Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to DAX, Power Query, Power BI & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016

By Rob Collie, Avichal Singh

Microsoft strength BI, together with energy Pivot and gear question, are a suite of unfastened accessories to Excel that permit clients to supply new types of reviews and analyses that have been easily most unlikely before.
This e-book provides an summary of energy BI, strength Pivot and gear question, after which dives into DAX formulation, the center power of energy Pivot. consistently from the point of view of the Excel audience.
Written through the world's premiere energy BI bloggers and practitioners, the book's options and method are brought in an easy, step by step demeanour adapted to the educational type of Excel clients in every single place. The concepts awarded permit clients to provide, in hours or perhaps mins, effects that previously may have taken complete groups weeks or months to produce
This publication contains classes on:-
  • difference among calculated columns and measures
  • how formulation could be reused throughout studies of totally different shapes
  • how to merge disjointed units of knowledge into unified reports
  • how to make sure columns in a pivot behave as though the pivot have been filtered whereas different columns do not
  • how to create time-intelligent calculations in pivot tables resembling "Year over 12 months" and "Moving Averages" whether or not they use a typical, financial, or an entire customized calendar.
  • how to leverage strength question to make your strength Pivot versions awesome!
  • how to exploit energy BI machine and PowerBI.com and the way they healthy into the Excel landscape

The "pattern-like" ideas and most sensible practices contained during this e-book were built and sophisticated over a number of years of onsite education with Excel clients all over the world, and the main classes from these seminars costing hundreds of thousands of greenbacks in step with day at the moment are on hand to you, in the pages of this easy-to-follow advisor. This up-to-date moment version covers new positive factors brought with workplace 2016 and gear BI Desktop.

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And we don’t like sacrificing genuine property in our box checklist to a caution that tells us not anything. So we have a tendency to flip this caution off utilizing the facility Pivot ribbon in Excel: determine 173 Toggle this button to disable that caution (2010 merely - in 2013 and past, you could brush off the caution yet no longer disable it) 12 - Disconnected Tables 87 utilizing the Parameter degree for Something…Useful okay, the [ExchangeRateEURUSD] degree is neat and all, yet having a degree that tells the person what they’ve chosen is naturally beautiful dead  yet now we will be able to use that degree in different measures: [Net revenues - EUR identical] = [Net revenues] / [EURUSD] determine 174 New degree tells us what our revenues may appear like in Euros on the chosen alternate cost! We even used the formatting strategies within the degree editor to layout the recent degree in Euros. Oddly pleasurable. And we don’t want the parameter degree displayed to ensure that it to paintings, so now we eliminate it to scrub up the pivot: determine a hundred seventy five get rid of the parameter degree to supply a purifier record upload the yr column from the revenues desk as a moment slicer: 88 continual Pivot and tool BI: The Excel User's consultant to the information Revolution determine 176 yr slicer works love it constantly has Parameter desk can be utilized on Rows and Columns Too! For grins, transparent the slicer choice in order that all Are you stunned this works on Rows too? It felt bizarre to us the 1st trade charges are chosen, then drag that point we did this, however it shouldn’t have. each one degree mobile corresponds column to Rows as an alternative: to a unmarried worth of the Exch cost column. this is often no assorted from utilizing an ordinary column (one that's attached to the revenues desk through courting, or is within the revenues desk) on Slicers as opposed to Rows. okay the end result above is a bit difficult to determine, let’s rearrange a piece: determine 177 Disconnected “slicer” box works on Rows too! determine 178 more straightforward to work out now with class on slicer – EUR an identical revenues pass down as trade price is going up that can appear counterintuitive however it is actual: in the event that your country’s forex is worthy much relative to different nations’ currencies, you're making much less cash promoting your items out of the country than whilst your foreign money is worthy much less. So in a few feel it’s “better” for a country’s foreign money to be worthy much less (and worse in different ways), yet that’s now not precisely a DAX subject now could be it? We simply didn’t wish you considering that we messed this one up  12 - Disconnected Tables 89 Why is it vital That They Be Disconnected? What may take place if our Exch charges desk have been on the topic of, say, the revenues desk? brief solution: not anything stable. What column might we use to shape the connection? There isn’t a column within the revenues desk that fits the values within the Exch premiums desk. lets invent one we think, yet then we’d need to arbitrarily assign transaction rows to person trade cost values, which might be nonsense. after which while the consumer chosen an trade fee at the slicer, not just could that impression the [ExchangeRateEURUSD] degree (as wanted) however it may additionally filter rows from the revenues desk (not desired).

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