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Advanced Pivot Table: Ticket to Self-service Dashboards

The course illustrates where does pivot table stand in the Excel Techniques, and brings up the topic of when to and when NOT to use a pivot table.

Created byLenny Wu
4.6
(108 reviews)
AdvancedUpdated Jan 20, 2025
Advanced Pivot Table: Ticket to Self-service Dashboards

What You'll Learn

check_circle● Understand crucial elements and skills in building a dashboard
check_circle● Recognize ways of building inter-connected data models for pivot tables and Power Pivot
check_circle● Discover 5 extreme Pivot Table hacks
check_circle● Recognize differences between GETPIVOTDATA() and CUBEVALUE()
check_circle● Understand 7 best practices of building pivot tables in a dashboard

About This Course

The course is presented in four parts.

First, the course illustrates where does pivot table stand in the Excel Techniques, and brings up the topic of when to and when NOT to use a pivot table.

Second, the course illustrates how to build a self-service dashboard using: o pivot tables o pivot charts o slicers o timeline

Third, the course provides 5 extreme hacks for pivot tables including: o How to collapse 12 months data into 1 field? o How to break free of Pivot Tables? o How to use Power Pivot without opening Power Pivot? o How to connect tables without using VLOOKUP()?

Last, the course explores best practices in building a dashboard. They include: o Do follow data table naming convention o Do fix changing column width o Do keep column/bar charts sorted o Do add a heat map for pivot tables

Course Search Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Pivot chart
  • Slicer
  • Timeline
  • Power Pivot
  • Power Query
  • Data model
  • Outline form
  • Calculated fields
  • Calculated item
  • Auto Refresh
  • VBA
  • Macro

Your Instructor

Lenny Wu
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

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