Power Pivot and Power Bi: The Excel User's Guide to Dax, Power Query, Power Bi & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016,2nd Edition

Power Pivot and Power Bi: The Excel User's Guide to Dax, Power Query, Power Bi & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016,2nd EditionMicrosoft 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 the world s foremost PowerPivot blogger and practitioner, the book s concepts and approach are introduced in a simple, step step manner tailored to the

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 the world s foremost PowerPivot blogger and practitioner, the book s concepts and approach are introduced in a simple, step--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. It includes lessons on the difference between calculated columns and measures; how formulas can be reused across reports of completely different shapes; how to merge disjointed sets of data into unified reports; how to make certain columns in a pivot behave as if the pivot were filtered while other columns do not; and how to create time-intelligent calculations in pivot tables such as Year over Year and Moving Averages whether they use a standard, fiscal, or a complete custom calendar. 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 to within the pages of this easy-to-follow guide. This updated second edition covers new features introduced with Office 2015."About the AuthorRob Collieis an entrepreneur, author, and consultant. He was one of the founding engineers behind PowerPivot at Microsoft and operates the world s leading PowerPivot website, PowerPivotPro.com. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.AvichalSingh is a business analyst at Microsoft and a frequent guest blogger on PowerPivotPro.com. He lives in Seattle."