Dany Hoter
Dany is a Senior Project Manager in the Excel team. He has been involved with business intelligence (BI), Excel, and BI in Excel since 1998. He loves to help people to solve business problems using Excel and Power BI.
About This Course
Excel is one of the most widely used solutions for analyzing and visualizing data. It now includes tools that enable the analysis of more data, with improved visualizations and more sophisticated business logics.
In this course, get an introduction to the latest versions of these new tools in Excel 2016 from an expert on the Excel Product Team at Microsoft.
Learn how to import data from different sources, create mashups between data sources, and prepare the data for analysis. After preparing the data, find out how business calculations can be expressed using the DAX calculation engine. See how the data can be visualized and shared to the Power BI cloud service, after which it can be used in dashboards, queried using plain English sentences, and even consumed on mobile devices.
Prerequisites
Understanding of Excel analytic tools such as tables, pivot tables and pivot charts. Also some experience in working with data from databases and also from text files will be helpful.
What you’ll learn:
- Gather and transform data from multiple sources.
- Discover and combine data in mashups.
- Learn about data model creation.
- Explore, analyze, and visualize data.
Course Staff
Course Number
DAT206x-
Classes Start
Mar 20, 2019 -
Classes End
May 31, 2019 Estimated Effort
2-4 hours per week