Highline College BI 348

taught by Mike excelisfun Girvin (Excel MVP)

MSPTDA 01: Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis

Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis

Class Introduction Video
Power Query
Power Pivot DAX
DAX Formulas
Power BI Desktop
Excel
** MSPTDA 01
Highline College BI 348
taught by Mike excelisfun Girvin (Excel MVP)

MSPTDA 01: Microsoft Power Tools for Data Analysis

Create:
Data Models, Reports, Dashboards and Analytics
Power Query
Power Pivot
DAX Formulas
Power BI Desktop
Excel
Data Analysis / Business Intelligence Terms:
Proper Data Set
Fact Table
Dimension Tables
Relationships
Star Schema
ETL
Measures
Dashboards
SQL
Data Warehousing
Power Query
User Interface in Power Query
Case Sensitive, Function-based M Code Language
1Import Data from multiple sources
2Clean and Transform Data
3Create Data Components for Star Schema Data Models
4Load Data To Excel, the Data Model and Connection Only
5Replace Complicated Excel Solutions with Power Query Solution
Create Star Schema Data Models from many Types of Data and Data Sources
Excel
Formulas
PivotTables
Power Query
Power Pivot
Data Model PivotTables
Excel Power Pivot provides:
1) Model where we can have multiple tables, formulas and relationships (Star Schema)
Data
2)
Columnar Database to hold "Big Data" and process quickly over that "Big Data"
3) Formula Language called DAX:
New
* Many More Calcualtions than in Standard PivotTable
* Build One Formula that can work in many reports
* Add Number Formatting to Formulas

Excel Power Pivot to:

1)
Replace VLOOKUP Formulas and Single Flat PivotTable Data Source
with Multiple Tables, Relationships in the Data Model to create more efficient Reports & Dashboards
2) Power Pivot Columnar Database to hold millions of rows of data
Use
3) formulas have more Power than Standard PivotTable Calculations
DAX
s & Dashboards
DAX = Data Analysis eXpressions = Formulas for your PivotTable
Calculated Columns
Measures
DAX Functions like SUMX, CALCULATE, RELATED, and Much More…
Explicit rather than Implicit
Row Context
Filter Context
Scalar & Table Functions
DAX Studio to visualize and analyze DAX Formulas
Power BI Desktop
Free, Amazing Tool that combines:
1) Query
Power
2)
Columnar Database Data Model
3)
DAX
4)
Interactive Visualizations
Different than Excel: Free Tool & Perfect for Dashboards
Dashboards in Excel: Dashboards in Power BI Desktop:
r BI Desktop:
Case Studies
Where we use all the tools together to perform Data Analysis
Power Query
Data Model
PivotTables
Visualizations
To create useful information from multiple Data Sources