Skills you'll gain

Specialization - 3 course series

In this course, you’ll apply Excel’s native tools to structure your data into spreadsheets and tables. You’ll then analyze and produce insights from that data using pivot tables. Finally, you’ll visualize those insights by building a dashboard in Excel. You’ll apply these skills using modern functionality like dynamic array formulas, linked data types, and Ideas in Excel. You’ll work hands-on with real-world scenarios, using datasets pulled from financial statements and retail sales. By the end of the course, you'll be able to: ● analyze a dataset using native Excel tools ● apply Excel tools and formulas to transform and structure your data ● create pivot tables to slice and dice your data ● visualize data with pivot charts and Excel Charts ● describe the landscape of data analysis and visualization

Power Query is absolutely essential for any Excel focused analyst, and is a powerful asset to any Business Intelligence analyst. These skills will help you spend less time on data manipulation, and more time on your analysis projects. By the end of this course, you will be able to: ● Identify the characteristics of good and bad data using the principles of data normalization ● Extract data from CSV and Excel files and automate basic transformations such as Pivot and Unpivot ● Extract information from fields that combine two or more values ● Transform datasets by grouping or combining data from different tables, or even multiple files from the same folder ● Avoid, interpret, and fix errors and exceptions that you experience in Power Query ● Load transformed data into Excel for use as automated data feeds

Upon completing this course, you will be able to: ● Create a Power Pivot table by drawing data from several different tables ● Develop simple calculated metrics with consistent formatting to be re-used across our dashboard ● Assemble multiple pivot tables, charts, and dimensions into a dashboard ● Apply DAX formatting language to create measures and columns that draw data from other tables ● Manipulate context to calculate more advanced metrics ● Utilize DAX Advanced Time Intelligence to create powerful period comparisons and KPIs

Power Query Fundamentals

Power Pivot Fundamentals