PowerPivot for the Data Analyst: Microsoft Excel 2010 (MrExcel Library)

Bill Jelen

ISBN 10: 0789743159 / ISBN 13: 9780789743152

Published by QUE 03/06/2010, 2010

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Title: PowerPivot for the Data Analyst: Microsoft ...

Publisher: QUE 03/06/2010

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

ANALYZE HUGE AMOUNTS OF BUSINESS DATA FASTER, MORE EASILY, AND MORE ACCURATELY!

Use Microsoft’s free PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 to analyze immense amounts of data from any source, perform state-of-the-art business analysis far more easily, and make better decisions in less time!

Simple, step-by-step instructions walk you through installing PowerPivot, importing data, using PivotTables with PowerPivot, using super-powerful DAX functions and measures, reporting to print or SharePoint, and a whole lot more.

Whatever your Excel data analysis experience, this book will help you use PowerPivot to get the right answers, right now—without IT’s help!

 

·  Import and integrate data from spreadsheets, SQL Server, Access, Oracle, text files, Atom data feeds, and other sources

·  Analyze multiple tables together, without complicated VLOOKUPs

·  Format, sort, and filter data in the PowerPivot window

·  Add calculated columns using new DAX functions

·  Create powerful reports from PowerPivot data–and format them so executives instantly get your point

·  Discover PivotTable tricks that work even better in PowerPivot

·  Control multiple PivotTable elements on one worksheet, with one set of Excel 2010 Slicers

·  Use DAX Measures to quickly perform tasks that were difficult or impossible with Calculated Fields

·  Compare today’s sales to yesterday’s–or to sales from the parallel period last fiscal year.

·  Use Named Sets to prepare asymmetric reports, show actuals for past months and plan for future months.

 

About MrExcel Library:  Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will

·  Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year, or more

·  Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems

·  Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have

·  Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

 

 

 

About the Author:

Bill Jelen , Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on Call for Help with Leo Laporte and has produced more than 1,200 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 30 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. You will most frequently find Bill taking his show on the road, doing half-day Power Excel seminars wherever he can find a room full of accountants or Excellers. Before founding MrExcel.com, Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives near Akron, Ohio, with his wife, Mary, Ellen and his sons, Josh and Zeke.