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Lenny Wu, Management Reporting Analyst, Seaspan Ship Management
Lenny is Management Reporting Analyst with over 10 years combined experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting and modeling, and real estate lease auditing. He is a CPA, CGA, and a Certifi
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The course is presented in four parts.
First: A brief introduction to Power Pivot and discuss reasons it has become more versatile than the conventional pivot table:
- Excel spreadsheet has limit of 1 million rows, while Power Pivot can connect to over 1 million rows of data. So no limit on the data sources
- Power Pivot can combine all data sources into one pivot table. So no more VLOOKUP()
- A plethora of DAX formulas in Power Pivot. Plus the formulas can be re-used!
Second: To demonstrate basic maneuvers on how to:
- Map all dimension tables and fact tables together, and
- Incorporate data from ALL sources into 1 pivot table, and
Third: We demonstrate 6 fundamental DAX formulas in Power Pivot to get you started in building advanced models for effective analytics, including:
- CALCULATE
- SUMX
- RELATED
- SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR
Last: We culminate the webinar with the best practices in Power Pivot modeling, including:
- Use Measures (or Calculated Fields) over Calculated Column in order to
- Table naming conventions, and
- DAX format
Course Key Concept: Power Pivot, Calculated Column, Calculated Field, Measures, DAX formulas, Data Analysis Expressions, Dimension table, Fact table.
Learning Objectives
- Discover Power Pivot as the big data analysis tool.
- Identify the best practices in Power Pivot modeling.
- Recognize Power Pivot’s essential steps in relationship and integration.
- Discover 6 essential DAX formulas to get you started in Power Pivot formula writing.
- Explore differences between a calculated column and a calculate field.
Last updated/reviewed: May 16, 2022
3 Reviews (42 ratings)Reviews
Jennifer O'Neill
(Financial Analyst at N/A)
Great course that teaches several Power Pivot concepts and best practices using a single real-world example throughout the lessons. Particularly helpful as a transition from traditional Excel formulas and pivot tables to the DAX language used in Power Pivot and Power BI.
Anonymous
(Chief Financial Officer)
This course answers many questions excel users have when dealing with data sets larger than 1,000,000 rows.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
Informative but very hard to stay concentrated on the subject.
Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Intermediate
Basic Excel knowledge; be able to open one Excel file and add a new sheet, etc.
Education Provider Information
Company:
Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
Contact:
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