Excel Pivot Tables and Data Analysis
Course Type
Scheduled:
| Date |
Location |
Duration |
Cost |
| 19 Jun 2012 (Tue) | Washington | 1 | £ 195 |
| 17 Aug 2012 (Fri) | Washington | 1 | £ 195 |
| 19 Oct 2012 (Fri) | Washington | 1 | £ 195 |
| 04 Dec 2012 (Tue) | Washington | 1 | £ 195 |
| All prices exclude VAT |
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Private
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| This outline is available as a private course. Please contact us to arrange this course at a venue and date of your choice. |
Private courses can be held at your site or one of our training venues, and can be customised to fit your requirements.
You can choose to have a private course based on an existing outline or you can choose the most applicable lessons from a number of different outlines and consolidate them into one course.
We can also write bespoke courses to fit your specific requirements, whether you require training on a standard application or a bespoke inhouse system.
Please contact us to discuss this further on 0191 377 8377.
Course Overview
This course is designed for individuals who have a need to summarise data using Microsoft Excel's powerful Pivot Table feature. After the course delegates will be able to create pivot tables based on data both within Microsoft Excel and from an external source.
Prerequisites
- To ensure your success, you must have a good grounding in Microsoft Excel (to at least our Level 2 course standard or equivalent) and knowledge of relational database structures would be an advantage but is not a requirement.
Objectives
Other courses in this series: Course Content
Session 1
Data Sources
Good Table / List design (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access or otherwise)
Sorting & Filtering data
Grouping and summarising data
Pivot Table - Dimensions
Creating a pivot table, manually or using wizards
Basic Dimensions - Rows & Columns
Basic Measures - Summary field
Basic Sorting and Filtering
Rearranging "Pivoting" fields in a pivot table
The 3rd Dimension - Pages (Report filters)
Bursting Pages & Drilling down in Pivot tables
Pivot Table - Measures
More Measures - Summary field re-use and data typing
Manual Grouping
Data alignments and orientation
Pivot Table - Formulas
Creating calculated field in pivot tables
Calculated Items - Calculated Fields
Limitations of formulas
Session 2
Pivot Table - Statistics
Using summary data for statistical type analysis functions
Displaying data other than normal summary
Top 10 / Bottom Ranking analysis
Multiple orientation data grouping (year on year analysis)
Pivot Table - Databases
Connecting to external data sources, far too big to show in Microsoft Excel
Connecting to Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server databases
Connecting to Web Based, Microsoft SharePoint data
Pivot Charts
Creating and locating Pivot Charts attached to Pivot Tables
Pivot Tables - ODBC / MS Query
If time allows, and delegates are skilled enough, we will discuss making ODBC connection and using MS Query to interrogate larger databases directly, using Pivot Table techniques
Pivot Tables - OLAP Cubes
If time allows, and delegates are skilled enough, we will discuss making OLAP connections and using Pivot Tables to interrogate Data Cubes, and the limitations therein.
Training Options
- Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
- Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
- For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377
What's Included
- 1 delegate per computer
- Telephone and email support
- Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
- Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
Microsoft is a Registered Trademark
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