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About the Course

Welcome to Excel Power Tools for Data Analysis. In this four-week course, we introduce Power Query, Power Pivot and Power BI, three power tools for transforming, analysing and presenting data. Excel's ease and flexibility have long made it a tool of choice for doing data analysis, but it does have some inherent limitations: for one, truly "big" data simply does not fit in a spreadsheet and for another, the process of importing and cleaning data can be a repetitive, time-consuming and error-prone. Over the last few years, Microsoft have worked on transforming the end-to-end experience for analysts, and Excel has undergone a major upgrade with the inclusion of Power Query and Power Pivot. In this course, we will learn how to use Power Query to automate the process of importing and preparing data for analysis. We will see how Power Pivot revolutionises the actual analysis process by providing us with an analytical database inside the Excel workbook, capable of storing millions of rows, and a powerful modelling language called DAX which allows us to perform advanced analytics on our data. We will finish off by venturing out of Excel and introducing Power BI, which also uses the Power Query and Power BI architecture but allows us to create stunning interactive reports and dashboards. This is the third course in our Specialization on Data Analytics and Visualization. The previous courses: Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis and Data Visualization in Excel, cover data preparation, cleaning, visualisation, and creating dashboards. To get the most out of this course we would recommend you do the previous courses or have experience with these topics. In this course we focus on Excel Power Tools, join us for this exciting journey. Please note that Power Query, Power Pivot and Power BI Desktop are only available on the Windows platform, so Mac users will require Bootcamp running Windows or a Virtual machine with a Window O/S. While Power Query is available as an add-in Excel 2010 and 2013, the tools have changed significantly, and this course has only been designed and tested for Excel 2016 and later. For an optimal experience, we recommend Office 365....

Top reviews

JG

Apr 25, 2021

Great training with powerful video illustration. The course material (excel spreadsheet, data sets, PowerBI templates) are also very well articulated and prepared. Thanks very.

YN

Feb 1, 2022

It was a good experience of learning on course era which helped me a lot to improve my technical skills and also I would like to learn more courses on course era in future.

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By RAMOJI R M

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Oct 20, 2021

very useful and makes learning easy by their explanation.

By Nick D

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Aug 15, 2022

One of the most interactive courses. Amazing instrctor!!

By Mason M

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Jun 5, 2025

Great class. Informative with references to go back to.

By Deleted A

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Oct 13, 2022

This an excellent course for introduction to Power BI.

By Sami H

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May 31, 2022

learned a lot about data visuaization and data modeling

By Juan C D M

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Dec 13, 2021

The course was very well organized and well structured.

By Juan E C S

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Aug 31, 2025

THANK YOU MACQUIRE UNIVERSITY, THANK YOU NICKY AAAAA

By Ed M

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May 10, 2023

Really professional presentation .Excellent overall.

By Shaho H P

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Aug 28, 2022

The Best Course that I have done in coursera so far.

By Anyaman P

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Oct 25, 2024

The instructions and the instructor was excellent !

By Amal A

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Mar 1, 2024

Excellent Content and Presentation. Short and sweet

By Austin

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Jan 28, 2022

Great to learn how to integrate excel with Power BI

By Ahmed A A E A

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Jun 30, 2021

Amazing course , material and instructor ,thank you

By Sudhakar R N

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Jul 19, 2021

This course helped me a lot in current profession

By abdulhai t

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Jul 23, 2021

It was very useful. Thanks a lot for your efforts

By Dako H

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Dec 28, 2023

Very informative, well designed and challenging.

By Naleen V

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Dec 28, 2022

Excellent Course, Worth every second you invest.

By Victoria A

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Jan 4, 2022

Great course, great specialization! Very useful!

By Robert C

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Sep 6, 2021

Great Course with support materials and tuition.

By Maria G C A

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Jun 20, 2025

Super! The best PowerBI course I've ever taken.

By Shyam P

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Jan 22, 2025

Great transition to Power BI from excel mindset

By Habibah B J

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Nov 14, 2022

Very interactive videos. Love it and thank you!

By Marek D

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Feb 2, 2023

one of the best I have taken. very informative

By Eddy P M

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Apr 11, 2025

Un très bon cours que je recommande vivement.

By Mehreen

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Apr 8, 2023

ITS GREAT ! I GAINED ALOT SKILLS THROUGH THIS