Excel Power Pivot et Power Query for dummies

Description

Today’s data environment demands more from business analysts than ever before. The volume and types of data sources with which an analyst works reach far beyond the relatively small amount of data encountered just a few years ago.  Analysts find themselves spending valuable time cleaning, shaping and integrating disparate data from an ever increasing array of data sources.  It’s becoming increasingly important for business analysts to expand their skill-set from the one dimensional spreadsheet to new territory like relational databases, data integration, and multidimensional reporting.  Microsoft has addressed these data processing woes with the release of the new Power BI toolset.  This toolset includes two tools that have been embedded into Excel 2016 as native functionality:  PowerPivot and Power Query. These new power tools provide analysts a set of easy-to-use features for automating the steps needed to integrate a wide array of... Introduction 1 Part I: Supercharged Reporting with Power Pivot 7 Chapter 1: Thinking Like a Database 9 Chapter 2: Introducing Power Pivot 19 Chapter 3: The Pivotal Pivot Table 33 Chapter 4: Using External Data with Power Pivot 67 Chapter 5: Working Directly with the Internal Data Model 93 Chapter 6: Adding Formulas to Power Pivot 107 Chapter 7: Publishing Power Pivot to SharePoint 125 Part II: Wrangling Data with Power Query 135 Chapter 8: Introducing Power Query 137 Chapter 9: Power Query Connection Types 155 Chapter 10: Transforming Your Way to Better Data 171 Chapter 11: Making Queries Work Together 201 Chapter 12: Extending Power Query with Custom Functions 215 Part III: The Part of Tens 233 Chapter 13: Ten Ways to Improve Power Pivot Performance 235 Chapter 14: Ten Tips for Working with Power Query 243 Index 255