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Business intelligence (BI) with Excel - Power BI Tutorial
From the course: Using Power BI with Excel
Business intelligence (BI) with Excel
- [Instructor] Early on in my career, I used Excel to conduct my analysis for projects. For example, in one of those early projects, I used Excel to study customer satisfaction data for a large manufacturer in the U.S. I would pull data from their internal systems, then clean it up, and finally turn into visualizations that the head of their department would use to understand the major trends in the space. There are three main ways I used Excel early on in my career. First, you have the ability to store data. Excel, at its core, is a spreadsheet tool. Just being able to pull the data out of my company's internal system, where I could manipulate and analyze it, was very valuable to me. Next, you have the ability to create calculations in Excel. This can really help you understand how two fields are related to each other, and it's a great way to uncover trends. Finally, Excel has some basic data visualization…
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