WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
Excel is a powerful tool for analyzing data, including data mining. In this presentation, you’ll discover how to use pivot tables to see data in new and exciting ways. And data mining in Excel is not just for accountants. The tools in Excel can benefit HR professionals as well.AREA COVERED
- An Introduction to Data Analysis
- A brief history
- Why Pivot tables?
- How pivot tables are used in data analysis
- Pivot table basics
- Creating a pivot table on a worksheet
- Manipulating the data
- Advanced pivot tables
- Getting and transforming data
- Meet the Power family
- PowerPivot
- PowerQuery
- Power BI
- Visualizations (aka Charts and graphs)
- Pivot tables
- Transforming and shaping data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Why Excel ®?
- What are pivot tables?
- How to create pivot tables
- Data mining using pivot table
- Best practices
- Data normalization
- Conclusion
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- HR professionals at all levels.
- An Introduction to Data Analysis
- A brief history
- Why Pivot tables?
- How pivot tables are used in data analysis
- Pivot table basics
- Creating a pivot table on a worksheet
- Manipulating the data
- Advanced pivot tables
- Getting and transforming data
- Meet the Power family
- PowerPivot
- PowerQuery
- Power BI
- Visualizations (aka Charts and graphs)
- Pivot tables
- Transforming and shaping data
- Why Excel ®?
- What are pivot tables?
- How to create pivot tables
- Data mining using pivot table
- Best practices
- Data normalization
- Conclusion
- HR professionals at all levels.
Speaker Profile
Jay Carlson
Jay Carlson More than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and 20 years as a technical writer, including working as the technical lead at a top software company supporting their financial software• Co-author of OfficeFest 2007, a self-published series of training modules that includes Using Microsoft® Excel® for Financial Analysis, Microsoft® Excel® Pivot Tables and Charts, as well as Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft® Excel® 2007• SQL and iPhone® developer• Google Data Analytics, Six Sigma, MCSE, MCDBA, ITIL, and SCRUM certified• Southern Illinois University B.S. Administration of Justice• University of Montana M.S. …
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