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Power Pivot With Dax (Basic To Advance Course)

person icon Ajay Parmar

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Power Pivot With Dax (Basic To Advance Course)

Do any calculation now in Excel with powerpivot dax

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2024

language icon Language - English

person icon Ajay Parmar

category icon Power Pivot,Office Productivity,Microsoft

Lectures -41

Duration -14 hours

4.6

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Course Description

  • What is a PowerPivot and how to install it.
  • How to import data from different sources like Excel, CSV Files or Text files or any other database.
  • Get familiar with PowerPivot ribbon and sorting, filtering options.
  • Know the place to write Measures and Calculated Columns.
  • What is DAX – A formula language. It is in very detail.
  • Difference between Measures and Calculated Columns – Which one better and which should you choose?
  • Basics DAX Functions – SUM, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, – Why they called Aggregate Functions.
  • Are they DAX Measure or Calculate columns – All Confusion is cleared.
  • Different Types of DAX Functions – ITERATORS – SUMX, COUNTX, AVERAGEX
  • Why they are called ITERATORS – Its fundamentals
  • Learn the most used and Powerful DAX – CALCULATE – It is also famous as CALCULATE IF, Know why?
  • Deep Dive into ALL FAMILY FUNCTIONS – ALL / ALL SELECTED/ ALL EXCEPT with examples
  • What is the role of ALL DAX in your Data analysis – Control the data the way you want.
  • Practical Time – How to calculate overall percentage of different products based on the Team Total?
  • What are RELATIONSHIPS in PowerPivot – One to One, Many to Many, One to Many, and Many to one with examples and challenges
  • Surprise Quiz for you to check your gained understanding.
  • Detailed discussion on HASONEVALUE Dax including IF statements
  • What is a VALUES Function and how it can change the pivot calculations by giving you more control.
  • What are implicit and explicit measures and why we should create latter ones.
  • How to write TOPN Dax, one of my favorites.
  • How to Use TOPN in practical scenarios.
  • What is a DAX Studio and how do we download it and use it in Pivots – Challenges and reasons behind using Dax Studio.
  • Learn the use of IF dax in PowerPivot. From writing simple IF functions to writing IF inside IFs, we are learning everything
  • How to use IF as a calculated column and as a measure. What is the difference between both approaches.
  • What is a SWITCH Dax and how it is used as an alternate of IF Dax.
  • Learn one of the best Dax – SUMMARIZE
  • How to use summarize in your grand totals and sub-totals.
  • Learn how to customize calculations for pivot fields and pivot grand totals.
  • Learn how to avoid showing data for few fields and how to show data for other fields.
  • Focus on error messages when they come during calculations. Learn what message says about DAX and correct the formulas accordingly.
  • Time intelligence functions – How to find cumulative sums of sales year-wise, month-wise, or quarterly basis.
  • How to calculate the closing balance – month-wise or year-wise
  • How to find the start of the year
  • How to find the end of the year, month or quarter
  • Create calendar table and why it is important before using time intelligence functions and how to edit or create a relationship with main tables.
  • How to add or whatever calculation to be done based on two dates – DATEBETWEEN

Goals

  • This is PowerPivot with DAX Part2 and it is in continuation to part1. This course will make you superb in PowerPivot DAX Language.

  • This course will give you insight on the importance of DAX in PowerPivot and how it has no comparison with old traditional pivots.

  • You will learn HASONEVALUE Dax

  • You will learn IF statements - Basic to advance

  • How to use SWITCH Dax - Which one is better - IF or SWITCH

  • How to use IF as a calculated column and as a measure and which option is best or should you use when.

  • TOPN Dax for calculating the TOP entries from different date ranges

  • How to customize the pivot fields calculations with grand totals and sub-totals

  • In section2 learn about Time Intelligence DAX functions from scratch.

  • Practical examples in day-to-day life also has been explained.

  • Learn what is DAX Studio

  • How to download it and how to launch it in power pivot

  • Do we really need DAX Studio and for what purposes it can be used.

  • Another amazing DAX - Summarize with practical examples.

  • What is implicit and Explict measures

  • Which one better and why - Implicit or Explicit

Prerequisites

  • You should have seen this course Part1 as this is in continuation to the previous one.

  • You should be familiar with PowerPivot DAX language as this course is not intended for those who lacks knowledge of power pivot.

  • You should have Excel 2013 or afterwards versions which supports powerpivot.

Power Pivot With Dax (Basic To Advance Course)

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Course Begins
41 Lectures
  • play icon Introduction to PowerPivot – Installation Process 10:43 10:43
  • play icon Learn now how to import data into this incredible Tool 21:00 21:00
  • play icon What if Data is outside the Excel – How to Import it then? 16:33 16:33
  • play icon Create Calculated Columns and Measures – Its first step 48:20 48:20
  • play icon DAX – Data analysis expressions – Basics of Incredible formula language 47:16 47:16
  • play icon DAX ITERATORS – How they function and Rules to follow 39:15 39:15
  • play icon Introducing CALCULATED DAX – the most powerful and versatile function ever 18:27 18:27
  • play icon What is this ALL Dax – Take your data control to next level 16:52 16:52
  • play icon More Discussion on ALL Family Dax 35:30 35:30
  • play icon ALL EXCEPT – You cannot miss this- Get ready to smile 10:44 10:44
  • play icon ALL SELECTED DAX – One more powerful gift to Analysts by microsoft 15:38 15:38
  • play icon Surprise Quiz for you – Let us check where do you stand? 42:08 42:08
  • play icon One more exercise for you in DAX 12:38 12:38
  • play icon Secret you never knew- Its fundamentals – Calculation Concept 16:23 16:23
  • play icon How about Using VLOOKUP in PowerPivot – RELATED DAX -Simple yet Powerful 38:20 38:20
  • play icon More discussion on RELATED Dax- Deep dive into it 14:51 14:51
  • play icon What is a RELATEDTABLE and its practical Use in Data Analytics 16:39 16:39
  • play icon More deep understanding – You will love it 06:26 06:26
  • play icon Data Modelling with Relationships – One to One, Many to Many and One to Many 33:34 33:34
  • play icon Data Modelling Many to Many Relationships Challenges 19:23 19:23
  • play icon Many to Many Relationship – One more example 07:02 07:02
  • play icon Surprise Quiz for you – Let us check where do you stand ? 25:40 25:40
  • play icon How to use IF Function as a DAX Measure and as a Calculated column 43:23 43:23
  • play icon How to use IF DAX as a Measure – Just fundamentals and nothing more. 07:49 07:49
  • play icon Switch DAX -Another alternative of IF Function – It is super fast 16:18 16:18
  • play icon Introducing DAX Studio & TOPN Dax -Part1 30:03 30:03
  • play icon How to use TOPN Dax – Part2 04:55 04:55
  • play icon How to use TOPN Dax – Part3 02:46 02:46
  • play icon HASONEVALUE DAX – It is outstanding Part1 13:12 13:12
  • play icon HASONEVALUE DAX – It is outstanding Part2 14:29 14:29
  • play icon SUMMARIZE – Long awaited DAX – Its simply awesome 39:07 39:07
  • play icon SUMMARIZE DAX – Continued.. 45:30 45:30
  • play icon Learn VALUES DAX Part1 18:05 18:05
  • play icon VALUES DAX Part2 15:43 15:43
  • play icon IMPLICIT and EXPLICIT Measures – Must know thing 17:41 17:41
  • play icon Calculate Yearly, Monthly and Quarterly Cumulative in Pivots. DATESMTD,QTD,YTD 26:53 26:53
  • play icon Find FIRST Date and LAST Date based on filter Context. 07:24 07:24
  • play icon Start of year and End of month explained 03:54 03:54
  • play icon Find closing balance – Very useful for finance professionals 06:42 06:42
  • play icon One of my favorites – DATE ADD 14:56 14:56
  • play icon How to add or avg or do any calculation in pivots between specific dates 12:48 12:48

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