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Transform your skills, data, and business - and create your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Two business intelligence (BI) experts take you inside PowerPivot functionality for Excel 2013, with a focus on real world scenarios, problem-solving, and data modeling.

This book shows students how to make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won't find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help students instantly visualize information, so they can act on it… capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere… automate Excel 2019's best new features. Students will find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and workbooks packed with bonus examples, macros, and solutions-straight from MrExcel!

Learn how to use Excel 2019 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes instead of hours, to take control of your data and your business. Even if youGÇÖve never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their remarkable flexibility and analytical powerGÇöincluding valuable improvements in Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365. Drawing on more than 45 combined years of Excel experience, Bill Jelen and Michael Alexander offer practical GÇ£recipesGÇ¥ for solving real business problems, help you avoid common mistakes, and present tips and tricks youGÇÖll find nowhere else.

Using Power Query, you can import, reshape, and cleanse any data from a simple interface, so you can mine that data for all of its hidden insights. Power Query is embedded in Excel, Power BI, and other Microsoft products, and leading Power Query expert Gil Raviv will help you make the most of it. Discover how to eliminate time-consuming manual data preparation, solve common problems, avoid pitfalls, and more. Then, walk through several complete analytics challenges, and integrate all your skills in a realistic chapter-length final project. By the time you're finished, you'll be ready to wrangle any data-and transform it into actionable knowledge. Prepare and analyse your data the easy way, with Power Query Quickly prepare data for analysis with Power Query in Excel (also known as Get & Transform) and in Power BI Solve common data preparation problems with a few mouse clicks and simple formula edits Combine data from multiple sources, multiple queries, and mismatched tables Master basic and advanced techniques for unpivoting tables Customise transformations and build flexible data mashups with the M formula language Address collaboration challenges with Power Query Gain crucial insights into text feeds Streamline complex social network analytics so you can do it yourself

Master core Excel tools for building powerful, reliable spreadsheets with Excel 2019 Formulas and Functions. Excel expert Paul McFedries shows how to use Excel core features to solve problems and get the answers you need. Using real-world examples, McFedries helps readers get the absolute most out of features and improvements ranging from AutoFill to ExcelGÇÖs newest functions. Along the way, students will discover the fastest, best ways to handle essential day-to-day tasks ranging from generating account numbers to projecting the impact of inflation. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! Students will find crystal-clear instructions; insider insights; even complete step-by-step projects for building timesheets, projecting cash flow, aging receivables, analyzing defects, and more. GÇó Quickly create powerful spreadsheets with range names and array formulas GÇó Use conditional formatting to instantly reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities GÇó Analyze your data with standard tables and PivotTables GÇó Use complex criteria to filter data in lists GÇó Understand correlations between data GÇó Perform sophisticated what-if analyses GÇó Use regression to track trends and make forecasts GÇó Build loan, investment, and discount formulas GÇó Validate data, troubleshoot problems, and build more accurate, trustworthy spreadsheets

Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide shows you how to use the latest Excel tools to integrate data from multiple tables-and how to effectively build a relational data source inside an Excel workbook.