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Power Pivot: Big Data Analysis Made Easy

In this course you will learn about advanced DAX formulas, also known as Data Analysis Expressions, and how to connect data from different sources.

Created byLenny Wu
IntermediateUpdated Jun 18, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDiscover Power Pivot as the big data analysis tool
  • check_circleIdentify the best practices in Power Pivot modeling
  • check_circleRecognize Power Pivot’s essential steps in relationship and integration
  • check_circleDiscover 6 essential DAX formulas to get you started in Power Pivot formula writing

About This Course

This course offers a step-by-step introduction to Power Pivot, showing why it’s a more powerful alternative to traditional pivot tables. You’ll learn how to handle large datasets, combine multiple sources without using VLOOKUP, and build models using reusable DAX formulas. We’ll begin with mapping data sources and building unified pivot tables.

Next, we’ll dive into essential DAX formulas like CALCULATE, SUMX, and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR, then wrap up with best practices for naming, formatting, and modeling. This course is ideal for Excel users ready to upgrade their data analysis skills.

Course Content

2 activities • 19 videos • duration: 1h 1m

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Section 119 videos • 1 quiz • 1 hour
  • videocamIntroduction
    Duration 0:30
  • videocamBackground
    Duration 3:39
  • videocamAuthor
    Duration 1:09
  • videocamPurpose
    Duration 0:39
  • videocamPivot
    Duration 5:54
  • videocamMapping 1
    Duration 4:21
  • videocamMapping 2
    Duration 4:28
  • videocamTable names
    Duration 1:36
  • videocamBonus: Relationship
    Duration 3:47
  • videocamDashboard 1
    Duration 2:13
  • videocam6DAX1
    Duration 3:39
  • videocam6DAX2
    Duration 3:42
  • videocam6DAX3
    Duration 5:05
  • videocam6DAX4
    Duration 6:57
  • videocamBest 1
    Duration 5:01
  • videocamBest 2
    Duration 2:44
  • videocamDashboard 2
    Duration 4:16
  • videocamTakeaways
    Duration 1:09
  • videocamNext course
    Duration 0:51
  • quizReview Questions
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Section 21 quiz

Your Instructor

Lenny Wu

Financial Reporting Expert

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Lenny is Senior Financial Analyst at Ausenco. Lenny has over 15 years combined experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting and modeling, and compliance auditing. Lenny supervises Adaptive Insights system budgeting, and is a CPA, CGA, and a Certified Adaptive Insights Professional and Certified Xero Partner. Lenny is a proponent for "One-click Reporting" for analysts and "Self-service Reporting" for executives. He has strong belief that reporting and closing should be hours rather than days or even weeks. Lenny also acted as local CPA chapter board officer and volunteered for Canada Revenue Agency as a Community Volunteer Income Tax Program consultant. Education MBA, Finance : George Washington University - SBPM (School of Business and Public Management) - [1998 to 2000]

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

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Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
87 reviews
  • IA
    Indra A.
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    This was an excellent intoduction to using Excel as a big data analytics tool and I am excited to learn more. Thanks Lenny!

  • GP
    Goretti P.
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    definitely

  • AD
    Amira D.
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    Too advance for my Level of Excel. Just the wrong course for me.

  • LA
    Laura A.
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    Excellent tutorial. Well Done!

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