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This course takes up where the Optima Train Excel 2010 Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts course leaves off. It has two primary themes, each ultimately related to data analysis with pivot tables. First, it teaches you a number of methods for importing external data (from a database, text files, or other sources) into Excel for analysis. Second, it devotes considerable time to the PowerPivot add-in introduced with Excel 2010. To learn Excel PowerPivot and Business Intelligence Tools quickly and effectively, download the companion exercise files so you can follow along with the instructor by performing the same actions he is showing you on the videos.***** THE MOST RELEVANT CONTENT TO GET YOU UP TO SPEED ********** CLEAR AND CRISP VIDEO RESOLUTION ********** COURSE UPDATED: February 2016 ***** “When I first looked up this site I was a bit skeptical, but I soon realized how amazing these courses are. They have helped me excel in all my business classes. The PowerPivot course now makes business analytics easy and at my fingertips." - Wilson Xu, STUDENT“The Optima Train two part series on Pivot Tables is pure gold! The material is so amazingly thorough and clear that anyone watching the videos and doing the exercises provided will without a doubt become a true expert at working with Pivot Tables and likely become a hero at work by applying and sharing this new-found knowledge. There is nothing like it on the market." - Phil, FORMER TREASURY OPERATIONS MANAGER - EXXONMOBIL99.9% of Excel users do not use PowerPivot but those that do are in elite company. Power Pivot allows end users with no business intelligence or data analytics training to develop data models and calculations. The tide has shifted where the knowledge worker can perform analysis on millions of records without using specialized IT software or the help of business intelligence consultants. Learn

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Master BI, Planning Predictive Tools in SAP Analytics Cloud – No Experience RequiredThis course has become one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date resources for learning SAP Analytics Cloud, and now it’s better than ever with our biggest update in two years — including 10+ new real-world demo lectures built using SAP’s latest interface.Whether you're a complete beginner or already working with business data, The Complete SAP Analytics Cloud Course 2026 is your fast track to mastering BI, planning, and predictive analytics — all in one place.Start From Zero and Build Real-World ProjectsWe’ll begin with the basics — activating your free trial and exploring the SAP Analytics Cloud platform — and quickly progress to building stunning dashboards, performing advanced planning scenarios, and using AI-powered features like Smart Predict and the 'Just Ask' assistant.This course is built around hands-on projects and clear, practical exercises that will get you comfortable with SAP Analytics Cloud's full capabilities:You’ll build and practice with real-world use cases such as:Navigating and exploring the SAP Analytics Cloud interfaceCreating your first interactive data story from scratchDesigning live data models using SAP HANABuilding dashboards with scripting and automationEntering budget data and forecasting future performanceUsing Smart Insights and Smart Discovery for instant data understandingCollaborating with teams using calendar tasks and shared storiesCreating a Digital Boardroom and working with SAC mobile and Excel add-insNew to SAP? No worries.This course is designed for learners with no prior SAP experience. We'll explain everything clearly — from core concepts to advanced tools — using a friendly, conve

Want to read 100 pages in 5 minutes? Want a podcast made from your own notes? This NotebookLM Tutorial shows you exactly how to do it.Google NotebookLM is changing how people study, research, and create. But most users only scratch the surface. They upload one PDF, ask one question, and stop. This Google NotebookLM Course takes you far beyond the basics, so you can pull insights from any source, generate audio overviews, build slide decks, create flashcards, and turn raw information into clear output, fast.This NotebookLM Training is made for real people with real work to finish. Students drowning in lecture notes. Creators researching their next video. Coaches building courses. Writers organizing scattered ideas. Professionals who need answers from 50-page reports without reading every line. If you have ever felt buried under information, this course is your way out.Inside this Google NotebookLM Tutorial, you will learn the full workflow from day one. You will set up your account the right way, add sources from the web, YouTube, file uploads, and AI, and decide when to use Fast Research vs Deep Research. You will chat with your sources like a smart assistant that actually knows your material. You will build personal notes, customize prompts for the answers you really want, and produce studio outputs like audio overviews, video overviews, slide decks, flashcards, and quizzes, all from your own content.You will also see 5 real use cases most tutorials skip. How to do course creation research. How to plan skill development for digital creators. How to brainstorm your next digital product. How to pull a clean data analysis report out of messy files. Each one is shown step by step so you can copy the same process for your own work.What happens if you skip this NotebookLM Course? You keep losing hours to manual reading. You keep missing the smart features hidden inside the tool. You keep paying for AI tools that do half of what NotebookLM already does for free. Worse, you fall beh

Level up your Excel data analysis skills by transitioning from Excel to Python seamlessly with my tailored course designed exclusively for professionals. Discover the power of the Python's Pandas library in handling large datasets, automating boring and repetitive tasks, and simplifying data management.What sets this course apart?Real-world Application: This course isn’t a generic Python tutorial. It's crafted by a seasoned finance professional for professionals. Hence, every lesson, tip, and trick is rooted in real-life scenarios.From Basics to Advanced: Whether you're a novice or someone who's dabbled in Python before, this course caters to all. It commences with the foundational aspects of Python and Pandas and gradually dives into advanced techniques ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.Practical Focus: We understand that finance professionals mostly deal with CSV and Excel files. This course primarily revolves around these, but we also touch upon importing data in varied formats.End-to-end Learning: Apart from learning Python and Pandas, get acquainted with the Jupyter Notebooks programming environment. Follow along as we delve deep into importing, inspecting, and manipulating data. Master the art of data cleaning using string functions, and ascertain ways to avoid errors. Conclusively, we’ll guide you on summarizing your data, ensuring it’s export-ready.

September 2018 Added New Content!How to Copy and Filter Data using Excel VBAThis new section comes with 13 Exercises plus full solutions to help you practice and reinforce what you have learned.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------April 2018 Added New Content!Learn how to build an entire Excel VBA application from start to finish. In this brand new section you will see techniques not taught in any other Excel VBA course. This new section(number 15) contains proven principles and little-known techniques that will help you build an application in a fraction of the time it would normally take you. You will also learn tips and tricks that will reduce your errors, make your code more organised, and make your applications easier to maintain and update.This is the only Excel VBA course that shows you first hand, a professional developer creating a VBA application from scratch. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------January 2018 Added New Content! Using Arrays in Excel VBA: 6 brand new lectures.FINALLY! A Way To Write Excel VBA Like a ProfessionalIf you think the top Excel VBA programmers are smarter or more gifted than you, then you're mistaken. Truth is, they use dozens of proven programming principles.... little-known techniques that are completely unknown to most VBA users. What are these principles? How can you learn them? And how can you use them to create your own Macros? In this course, Paul Kelly teaches you dozens of must-have secrets that he learned during his 20+ years as a professional software developer, including *How To Easily Open Any Workbook - I provide the code, You can use it eve