Check out the finals of the Financial Modeling World Cup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaW8zwnOA7M
I was a host for an Excel Competition that aired live on YouTube. Besides being one of the nerdiest & geekiest things I’ve been involved in, it Continue reading “Excel Changing Formula References By Dragging The Mouse – 2427”
This weekend, Fantasy Football teams will be doing their draft. If you are using the ESPN website to manage your draft, the Draft Recap Report could use some formatting.
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Long ago, Excel offered a full screen mode. The Ribbon would completely disappear and you could get the maximum number of rows in the grid visible. The feature was removed in Excel 2013. Today, it is back! At least in Continue reading “Excel Full Screen Mode Returns – Episode 2425”
I have a problem in Excel. About a week ago, the vertical scroll bar on an Excel worksheet stopped working. I lost the scrolling ability from top to bottom. So when I try to drag the right scroll bar from Continue reading “Excel Vertical Scroll Bar Stops Working – 2423”
Kartikey has 6800 rows of data. For each product in column A, he needs every combination of Column B with Column C. In this episode, Bill uses Power Query and a Full Outer Join to solve the problem.
Subhash wants to make changes in either the source or copied data and have it reflected in the other place. A little bit of VBA makes this possible.
The code from the video:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
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In this video learn how to Average a customers last three sales (last three dates) using Excel Worksheet Formulas, Power Query M Code and a Power Pivot & Power BI DAX Measure.
Topics:
1. (00:07) Introduction
2. (00:50) Sort Method
3. (02:09) Excel Worksheet Formulas, including AGGREGATE and AVERAGEIFS functions.
4. (05:27) LARGE Function and New Excel Office 365 Calculation Engine
5. (08:15) Power Query M Code, including Table.Sort, List.Average and List.FirstN M Code functions
6. (12:46) Power Query Parameter Query with condition coming from Excel Worksheet
7. (14:05) Power Pivot & Power BI DAX Measure, including TOPN, CALCULATE and AVERAGE DAX Functions
8. (17:08) DAX Parameter from Excel Worksheet using VALUES DAX Function.
9. (18:43) Add new records to table and test formulas
10. (19:00) Fix Power Query Table.Sort bug using Dummy Insert Column
11. (20:08) Fix Power Query Table.Sort bug using Table.Sort function inside Table.Group Function
12. (22:12) Conclusion
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This video teaches about the Columnar Database in Excel Power Pivot Data Model, which allows us to import and hold millions of rows of data in an Excel Workbook and have a small file size. We can also make Data Model PivotTable Reports from this imported “Big Data”.
Comprehensive Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis Class, BI 348, taught by Mike Girvin, Excel MVP and Highline College Professor.
Topics:
1. (00:15) Introduction: Discussion of how to import “Big Data” Into Excel. Discussion about how Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot and the Data Model Columnar Database work together to make importing big data possible in Excel (and in Power BI Desktop).
2. (03:25) Power Query to Import Text Files (Big Data) From Folder and Append them into a single table.
3. (07:50 Columnar Database Explained. How does Columnar Database work? Where is Columnar Database in Excel?
4. (12:55) Make Data Model PivotTable with Implicit Measures.
5. (14:23) Example of dramatic file size reduction when we use the Columnar Database for a single Text File.
6. (16:21) Define Columnar Database. Lookup at pdf notes.
7. (17:37) Why Microsoft names the Big Data tool in Excel “Power Pivot”.
8. (18:21) Summary
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This video teaches about the Columnar Database in Excel Power Pivot Data Model, which allows us to import and hold millions of rows of data in an Excel Workbook and have a small file size. We can also make Data Model PivotTable Reports from this imported “Big Data”.
Comprehensive Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis Class, BI 348, taught by Mike Girvin, Excel MVP and Highline College Professor.
Topics:
1. (00:15) Introduction: Discussion of how to import “Big Data” Into Excel. Discussion about how Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot and the Data Model Columnar Database work together to make importing big data possible in Excel (and in Power BI Desktop).
2. (03:25) Power Query to Import Text Files (Big Data) From Folder and Append them into a single table.
3. (07:50 Columnar Database Explained. How does Columnar Database work? Where is Columnar Database in Excel?
4. (12:55) Make Data Model PivotTable with Implicit Measures.
5. (14:23) Example of dramatic file size reduction when we use the Columnar Database for a single Text File.
6. (16:21) Define Columnar Database. Lookup at pdf notes.
7. (17:37) Why Microsoft names the Big Data tool in Excel “Power Pivot”.
8. (18:21) Summary
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This video teaches about the Columnar Database in Excel Power Pivot Data Model, which allows us to import and hold millions of rows of data in an Excel Workbook and have a small file size. We can also make Data Model PivotTable Reports from this imported “Big Data”.
Comprehensive Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis Class, BI 348, taught by Mike Girvin, Excel MVP and Highline College Professor.
Topics:
1. (00:15) Introduction: Discussion of how to import “Big Data” Into Excel. Discussion about how Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot and the Data Model Columnar Database work together to make importing big data possible in Excel (and in Power BI Desktop).
2. (03:25) Power Query to Import Text Files (Big Data) From Folder and Append them into a single table.
3. (07:50 Columnar Database Explained. How does Columnar Database work? Where is Columnar Database in Excel?
4. (12:55) Make Data Model PivotTable with Implicit Measures.
5. (14:23) Example of dramatic file size reduction when we use the Columnar Database for a single Text File.
6. (16:21) Define Columnar Database. Lookup at pdf notes.
7. (17:37) Why Microsoft names the Big Data tool in Excel “Power Pivot”.
8. (18:21) Summary
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This video introduces Excel Power Pivot and shows how to use the Relationship feature rather than VLOOKUP Function to reduce file size and allow user to pull fields for a PivotTable Report from Multiple Tables.
Comprehensive Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis Class, BI 348, taught by Mike Girvin, Excel MVP and Highline College Professor.
Topics:
1. (00:15) Introduction
2. (01:43) Look at VLOOKUP solution
3. (02:49) Introduction to What Is Power Pivot? Discuss what a Data Model is.
4. (05:46) Relationship feature
5. (09:16) Create PivotTable Report
6. (11:45) First Look at Implicit Measures
7. (13:02) Enable the Power Pivot Ribbon Tab
8. (13:37) First Look at Power Pivot Window and Data Model
9. (20:30) Summary
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This video introduces the topics that will be covered in this Highline College BI 348 Class:
Name of Class:
BI 348 – Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis:
• Power Query
• Power Pivot
• DAX
• Power BI Desktop
• Excel
For Creating:
• Data Models, Reports, Dashboards and Analytics
Taught by Mike excelisfun Girvin, Excel MVP 2013-2018
• A class about connecting to multiple source of data, transforming the data into a refreshable & dynamic data model, and building reports and dashboards to provide insightful and actionable information.
Prerequisites for this class:
• Busn 216: Excel Basics, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrRPvpgDmw0n34OMHeS94epMaX_Y8Tu1k
• Busn 218: Advanced Excel, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrRPvpgDmw0lcTfXZV1AYEkeslJJcWNKw
• Busn 210: Business Statistics, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrRPvpgDmw0ngx_uPhvasTbOWLOztsaBj
What Version of Excel:
• Office 365 (updated each month)
What Version of Power BI Desktop:
• Free Tool we will download (update each month)
Over View of Topics for the class:
1. Data Analysis / Business Intelligence terms and concepts that we will learn in this class:
• Proper Data Set
• Fact Table
• Dimension Tables
• Relationships
• Star Schema
• ETL
• Measures
• Dashboards
• SQL
• Data Warehousing
2. Learn how to use Excel Power Query:
• Import Data from multiple sources
• Clean and Transform Data
• Create Data Components for Star Schema Data Models
• Load Data To Excel, the Data Model and Connection Only
• Replace Complicated Excel Solutions with Power Query Solution
• Use the Power query User Interface to create Power Query Solutions
• Learn about the Case Sensitive, Function-based M Code Language that is behind the scenes in Power Query
3. Learn how to use Excel Power Pivot:
• Excel Power Pivot provides:
i. Data Model where we can have multiple tables, formulas and relationships (Star Schema)
ii. Columnar Database to hold “Big Data” and process quickly over that “Big Data”
iii. New Formula Language called DAX:
1. Many More Calculations than in Standard PivotTable
2. Build One Formula that can work in many reports
3. Add Number Formatting to Formulas
• Excel Power Pivot to:
i. Replace VLOOKUP Formulas and Single Flat PivotTable Data Source with Multiple Tables, Relationships in the Data Model to create more efficient Reports & Dashboards
ii. Use Power Pivot Columnar Database to hold millions of rows of data
iii. DAX formulas have more Power than Standard PivotTable Calculations
4. Learn about Building Star Schema Data Models:
a. Why they are important in Power Pivot and Power BI Desktop
b. How to build them using:
i. Power Query
ii. Power Pivot
iii. DAX
iv. Power BI Desktop
5. Learn how to author DAX Formulas for Excel’s Power Pivot & Power BI Desktop:
a. Calculated Column Formulas for Data Model
b. Measure Formulas for PivotTables
c. DAX Functions like SUMX, CALCULATE, RELATED, and Much More…
d. Lean why we must create Explicit rather than Implicit formulas
e. Learn how Row Context works in formulas
f. Learn how Filter Context works in formulas
g. Learn about Scalar & Table Functions
h. Use DAX Studio to visualize and analyze DAX Formulas
6. Learn how to use Power BI Desktop:
a. Power Query to import, clean, transform and create Star Schema Data Models
b. Create Relationships
c. Create DAX Formulas
d. Build Interactive Visualizations
e. Build Dashboards
7. Learn how to use Excel:
• Spreadsheet Formulas & Functions
• Standard PivotTables
• Power Query
• Power Pivot
• Build Data Model PivotTables and the resultant Reports, Dashboards and Analytics
8. Building Refreshable, Insightful Dashboards
a. Build Excel Dashboards
b. Build Power BI Dashboards
9. Case Studies to practice using Power Pivot & Power BI Desktop for Reporting, Building Dashboards and Building Business Analytics Solutions