
Watch this essential briefing to access downloadable exercise and instructor files, unzip them if needed, and follow along with optional practice for the data analysts toolbox course.
Learn to create pivot tables from scratch with clean data, convert to a table (sales data), and analyze by manager, category, town, and date using rows, columns, values, and filters.
Clean and prepare data in Excel by spell checking and standardizing case. Remove blanks and duplicates, format numbers, create a named table, and refresh a pivot chart with 2019 data.
Consolidate data from three worksheets into a single pivot table by turning each into a named table, linking them with order ID, and using cross-table fields.
Learn to group text, numeric, and date fields in pivot tables, creating ranges and labeled groups (months, quarters, years) and easily ungroup data when needed.
Consolidate employee info, department info, and job info into a pivot table by linking through primary keys, name the tables meaningfully, and format the salary sum in a tabular pivot.
Explore pivot table formatting with the design ribbon, apply and customize pivot table styles, including banded rows and columns, live previews, and creating your own custom styles.
Practice building a pivot table from the data, format salaries correctly, and show NRA or a zero for zero values; then apply a custom style to the pivot table.
Learn to use the summarise values by option in pivot tables to display sum, average, and max, rename labels, format numbers, and organize fields with filters.
Master sorting pivot tables with ascending or descending order, custom lists, and field choices like product name or total gross sales, plus grouping by country.
Master advanced filtering in pivot tables and Excel, using label, value, and date filters, top 10 filters, and multi-filter setups to extract targeted sales insights.
Insert and format a timeline slicer to filter pivot table data by date, ensuring date fields are properly formatted. Customize timeline options to view months, quarters, or days.
Explore calculated fields in pivot tables using the if function to apply a 20% tax on sales above one million, and build a grand total with new fields.
Master advanced pivot table calculations in Excel by creating a bonus calculated field and a salary with bonus field, then using get pivot data to populate a separate table.
Learn how pivot charts visualize pivot table data and create them from pivot tables. Choose appropriate chart types and manage data layout and readability.
Format pivot charts with granular styling—adjust plot area colors, borders, data series colors, grid lines, and axis options; add a slice to interactively update visuals.
Explore how to insert and format sparklines in Excel pivot tables to visualize trend data, including line and column spark lines, with top 10 filters and dashboard-ready visuals.
Practice creating dynamic pivot chart labels with a slicer tied to job type, showing contract or permanent, using a helper sheet to build a flexible title and subtitle.
In business, being able to understand, harness, and use data is no longer a skill reserved for a handful of well-paid analysts. It's becoming an essential part of many roles.
If that sounds daunting, don't worry. There is a growing set of tools designed to make data analysis accessible to everyone, in this huge-value, four-course Data Analysts Toolbox bundle we look in detail at three of those tools: Excel, Python, and Power BI.
In isolation Excel, Python, and Power BI are useful and powerful. Learn all three and you are well on your way to gaining a much deeper understanding of how to perform complex data analysis.
This Data Analysts Toolbox bundle is aimed at intermediate Excel users who are new to Python and Power BI. All courses include practice exercises so you can put into practice exactly what you learn.
Here's what each course covers:
Introduction to Python
The basic data types in Python - Strings, Integers, Floats, and Boolean
All about Pythons built-in functions
How Variables and Functions work in Python
How to debug errors in Python
All about Python Keywords
How to use IF-Else Statements in Python
All about storing complex data, including Lists and Dictionaries
All about Python Modules and how to install them
How to install Python locally
How to write your first script in Python
To complete your first Python project
Advanced PivotTables
How to do a PivotTable (a quick refresher)
How to combine data from multiple worksheets for a PivotTable
Grouping, ungrouping and dealing with errors
How to format a PivotTable, including adjusting styles
How to use the Value Field Settings
Advanced Sorting and Filtering in PivotTables
How to use Slicers, Timelines on multiple tables
How to create a Calculated Field
All about GETPIVOTDATA
How to create a Pivot Chart and add sparklines and slicers
How to use 3D Maps from a PivotTable
How to update your data in a PivotTable and Pivot Chart
All about Conditional Formatting in a PivotTable
How to create amazing looking dashboards
Power Pivot, Power Query and DAX
How to get started with Power Query
How to connect Excel to multiple workbooks
How to get data from the web and other sources
How to merge and append queries using Power Query
How the Power Pivot window works
How to set up and manage relationships in a data model
How to create a PivotTable to display your data from the Power Pivot data model
How to add calculated columns using DAX
How to use functions such as CALCULATE, DIVIDE, DATESYTD in DAX
All about creating Pivot Charts and PivotTables and using your data model
How to use slicers to adjust the data you display
Power BI
What is Power BI and why you should be using it.
To import CSV and Excel files into Power BI Desktop.
How to use Merge Queries to fetch data from other queries.
How to create relationships between the different tables of the data model.
All about DAX including using the COUTROWS, CALCULATE, and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR functions.
All about using the card visual to create summary information.
How to use other visuals such as clustered column charts, maps, and trend graphs.
How to use Slicers to filter your reports.
How to use themes to format your reports quickly and consistently.
How to edit the interactions between your visualizations and filter at visualization, page, and report level.
***Exercise and demo files and project files included***
This mega-value bundle includes:
21+ hours of video tutorials
200+ individual video lectures
Exercise files to practice what you learned
Certificate of completion
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