Power Pivot: Big Data Analysis Made Easy (Video) (Course Id 2216)

The course is presented in four parts.

First, 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 part is 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 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