We will see how Power Pivot revolutionises the actual analysis process by providing us with an analytical database inside the Excel workbook, capable of storing millions of rows, and a powerful modelling language called DAX which allows us to perform advanced analytics on our data. In this course, we will learn how to use Power Query to automate the process of importing and preparing data for analysis.

Over the last few years, Microsoft have worked on transforming the end-to-end experience for analysts, and Excel has undergone a major upgrade with the inclusion of Power Query and Power Pivot. In this four-week course, we introduce Power Query, Power Pivot and Power BI, three power tools for transforming, analysing and presenting data.Įxcel's ease and flexibility have long made it a tool of choice for doing data analysis, but it does have some inherent limitations: for one, truly 'big' data simply does not fit in a spreadsheet and for another, the process of importing and cleaning data can be a repetitive, time-consuming and error-prone. Welcome to Excel Power Tools for Data Analysis.

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