Master the art of loading external data into Excel for use in
reporting, charting, dashboarding, and business intelligence. This book
provides a complete and thorough explanation of Microsoft Excel’s Get
and Transform feature set, showing you how to connect to a range of
external databases and other data sources to find data and pull that
data into your local spreadsheet for further analysis. Leading databases
are covered, including Microsoft Azure data sources and web sources,
and you will learn how to access those sources from your Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets.
Getting data into Excel is a prerequisite for using Excel’s
analytics capabilities. This book takes you beyond copying and pasting
by showing you how to connect to your corporate databases that are
hosted in the Azure cloud, and how to pull data from Oracle Database and
SQL Server, and other sources.
Accessing data is only half the problem, and the other half
involves cleansing and rearranging your data to make it useful in
spreadsheet form. Author Adam Aspin shows you how to create datasets and
transformations. For advanced problems, there is help on the M language
that is built into Excel, specifically to support mashing up data in
support of business intelligence and analysis. If you are an Excel user,
you won’t want to be without this book that teaches you to extract and
prepare external data ready for use in what is arguably the world’s
leading analytics tool.
What You Will Learn
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Connect to a range of external data, from databases to Azure sources
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Ingest data directly into your spreadsheets, or into PowerPivot data models
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Cleanse and prepare external data so it can be used inside Excel
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Refresh data quickly and easily to always have the latest information
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Transform data into ready-to-use structures that fit the spreadsheet format
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Execute M language functions for complex data transformations
Who This Book Is For
Excel users who want to access data from external sources―including
the Microsoft Azure platform―in order to create business intelligence
reporting, dashboards, and visualizations. For Excel users needing to
cleanse and rearrange such data to meet their own, specific needs.
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