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Excel Power Pivot & Power Query For Dummies

Author:

Michael Alexander

Overview

Learn to crunch huge amounts of data with PowerPivot and Power Query

Do you have a ton of data you need to make sense of? Microsoft’s Excel program can handle amazingly large data sets, but you’ll need to get familiar with PowerPivot and Power Query to get started.

And that’s where Dummies comes in. With step-by-step instructions—accompanied by ample screenshots—Excel PowerPivot & Power Query For Dummies will teach you how to save time, simplify your processes, and enhance your data analysis and reporting. Use Power Query to discover, connect to, and import your organization’s data. Then use PowerPivot to model it in Excel. You’ll also learn to:

Make use of databases to store large amounts of data
Use custom functions to extend and enhance Power Query
Add the functionality of formulas to PowerPivot and publish data to SharePoint

If you’re expected to wrangle, interpret, and report on large amounts of data, Excel PowerPivot & Power Query For Dummies gives you the tools you need to get up to speed quickly.

Learn to crunch huge amounts of data with PowerPivot and Power Query

Do you have a ton of data you need to make sense of? Microsoft’s Excel program can handle amazingly large data sets, but you’ll need to get familiar with PowerPivot and Power Query to get started.

And that’s where Dummies comes in. With step-by-step instructions—accompanied by ample screenshots—Excel PowerPivot & Power Query For Dummies will teach you how to save time, simplify your processes, and enhance your data analysis and reporting. Use Power Query

to discover, connect to, and import your organization’s data. Then use PowerPivot to model it in Excel. You’ll also learn to:

Make use of databases to store large amounts of data
Use custom functions to extend and enhance Power Query
Add the functionality of formulas to PowerPivot and publish data to SharePoint

If you’re expected to wrangle, interpret, and report on large amounts of data, Excel PowerPivot & Power Query For Dummies gives you the tools you need to get up to speed quickly.

Excel Power Pivot and Power Query For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Microsoft Power Query has its own formula language and its own functions. Here are a handful of Power Query functions that will help you better massage and transform your data. These functions should prove to be some of the most useful in terms of data transformation.

About The Author

Michael Alexander is a senior consultant at Slalom Consulting with more than 15 years’ experience in data management and reporting. He is the author of more than a dozen books on business analysis using Microsoft Excel and has been named Microsoft Excel MVP for his contributions to the Excel community.

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