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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 Jonathan S

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Jan 19, 2022

Thank you, it was a well structured course.

By Mohamed F

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Oct 29, 2022

This is very useful and infrmative course

By Maria J R P

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Mar 8, 2022

Great course and great trainer, thank you!

By SAMKIT J

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Jan 12, 2022

Excellent course, I recommend for everyone

By Yelena P

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Mar 25, 2022

Great course and great useful knowledge!

By PIMENTEL H H

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Apr 9, 2022

Excelente curso introductorioa Power BI

By CHUKWUEBUKA N

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Sep 23, 2023

Thank you for this amazing opportunity

By Kashif R

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May 12, 2023

Thank you very much respected teacher.

By Kerstin S G

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Dec 7, 2023

Useful content and clear presentation

By Sonali C

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Sep 2, 2024

good knowledge in excel and power BI

By Mel N

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Apr 21, 2021

Thanks for providing a great course.

By MARCO A M A

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Jan 16, 2024

I am very gratefull for this course

By AKSHAY R

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Aug 18, 2021

Exceptional Course :) Thanks a lot!

By Marc T

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Jul 31, 2021

I like it. New skill in my carrer

By Anupam K

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Jul 12, 2023

Nice Course, everyone should do.

By Juri B

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Oct 5, 2022

great course, highly recommend.

By Abdullah Z

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Jul 9, 2025

Strongly recommend this course.

By Muhammad J

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Nov 27, 2022

Good Design with paractical too

By Immad A

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Jan 18, 2022

Best ever course. to the point.

By Jenish

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May 15, 2023

Incredible course and content

By John M

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Dec 8, 2021

Learnt a lot from this course

By ALCEU H F

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Dec 6, 2021

Learned a lot of new contents

By Jannik S

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Oct 5, 2023

Very good and easy to follow

By John R

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Oct 30, 2022

Great interactive learning.

By Erik M

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Jun 6, 2022

Superb experience, thank you