Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to DAX, Power Query, Power BI & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016

Microsoft PowerPivot is a free add-on to Excel from Microsoft that allows users to produce new kinds of reports and analyses that were simply impossible before, and this book is the first to tackle DAX formulas, the core capability of PowerPivot, from the perspective of the Excel audience. Written by the worlds foremost PowerPivot blogger and practitioner, the books concepts and approach are introduced in a step-by-step manner tailored to the learning style of Excel users everywhere. The techniques presented allow users to produce, in hours or even minutes, results that formerly would have taken entire teams weeks or months to produce. The pattern-like techniques and best practices contained in this book have been developed and refined over two years of onsite training with Excel users around the world, and the key lessons from those seminars costing thousands of dollars per day are now available within the pages of this easy-to-follow guide. This updated edition covers new features introduced with Office 2015.

Contents

Dedications,
Supporting Workbooks and Data Sets,
Errata and Book Support,
A Note on Hyperlinks,
Foreword and Forward,
Introduction - Our Two Goals for this Book,
1 - A Revolution Built On YOU,
2 - Power Pivot and the Power BI Family: Making Sense of the Various Versions,
3 - Learning Power Pivot "The Excel Way",
4 - Loading Data Into Power Pivot,
5 - Intro to Calculated Columns,
6 - Introduction to DAX Measures,
7 - The "Golden Rules" of DAX Measures,
8 - CALCULATE() Your New Favorite Function,
9 - ALL() The "Remove a Filter" Function,
10 - Thinking in Multiple Tables,
11 - "Intermission" Taking Stock of Your New Powers,
12 - Disconnected Tables,
13 - Introducing the FILTER() Function, and Disconnected Tables Continued,
14 - Introduction to Time Intelligence,
15 - IF(), SWITCH(), BLANK(), and Other Conditional Fun,
16 - SUMX() and Other X ("Iterator") Functions,
17 - Multiple Data Tables,
18 - Multiple Data Tables Differing Granularity,
19 - Performance: Keep Things Running Fast,
20 - Power Query to the Rescue,
21 - Power BI Desktop,
22 - "Complicated" Relationships,
23 - Row and Filter Context Demystified,
24 - CALCULATE and FILTER More Nuances,
25 - Time Intelligence with Custom Calendars: Greatest Formula in the World,
26 - Advanced Calculated Columns,
27 - New DAX Functions ... and Variables!,
28 - "YouTube for Data" The Importance of a Server,
PS: Can We Ask You for a Special Favor?,
A1 - Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular: Two Tools for the Price of One (again!),
A2 - Cube Formulas the End of GetPivotData(),
A3 - Some Common Error Messages,
A4 - People: The Most Powerful Feature of Power Pivot,
Index,

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