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Product type Book

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240282

Pages 316 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Bernard Obeng Boateng

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Overview and Introduction to Data Modeling in Microsoft Excel

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Data Modeling – Overview and Importance

3. Chapter 2: Data Structuring for Data Models – What’s the best way to layout your data?

4. Chapter 3: Preparing Your Data for the Data Model – Cleaning and Transforming Your Data Using Power Query

5. Chapter 4: Data Modeling with Power Pivot – Understanding How to Combine and Analyze Multiple Tables Using the Data Model

6. Part 2: Creating Insightful Calculations from your Data Model using DAX and Cube Functions

7. Chapter 5: Creating DAX Calculations from Your Data Model – Introduction to Measures and Calculated Columns

8. Chapter 6: Creating Cube Functions from Your Data Model – a Flexible Alternative to Calculations in Your Data Model

9. Part 3: Putting it all together with a Dashboard

10. Chapter 7: Communicating Insights from Your Data Model Using Dashboards – Overview and Uses

11. Chapter 8: Visualization Elements for Your Dashboard – Slicers, PivotCharts, Conditional Formatting, and Shapes

12. Chapter 9: Choosing the Right Design Themes – Less Is More with Colors

13. Chapter 10: Publication and Deployment – Sharing with Report Users

14. Index

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Adding queries/tables to your data model

In Chapter 3, we concluded our extract, transform, and load (ETL) process by loading our queries into the data model.

Our transformed queries are now stored inside our Excel workbook. To find out where the queries are, you can go to Data | Queries & Connections. This will open the Queries pane to your right, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 – How to display the Queries pane in Microsoft Excel

Our queries are also stored in the data model. To access the data model, you can go to Data | Data Tools | Go to the Power Pivot Window.

Figure 4.2 – Enabling the Power Pivot tab

If you are using Power Pivot for the first time, you will get a message box prompting you to enable Power Pivot. After a few seconds, you should see the Power Pivot tab in your command tabs. You can now open the Power Pivot window by clicking the green cube icon in the Data Tools group...