English | 2022 | ASIN: B09TD6NM4V | 175 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 Mb

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 ?

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 bners and newcomers to Microsoft Excel's Power Pivot and Power Query Editors. A bner'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

Perfog 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

Meg queries

Implementing some Power Query Productivity Tips

… and a lot more

…and lots more