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Learn with the Nerds - Excel to Power BI (Recorded Live Event)
Excel's reign in data analytics continues, but Power BI offers a more interactive, visually rich experience with superior analytics and reporting features.
For decades, Excel has been the primary reporting tool of choice for businesses to develop data analytics solutions. While those skills are still important, learning Power BI opens you up to a more interactive and visually appealing experience by offering more powerful analytics and reporting features.
In this session, Jonathon Silva will teach you about some of the most advanced capabilities available in Excel, and how to bridge those skills into a new world within Microsoft Power BI where manual, complex, and arduous reports are a thing of the past. You’ll also learn how Excel and Power BI best work together and understand the migration path to take your existing Excel work into Power BI.
Prerequisites: (to follow along or review later)
✔️ Install Power BI Desktop (https://tinyurl.com/33rcb3rn)
✔️ Download student files: [Learn with the Nerds - Excel to Power BI](https://learning.pragmaticworkstraining.com/api/upload/get/abd7ff16-d98f-4754-b206-dde4b293d712.zip)
After you finish this course:
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- 0:00 - Intro
- 4:31- Session starts
- 22:31 - Power Query Explanation and Import Files from a Folder
- 41:15 - PowerPivot and the Data Model in Excel
- 49:15 - Power Query: Using Unpivot
- 58:16 - Power Query: Splitting Column by Delimiter and Fill Down
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- Full Report Demo:
- 1:10:32 - Part 1: Data Cleansing in Power Query
- 1:54:48 - Part 2: Data Modeling
- 2:02:50 - Migrating from Excel to Power BI
- 2:09:35 - Part 3: Data Visualizations
- 2:29:27 - Part 4: Publishing a Power BI Report
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- 2:36:03 - Using Analyze in Excel
- 2:50:15 - Adding Excel charts to a Power BI Dashboard and App
Jonathon Silva is a Power Platform Expert, Trainer and Consultant at Pragmatic Works. He has a decade of experience as a high school teacher, which he leverages to design and deliver engaging and practical training courses. Jonathon is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Lead Instructor and Train-the-Trainer for Microsoft in a Day events, such as Automation in a Day (Power Automate), App in a Day (Power Apps) and Dashboard in a Day (Power BI). He is also a Power Automate Specialist who creates and shares valuable content on blog and YouTube platforms, offering guidance and insights on how to build effective workflows, apps, reports, and SharePoint sites.
Prerequisites: (to follow along or review later)
- ✔️ Install Power BI Desktop (https://tinyurl.com/33rcb3rn)
- ✔️ Download student files: [Learn with the Nerds - Excel to Power BI](https://learning.pragmaticworkstraining.com/api/upload/get/abd7ff16-d98f-4754-b206-dde4b293d712.zip)