint Introduction
  • Using Power Query
  • Using Power View
  • Using Power Map
  • Publishing on Office 365
  • Publishing on SharePoint
• Creating Reports and KPI
  • Using KPI in Power Pivot
  • Advanced Excel Features for Power Pivot
  • Optimizing the User Experience with the Data Model
• Advanced DAX Concepts
  • Important DAX Concepts
  • Filter Context
  • CALCULATE
  • Row Context
  • Evaluation Contexts and Relationships
  • Context Transition
  • ALLSELECTED
• Advanced DAX Functions
  • Advanced DAX Functions and Patterns
  • RANKX
  • KEEPFILTERS
  • Semi Additive Measures
  • Event in Progress
  • Calculations Over Weeks
• DAX as a Query Language
  • Basic DAX Query Functions
  • Linked-Back Tables in Excel
  • Advanced DAX Query Functions
• DAX Patterns
  • DAX Patterns Introduction
  • Banding
  • ABC / Pareto Analysis
  • Parent-Child Hierarchies
  • Compare Budget and Sales
• Conclusion
  • Advanced Course Conclusion
• Additional Material
  • Download Sample Files