Powerpivot With Dax – Basic To Advance (13 Hours)

Complete Data Analysis and making pivot reports

What you’ll learn
Students will learn PowerPivot and the role of DAX in it.
You will learn why PowerPivot is important for your career and how it has an edge over normal excel pivot.
How to create Reports using PowerPivot.
Implicit and Explicit Dax – Pls check curriculum for complete DAX details. We are discussing everything here

Requirements
Knowledge of Excel formulas is an added advantage.
If you know the Basic pivots it is going to help you in PowerPivot chapters.
Any excel version like 2010 or above is fine.

Description
Section1: We are covering Power Pivot with DaxWhat is a PowerPivot and Why do we need it. How it is going to outshine our normal PivotsImport data from different sources like Excel, CSV Files or Text files or any other database.Get familiar with PowerPivot ribbon and sorting ,filtering options- all basic featuresKnow 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, AVERAGEXWhy they are called ITERATORS – Its fundamentalsLearn 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 challengesDetailed discussion on HASONEVALUE Dax including IF statementsWhat 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 everythingHow 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 – SUMMARIZEHow 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, or month wise or quarterly basis.How to calculate the closing balance – month wise or year wiseHow to find the start of the year How to find the end of the year, month or quarterCreate 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 – DATEBETWEENSurprise Quiz for you to check your gained understanding.

Overview
Section 1: PowerPivot Begins – Everything you need to know

Lecture 1 Get PowerPivot ready

Lecture 2 How to bring data into PowerPivot and other basic things about its window.

Lecture 3 Import external data in PowerPivot

Lecture 4 Create Calculated Column and Measures

Lecture 5 DAX introduction

Lecture 6 ITERATOR Functions SUMX COUNTX etc

Lecture 7 CALCULATE Dax

Lecture 8 ALL DAX

Lecture 9 ALL Dax Continues

Lecture 10 ALL Except DAX

Lecture 11 ALL Selected DAX

Lecture 12 QUIZ 1

Lecture 13 QUIZ 2

Lecture 14 How Measures work in PowerPivot

Lecture 15 Related DAX

Lecture 16 Many to Many RelationShip begins

Lecture 17 Many to Many RelationShip

Lecture 18 Project

Lecture 19 Use IF fx – Calculated Column and Measure

Lecture 20 More discussion on IF DAX

Lecture 21 SWITCH Dax

Lecture 22 TOPN Dax – Very important

Lecture 23 Question for you – Books revenue

Lecture 24 How to sort months in a pivot

Lecture 25 HASONEVALUE Dax

Lecture 26 HASONEVALUE with Subtotal

Lecture 27 Summarize Dax – My favorite – So useful

Lecture 28 Summarize dax – PowerPivot Subtotal Issue

Lecture 29 VALUES Dax

Lecture 30 VALUES Dax Continues

Lecture 31 Implicit and Explicit

Lecture 32 Date & Time functions

Lecture 33 FirstDate & LastDate

Lecture 34 Start of an Year & End of Month

Lecture 35 Closing Balance

Lecture 36 Date Add

Lecture 37 Date Between

This course is for Data , Research analysts and MIS people who work day and night on data and create reports,Those who want to add extra wings to their excel normal pivots – Definitely this course is for you,PowerPivot and DAX are the skills highly in demand in our industry. Booster for your career.