Pluralsight: Excel - An Analytics Superhub
Date: 21 November 2013 | Posted by: Soomro
Pluralsight: Excel - An Analytics Superhub
English | WMV | 1024 x 768 | WMV3 ~31.1 kbps | 15 fps
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Genre: Video Tutorial / Bisiness Intelligence & Reporting (2013)
English | WMV | 1024 x 768 | WMV3 ~31.1 kbps | 15 fps
WMA | 128 Kbps | 44.1 KHz | 2 channels | 3h 02m | 294 MB
Genre: Video Tutorial / Bisiness Intelligence & Reporting (2013)
A look at the analytics capabilities in the core Excel product and its add-ins, including PowerPivot, Power View, "Data Explorer" and "GeoFlow," as well as an investigation into how to use these tools together.
Content:
Introduction
Introduction
Excel as a BI Tool
Excel's Ubiquity and Strategic Importance for BI
Excel Analytics Facilities and Workflow
Data Management and Modeling: Core Excel and the Excel Data Model
Core Excel BI
Demo: Web Queries and The Data Connection Wizard
Office Data Connections
Demo: Managing Office Data Connections
Analysis Services Support
Demo: Querying an OLAP Cube
The Excel Data Model
The BI Semantic Model
Data Management and Modeling: PowerPivot
Features Overview
Obtaining the Add-In, Data Import
Demo: Data Import and Setting Relationships
Advanced Modeling
Demo: Advanced Modeling, Querying in Excel
Data Discovery and Visualization: Power View
Overview
Creating Reports
Demo: Power View Basics
Maximize, Filters and Bubble Charts
Demo: Filters, Bubble Charts and the Play Axis
Advanced Properties
Data Acquisition: "Data Explorer"
Overview, Data Sources and Tie-Ins with Excel Data Model
Demo: Importing Web and Facebook Data
Data Shaping, Data Manipulation and Integrating Child Data
Demo: Importing, Shaping and Visualizing HDInsight (Hadoop) Data
Data Formulas, Scripts and the 'M' langauge
Demo: Working with Data Steps and Scripts
Mapping: "GeoFlow"
Overview and First Steps
Demo: Mapping the Hadoop Data
Chart Types, Controls and Visual Elements
Demo: Bubble Charts, Heat Maps, Panning, Zooming, and Themes
Layers, Scenes and Tours
Demo: Working with Layers, Building Scenes and Tours
How SharePoint Ties In
Overview and Excel Services/Excel Web App
Demo: Excel Analytics in the Excel Web App on Office 365
PowerPivot and Power View
PerformancePoint/Reporting Services, Analysis Services Clients
Wrap-Up
Review
Upsides, Downsides, Reference Links
Exercise Material includes only Slides, no code files.
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