Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to Dax, Power Query, Power Bi & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016

Collie, Rob

ISBN 10: 1615470395 / ISBN 13: 9781615470396

Published by Holy Macro! Books, 2016

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR011041659

Synopsis:

Microsoft Power BI, including Power Pivot and Power Query, are a set of free add-ons to Excel that allow users to produce new kinds of reports and analyses that were simply impossible before.

This book, printed in full-gorgeous color, gives you an overview of Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query, and then dives into DAX formulas, the core capability of Power Pivot. Always from the perspective of the Excel audience.

Written by the world's foremost Power BI bloggers and practitioners, the book's concepts and approach are introduced in a simple, step-by-step manner tailored to the learning style of Excel users everywhere. The techniques presented allow users to produce, in hours or even minutes, results that formerly would have taken entire teams weeks or months to produce. 

This book includes lessons on:-

• difference between calculated columns and measures
• how formulas can be reused across reports of completely different shapes
• how to merge disjointed sets of data into unified reports
• how to make certain columns in a pivot behave as if the pivot were filtered while other columns do not
• how to create time-intelligent calculations in pivot tables such as "Year over Year" and "Moving Averages" whether they use a standard, fiscal, or a complete custom calendar.
• how to leverage Power Query to make your Power Pivot models awesome!
• how to use Power BI Desktop and PowerBI.com and how they fit into the Excel landscape

The "pattern-like" techniques and best practices contained in this book have been developed and refined over several years of onsite training with Excel users around the world, and the key lessons from those seminars costing thousands of dollars per day are now available to you, within the pages of this easy-to-follow guide. This updated second edition covers new features introduced with Office 2016 and Power BI Desktop.

About the Author:

Rob Collie is an entrepreneur, author, and consultant. He was one of the founding engineers behind Power Pivot at Microsoft and operates the world's leading Power Pivot/Power BI website, PowerPivotPro.com. He lives in Indianapolis. Avichal Singh (Avi) is Principal Consultant at PowerPivotPro where he blogs, trains and consults on PowerPivot and Power BI. His past experience includes building large scale Power BI solutions at Microsoft. He lives in Seattle.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's ...
Publisher: Holy Macro! Books
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 2nd Edition