Power Pivot: Big Data Analysis Made Easy
Learn about advanced DAX formulas, also known as Data Analysis Expressions & how to connect data from different sources
Updated on Jun, 2025
Language - English
Development ,Data Science,Big Data
Lectures -21
Resources -1
Duration -1 hours
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Course Description
If you find yourself stuck with hundreds of millions of rows of data to analyze or find it a hassle to build a pivot table based on multiple data sources, then this course is for you.
Post Script: Excel 2010 and newer is needed for this course.
Goals
- To learn about using DAX formulas, also known as Data Analysis Expressions.
- To learn how to connect data from different sources before feeding them into 1 single pivot table.
- To learn Relationship mapping, Power Pivot’s way of doing VLOOKUP().
- To learn about the best practices in Power Pivot modelling.
- To be well positioned for building the ultimate dashboard in Power BI that utilizes DAX formulas!
Prerequisites
- Intermediate Excel knowledge.
- Example: be able to build a pivot table from scratch.
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction
4 Lectures
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Introduction
00:30
00:30
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Data Analysis challenges
03:39
03:39
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Instructor's background
01:09
01:09
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Why this course?
00:39
00:39
Power Pivot - from Basic to Intermediate
6 Lectures
Power Pivot - DAX Formulas in Data Analysis
5 Lectures
Power Pivot - 7 Best Practices
2 Lectures
Conclusion
2 Lectures
Supporting Materials
1 Lectures
Instructor Details
Lenny Wu
Lenny Wu was a Lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He also sat as an Examiner for the International English Language Testing System (or IELTS) in the 1990s. On top of these, he is an exam trainer for various high profile exams, such as GRE (or Graduate Record Examination), GMAT (or Graduate Management Admission Test), TOEFL (or Test of English as a Foreign Language), and math contests such as Euler, Gauss and Pascal. He has published books on test taking strategies.
Lenny received his MBA, Finance from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, and currently is a Senior Financial Analyst with an international engineering company in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Lenny's motto at work is "Don’t work hard, work smart". Lenny has passion in teaching how to build your own "robot" into everyday office work. He has over over 22 years working with Microsoft Excel, and he is a modeling expert in Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power BI.
Lenny is a big proponent of OCR (One-click Reporting), and SSR (Self-service Reporting).
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