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2 Mashingup Data With Power Pivot

Power Pivot is a data modeling tool that was introduced in 2010 as a free Excel add-in. It allows users to analyze large datasets with millions of rows more easily than traditional Excel functions. Key features include joining related tables, analyzing large amounts of data, and performing DAX calculations. Power Pivot can hold unlimited rows of data as long as the file size is under 2GB, thanks to its efficient data compression algorithm. It also makes calculations like distinct counts much simpler than previous methods.

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2 Mashingup Data With Power Pivot

Power Pivot is a data modeling tool that was introduced in 2010 as a free Excel add-in. It allows users to analyze large datasets with millions of rows more easily than traditional Excel functions. Key features include joining related tables, analyzing large amounts of data, and performing DAX calculations. Power Pivot can hold unlimited rows of data as long as the file size is under 2GB, thanks to its efficient data compression algorithm. It also makes calculations like distinct counts much simpler than previous methods.

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POWER PIVOT FOR DATA MASHUP

Power pivot the “Data Workhorse” came into being in 2010 as a free add-in with 6 mind blowing features, it was
one of its kind and one of the amazing offerings by Microsoft outside the Excel umbrella. In today’s scenario Data
Model was originally called as Power Pivot. While Data Model gives you some of the Power Pivot’s capabilities.
However, to realize its full potential you may have to use Power Pivot add-in shipped with Office 365 Pro Plus.

Key Features • Joining 2 related tables


of • Analyzing more than 1 million rows worth of data
Power Pivot • DAX calculations
Tips on importing 100 million rows and working with the data:
 Power Pivot holds unlimited rows with only one limitation i.e. 2GB max. file size for the workbook and available memory.
How it’s possible? Well thanks to the VertiPaq compression algorithm a 50MB text file can easily fit into 4MB when it is
in the Power Pivot grid.
 Count Distinct becomes a calculation option. This type of calculation was previously hard to do. How it was done prior to
count distinct:
 Add a column to the original data that divided 1 by the COUNTIF of a field.
 If a customer showed up five times, the calculation would evaluate to 1/5, or 0.2.
 Add up the five records with 0.2 to get one unique customer.
I have personally done this routine numerous times and it was surely a painful process, thanks to the Data Model,
Count Distinct is two clicks away.

DATA DOJO
JOINING THE TWO TABLES W/O VLOOKUP

In the Power Pivot


window, go to the
TABLE 1

Home tab and OLAP like Pivot Table


choose Diagram
View. Power Pivot
shows your two
tables, side by side.
Create
Relationship
via Data
Modeling
Click the
Country,ID field in
the main table and
drag to the Store
field in the lookup
TABLE 2

table. Excel draws


arrows indicating
the relationship
Inspired by:
Excel 2016 Pivot Table
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