
An introduction to the course
A brief description of the datasets used in this course
Most lectures offer you a chance to work out a solution before we show you how we accomplished a particular solution. We explain that here.
In this lecture we build a report showing total sales and new customer sales on a daily and monthly basis
In this lecture we will show a technique for calculating total, new, returning and lost customer counts
In this lecture we present a different way of showing new customer sales by listing each customer, the first time they made a purchase and the amount of the purchase. A common business scenario.
In this lecture we discuss a very interesting customer analysis technique known as cohort analysis
In this lecture we do a couple more and different ways of performing cohort analysis
In this lecture we show a technique for determining how many customers are making multiple purchases of a product
We are building on what we created in the prior lecture to add some more requested functionality to our multiple purchases report
It can be very useful to know which product a customer first purchases and how much of it he/she purchases. In this lecture we show you an approach for doing this.
In this lecture we talk about a very useful and interesting technique of calculating top purchasers of a product. And, it doesn't always have to be a customer, as we will see.
There is nothing complicated in this lecture but we do show you how important it can be to show what unique products a customer has purchased.
Nothing complex in this lecture but the report that is produced can be extremely valuable to a customer
In this lecture we show how to segment sales data. In this case, by the number of orders placed by each customer.
We start off this section with an easy concept. This is a very important and useful analysis and very simple to set up.
It is often very useful to see trends in sales vs. trends in profit margins. In this lecture we show how to create such an analysis
In this lecture we show a very interesting and useful technique for dynamically displaying the top N sales people for each store location.
In this lecture we demonstrate the very useful technique of ranking sales on multiple columns, specifically, on year and product category.
Power BI has the ability to perform time series forecasting of data to give a business an idea of what their sales (or profits) might be in the future. In this lecture we see how this works.
In this lecture we talk about the Pareto Principle and we see how well it works with our sales data.
Cross-selling analysis is a powerful tool to determine what similar products customer are purchasing.
In this lecture we demonstrate some simple clustering analysis that allows you to see patterns in your sales data.
In this lecture we show a simple technique for showing the top sales for a number of different categories of data. The technique is simple, the report is powerful.
Project description
In this lecture we go through our approach for creating the project
Power BI and DAX provide some impressive capabilities which allows us to perform many types of sales / purchase analysis and customer analysis. We will see much of that in this course.
Basically, a sales analysis is a detailed report, or set of reports, that shows a business's sales performance, as well as customer data and generated revenue, profits, and profit margins. The report defines the strengths and weaknesses of products and sales efforts by referencing historical and current metrics to detect emerging trends that are most relevant to a company.
Sales and customer analysis provides critical values from which analysts can make important business decisions. This enables management to make data-driven decisions rather than relying on guesswork. With insights into various sales channels, companies can discover where their most-profitable customers lie, where additional promotions are needed, and which products need quicker turnover or retirement.
A suite of customer and sales reports gives businesses the ability to pinpoint performance weaknesses and make effective improvements to promote sales, revenue, and profits.
There are at many types of customers, sales, and purchase analysis methods. Power BI and DAX have the breadth and depth of functionality to allow us to perform analysis such as:
· Sales Trend Analysis
· Sales Performance Analysis
· Predictive Sales Analysis
· Product Sales Analysis
· Customer churn (retention)
· Cluster Analysis
· Cohort Analysis
· Segmentation Analysis
· Pareto Analysis
In this course you will learn how to perform all of these types of analyses and much more. And you will get to work on a fun project at the end of the course.