Month: March 2019

E-DAB 06: Excel Data Analysis & BI Basics: The Magic of Power Query to Import, Transform & Load Data

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This video teaches about the basics of how to use Power Query to import, clean, transform and load data.
This class : Data Analysis & Business Intelligence Made Easy with Excel Power Tools – Excel Data Analysis Basics = E-DAB Class – Sponsored by YouTube and taught by Mike Girvin, Highline College Instructor, Microsoft Excel MVP and founder of the excelisfun channel at YouTube. This is a free educational resource for people how want to learn about the Basics of Data Analysis and Business Intelligence using Microsoft Power Tools such as, PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI Desktop and more.

Topics:
1. (00:12) Introduction
2. (01:14) Power Query Icon as Magic
3. (02:19) Files to download and unzip folder
4. (03:12) What is Power Query? What does Power Query do?
5. (05:19) Example 1: Import Text File to create report and chart. Then get a new Text File next month and everything will update.
6. (07:11) A complete introduction to Power Query.
7. (12:59) Two methods to update report when you get a new Text file: 1) Edit Query, or 2) Duplicate Query.
8. (15:02) Example 2: Clean Bad Data in an Excel Sheet, Load to Excel Sheet, Build PivotTable. Then add new data and refresh the Query and the PivotTable Cache.
9. (20:42) Example 3: Import multiple Text Files from Folder and Append into single Proper Data Set.
10. (20:30) Summary

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E-DAB 05: Excel Data Analysis & BI Basic: Visualizing Data w Tables, Charts, Formatting & Dashboards

Posted on by Annie D

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This video teaches about how to visualize in Excel with Tables, Conditional Formatting, Column and Bar Charts, Cross Tab Char (Clustered Column / Bar & Stacked Column / Bar), Line Chart, X Y Scatter Chart and Dashboards. Comprehensive Dashboard Example at end.
This class : Data Analysis & Business Intelligence Made Easy with Excel Power Tools – Excel Data Analysis Basics = E-DAB Class – Sponsored by YouTube and taught by Mike Girvin, Highline College Instructor, Microsoft Excel MVP and founder of the excelisfun channel at YouTube. This is a free educational resource for people how want to learn about the Basics of Data Analysis and Business Intelligence using Microsoft Power Tools such as, PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI Desktop and more.

Topics:
1. (00:15) Introduction to topics, downloading files and visualizing examples in video.
2. (01:48) Why Visualize? Table or Visualization?
3. (03:47) Edward R. Tufte and High Data/Ink Ratio Rule and “No Chart Junk Rule”
4. (05:57) Tables Formatting Rules
5. (12:05) Conditional Formatting
6. (15:45) Column and Bar Charts
7. (24:04) Cross Tab Chart: Clustered Column / Bar & Stacked Column / Bar
8. (27:10) Line Chart: 1 Number
9. (29:47) Line Chart and IF Function for line chart that shows revenue and emphasizes promotions for company.
10. (35:40) X-Y Scatter Chart: 2 Numbers
11. (37:02) Comprehensive Dashboard example with PivotTables and Charts. Print Setup to allow printing.
12. (39:26) PivotTable Custom Style
13. (53:44) Summary

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VLOOKUP Text Numbers in Excel – Episode 2272

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Troubleshooting Excel VLOOKUP. You enter a VLOOKUP but all of the numbers are returning the #N/A error. You can see the 4399 in the lookup table, but here is the difference. The number in A2 is a text 4399 and the number in the lookup table is a number. Today, a new way to solve this with just two extra characters.

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Fuzzy Lookup in Excel from Microsoft Labs – Episode 2271

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Today, a look at the Fuzzy Lookup tool released by Microsoft Labs for Excel back in 2013/2014 time frame. The tool is fairly cool for matching imperfect data. This episode shows you the portfolio example that ships with the add-in.

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