PowerPivot Alchemy : [patterns and techniques for Excel]

by Rob Collie & Bill Jelen

PowerPivot is an amazing new add-in for Excel 2013 that allows business intelligence pros to process large amounts data. Although it is simple to use in a demo environment, analysts are likely to run into real-life scenarios that are difficult to solve. This guide, dedicated solely to the PowerPivot tool, provides techniques and solutions to real-world problems, including showing the Top N customers by using slicer filters, comparing budget to actuals, drilling across data instead of through data, and joining data from two different sources in a single analysis

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Collie, Rob ; Jelen, Bill
Publisher:	Uniontown, Ohio : Holy Macro! Books

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XIV, 231 S.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Title page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedications; A Note on Hyperlinks; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Dashboard Tricks and Visualization Techniques; Adding a "Last Refreshed Date" Readout; Normalizing Your Measures to First/Average/Max Values for Charts; Bubbling Up Exceptions with "Sarah Problem"; Ranks and Exceptions That Bubble Up to Subtotals; Chapter 2: Slicers: The Gateway to Interactivity; "Initializing" Slicers That Contain Too Many Values to Scroll; Wingdings and Other Symbolic Fonts in Slicers; Using Macros to Change Slicer Fonts A Simple Trick for Combatting "Stale" SlicersUser-Friendly Report Sorting with Slicers; Adding State Alpha Sorting to the Sort-by-Slicer Trick; Conditional Formatting Controlled via Slicers; Catching Slicer Selections in a Formula; Chapter 3: Conquering Common Calculated Column Conundrums; An Excel Pro's Primer on Calculated Columns; Subtotaling Calc Columns and the EARLIER() Function; Referencing the Previous Row and Similar Calcs; Referencing Rows "Within Range" of the Current Row; Totaling Data Table Values in Lookup Tables; CONTAINSX: Finding Matching Values in Two Tables CONTAINSX Revisited: What Is the Match?Common Calendar Conundrums; Custom Calendar Conundrums; Chapter 4: Modeling and Portable Formulas; Integrating Data of Different "Grains"; A Mystifying and Awesome Solution for the Many-to-Many Problem; Calculating Same-Store Sales in Power Pivot; Same-Store Sales Continued: Using Store Open/Close Dates; Campaign Analysis: Seasonally Adjusted Measures; A/B Campaign Analysis with Start and End Date Slicers; Customers and Website Visitors: Percentage Who Return; Calculating Average Customer Age; Moving Averages, Sums, etc Moving Averages Controlled by a SlicerChapter 5: Power Query; Combining Multiple Worksheets or Workbooks into a Single Power Pivot Table; Using Power Query to Merge CSV Files; Using Power Query to "Unpivot" a Table; Using Power Query to Create a Lookup Table from a Data Table; Creating a Calendar Table: Advanced Usage of Power Query; Chapter 6: Power View; How to Use Power View; Chapter 7: Power Map; Thank you; Index; More from Holy Macro! Books
ISBN:	978-1-61547-021-1 ; 978-1-61547-214-7 ; 978-1-61547-334-2 ; 978-1-306-87820-3 ; 978-1-61547-021-1
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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