20779: Analyzing Data with Excel Training

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Course Description

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20779: Analyzing Data with Excel training course is intended for all those professionals who have experience in analyzing data with excel. The professionals who are more likely to join this course are the SQL server report creators. Further, the main purpose of this course is to offer skills to integrate the BI technique into excel data analysis.

It is a course that is beyond the charts and the tables. Instead, it employs the pivot charts; excel data model, and Power BI. The skills that professionals are gaining in this course are exploring excel classic dashboards. Professional will also extend the excel data structure, pre-format, and import a CSV file.

After completing the course, professionals will find themself as data analysts in reputed firms.

This training is designed based on the objectives of the course variant 20779B.

Prerequisites for this training

  • Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
  • Working knowledge of relational databases.
  • Extensive knowledge of Excel spreadsheets including formulas, charts, filtering, sorting, and sub-totals.
  • Basic knowledge of data analytics equivalent to having attended course 10994.

Who should attend this course?

This course is intended for students who are experienced with analyzing data with Excel and who wish to add BI techniques.

The course will likely be attended by SQL Server report creators who are interested in alternative methods of presenting data.

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What you will learn

  • Explore and extend a classic Excel dashboard.
  • Explore and extend an Excel data model.
  • Pre-format and import a .CSV file.
  • Import data from a SQL Server database
  • Import data from a report.
  • Create measures using advanced DAX functions.
  • Create data visualizations in Excel.
  • Create a Power BI dashboard with Excel.

Curriculum

This module looks at the classic Excel dashboard and at ways to extend it.

  • Classic Data Analysis with Excel
  • Excel Pivot Tables
  • Limitations of Classic Data Analysis
  • Lab: Building a Classic Excel Dashboard

  • Formatting Data
  • Building a Pivot Table
  • Adding pivot charts and a slicer
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe classic data analysis with Excel
  • Describe Excel pivot tables
  • Describe the limitations of classic data analysis with Excel
  • This module looks at the classic Excel data model and at ways to extend it.

  • Using an Excel Data Model
  • DAX
  • Lab: Explore an Excel Data Model

  • Create Calculated Columns
  • Format Data Model Data
  • Create Measures
  • Analyze the Data
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe an Excel data model
  • View data within an Excel data table
  • Describe DAX
  • This module looks at pre-formatting and importing CSV files.

  • Importing Data into Excel
  • Shaping and Transforming Data
  • Loading Data
  • Lab: Importing Data from a CSV File

  • Import and Transform Data from a CSV File
  • Add Data from a Folder
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Import data into excel.
  • Shape and transform data.
  • Load data.
  • This module looks at how to import data into Excel from a SQL Server database.

  • Available Data Sources
  • Previewing, Shaping, and Transforming Data
  • Table Relationships and Hierarchies
  • Loading Data
  • Lab: Import Data from Multiple Sources

  • Import Data from SQL Server
  • Import Data from a CSV File
  • Create a Data Table
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Identify available data sources.
  • Preview, shape, and transform data.
  • Explain table relationships and hierarchies.
  • Load data from various sources.
  • This module describes how to import data from a report.

  • Importing Data from Excel Reports
  • Transforming Excel report Data
  • Lab: Importing Data from a Report

  • Import Data from Excel
  • Transform the Excel Data
  • Load the Data into an Excel Data Model
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Import data from Excel reports.
  • Transform Excel report data.
  • This module describes how to create and format measures.

  • DAX
  • Measures
  • Advanced DAX Functions
  • Lab: Creating Measures using Advanced DAX Functions

  • Last year comparison
  • Year to date
  • Market Share
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain what DAX is and when to use it.
  • Describe a measure.
  • Use some of the advanced functions within DAX.
  • This module describes how to visualize data in Excel.

  • Pivot Charts
  • Cube Functions
  • Charts for Cube Functions
  • Lab: Data Visualization in Excel

  • Create a Tabular Report
  • Create a Pivot Chart
  • Add Slicers to Charts
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Create and refine a pivot chart.
  • Describe cube functions and when to use them.
  • Describe a number of charts for use with cube functions.
  • This module describes how to use Excel with Power BI.

  • Power BI
  • Uploading Excel Data to Power BI
  • Power BI Mobile App
  • Lab: Creating a Power BI Dashboard with Excel

  • Uploading Excel Data
  • Creating a Power BI Dashboard
  • Using Power BI desktop
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe Power Bi and the various versions available.
  • Upload Excel data to Power BI.
  • Describe the Power BI App.
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