Story Telling with Employee Data

Now that you have create a few measures in Power Pivot, let’s use them to tell the staffing story by department. In this lesson, we will focus on,

  • Information goals & Visual layout
  • Interactions in Power BI
  • Formatting visuals
    • Cards
    • Charts
    • Tables
    • Slicers
  • Working with pictures

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Getting started with more DAX – Employee Data Analysis

This is a continuation of our discussion about DAX. In this lesson, we will explore themes about,

  • Counting staff as a % – using ALL to clear away filters
  • Using CALCULATE
  • More examples of CALCULATE – >100k salary staff count
  • Calculating gender pay gap

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Getting started with DAX – Employee Data Analysis

We will continue using the Employee Data set from previous lesson to build DAX understanding. In this lesson, learn all about:

  • Creating measures
  • How measures can be reused
  • Filter context explained
  • Nature measures

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Analyzing US population with Power Query & Power BI

In this lesson, we will understand the dynamic and powerful nature of Power Query, dabble a bit with Power Pivot data modeling and create simple visuals to analyze US population.

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Top time saving Excel features + tricks

So far you have learned many useful techniques and ideas in the program. In this top 10 list, let me share my favorite Excel features for saving time.

What is in this lesson?

  1. Paste special for quickly copying formats
  2. Removing duplicates
  3. Changing chart / formula references
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Customizing Excel for productivity

So far you’ve learned how to use Excel to do awesome things. In this lesson, let’s focus on how to customize Excel so that you can do what you want without wasting clicks or minutes.

In this lesson

Cascading Drop downs in Excel

You have learned how to create a drop-down box in Excel in the data validation lesson. In this lesson, let’s understand how to construct two level cascading drop-down. Something like this:

In this lesson

VLOOKUP Multiple Matches – Trick

We all know VLOOKUP can match first result. But what if you want all the matching results in a cell? Simple, use this trick.

In this lesson

  • Quick re-cap of VLOOKUP, INDEX+MATCH
  • Demo of multi-result lookup
  • Understanding TEXTJOIN function
  • Using TEXT to convert data formats
  • Closing remarks

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Advanced Conditional Formatting Tricks, Goal Tracker Project

What is in this lesson?

This is a follow-up lesson to Introduction to Conditional Formatting.

  • Writing formulas in conditional formatting
  • Linking CF to input cells
  • Creating a goal tracker using CF
  • Home work problems
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