Lynda - Creating Excel Power Pivot and Power View Dashboards | 1.71GB

Duration: 1h 12m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

All it takes to point your business in the right direction are some strategic insights from your data. In this course, author Ron Davis uses the Power Pivot and Power View plugins to build robust dashboards for analyzing key metrics in Excel—all in just over an hour. First, learn some dashboard design guidelines—such as understanding your audience and identifying necessary metrics—before getting started. Then Ron walks you through importing data, setting up calculated fields and columns, creating key performance indicators (KPIs), and building the PivotTables and PivotCharts for the dashboards. Last, find out how to add charts and eye-catching visuals with Power View, in order to make your dashboards easily understood.

Topics include:

* Dashboard design guidelines

* Importing data

* Relating data

* Creating calculated fields and columns

* Creating KPIs

* Adding a linked table to the data model

* Creating PivotTables and PivotCharts

* Adding Power View visualizations

* Formatting with color

* Reviewing the completed dashboard