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Practical Application of Excel BI - Power Query
9 Lessons
Excel BI - Power Query (Excel 2013)
Power Query brings the power of Data to the ordinary business and the Excel user.
Course Summary
Power Query enhances self-service business intelligence (BI) for Excel with an intuitive and consistent experience for discovering, combining, and refining data across a wide variety of sources including relational, structured and semi-structured, OData, Web, Hadoop, Azure Marketplace, and more.
Power Query brings the power of Data to the ordinary business and the Excel user.
COURSE SUMMARY
Power Query is an Excel add-in, available in Excel 2010 Professional Plus and Excel 2013. In Excel 2016 it is known as Get and discover data. Power Query can be described as SQL for Excel users (without the need for knowing SQL). It allows uses find data from multiple sources, combine data, transform data, and make the data usable for reporting and data analytics. LEARN HOW SET UP QUERIES TO EXTRACT DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES, TRANSFORM DATA OF DIFFERENT TYPES AND LEARN HOW TO USE POWER QUERY TO AUTOMATE DAILY TASKS.
MICROSOFT'S EXCEL, WHICH INCLUDES POWER QUERY, IS NOW PART OF A BI SYSTEM. IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR EXCEL SKILLS FAR BEYOND THE BASIC LEVEL AND BRING BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND DATA TO YOUR ORGANISATION THEN THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU
CONTENTS AND OVERVIEW
In section one of this course we will start at the very basics and learn how to set up Power Query. In this section you will find sample data to download, so you can practice along.Section two of this course works though a case study on how an organisation can use internal data of different file types, such as Text files and Excel files, and then combine this data with External data from the web to accurately calculate the potential market size, the actual market size and the portion of the market held by the company. This case study will give you a solid working knowledge of Power Query.
In section 3 we will look at some more advanced features of Power Query. You will be introduced to the language use, which is known as M, you will learn how to query not just files of different types but also Folders of data. You will also learn how to sort “Bad Data” and user Power Query to automate reoccurring tasks.
Who Should Attend?
This course is suited to those with an interest in Excel, Data Analyst's, Data, BI, Reporting and is well suited for Accountants, Auditors, Internal Auditors, Business Analysts, Finance staff, Banking staff, Management and those involved with Compliance and Risk assessment and BI.• This course is meant for those involved in the Analysis of Data, Finance & Accounting and Reporting roles.
• This course is for you if you are looking to learn Excels self-service BI functions.
• This course is not for you if you are new to Excel.
What’s included?
Instruction by an expert12 months access 24/7
Certificate of completion
How long will it take?
Completion Time 2 HoursCourse Curriculum
Paula Guilfoyle
After over 10 years in Accounting and Operations Paula turned her career to subject matter expert, consultant, content creation and online education. In 2010 Paula began teaching online and can now boast over 250K students in 186 different countries. In 2016 Paula began her learning journey around Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. By 2022 Paula pivoted her consultancy, content creation and online education to focus on Blockchain, Web3 and Digital Assets.
