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Training Description:

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science and the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Big Data..

Excel is one of the most widely used solutions for analyzing and visualizing data. It now includes tools that enable the analysis of more data, with improved visualizations and more sophisticated business logics. In this data science course, you will get an introduction to the latest versions of these new tools in Excel 2016 from an expert on the Excel Product Team at Microsoft.

Learn how to import data from different sources, create mashups between data sources, and prepare data for analysis. After preparing the data, find out how business calculations can be expressed using the DAX calculation engine. See how the data can be visualized and shared to the Power BI cloud service, after which it can be used in dashboards, queried using plain English sentences, and even consumed on mobile devices.

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What you'll learn

• Gather and transform data from multiple sources
• Discover and combine data in mashups
• Learn about data model creation
• Explore, analyze, and visualize data

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Speakers:

Dany Hoter - Solutions ArchitectDataRails

 

Jonathan Sanito - Senior Content DeveloperMicrosoft