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Designing user interfaces for data entry into your solution
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Introduction
Series intro
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1. Joining Data
Creating unique identifiers between two data sets
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Joining with common data between two unrelated data sets
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Using anti-joins to search for data
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Working with full outer joins
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Using dates for joins
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2. Data Designs
Normalizing data to achieve a data design
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Model or Merge—and what's the difference?
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Scripting views for SQL databases
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Designing relationships for databases
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Creating a SharePoint back end from a database
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Designing a back-end for your reporting solution using Microsoft 365 Copilot and Excel
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3. Privacy and Protection Techniques for Data
Using functions to mask data
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Creating aggregated datasets
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Auditing data and spreadsheets
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4. Transforming Data and Cleaning Data
Using Unpivot to build data sets from survey results
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Cleaning data from a PDF in PowerBI
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Duplicate vs. reference in Power Query
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Cleaning data from a folder of files in PowerBI
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Build conditional functions to make data
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Creating tables and joins to recode data
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Merging data and building basic calculations into a data set
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Mapping data into other software tools
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Creating subgroups for use in visuals and basic analysis
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Cleaning survey data for the purposes of analysis
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5. Making Data Sets
Using Remove Duplicates to create data sets
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Using union queries to bring together data sets in SQL
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Using append queries to combine spreadsheets
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Using make tables to normalize a denormalized data set
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Building date tables in Power BI/Power Query
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Using joins and update queries to create markers in the data
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Adding data leveraging cross joins
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Using date functions to create follow up data
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Using Remove Duplicates to find the latest or earliest record in Excel
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Leveraging the Advanced Editor in Power Query to share cleaning routines
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Building data sets inside of Outlook
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Defining a nomenclature for fields to reduce data issues
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6. Visualize Data
Edit visual interactions
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Build letter size for reports using Power BI Desktop
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Build paginated reports
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Use different pivot formats to share stories
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Building a brief for a data project
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Creating simple data sets with basic visuals for presentations
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Basic visualization of cohort data
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Visualizing data sets in Outlook
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Using Pivot Column to look at Text data in a pivot
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7. Basic Analysis
Perform basic analysis on datasets
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Using analysis commands built into popular tools
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Basic dates analysis
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Analyzing data using a matrix and conditional formats
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Using Case statements for conditional logic in SQL queries
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Establishing a cohort data set
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Adding additional data to your cohorts
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Analyzing top and bottom scenarios
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Understanding and communicating impacts
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Working with different group sizes
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Visualizing Subgroups when searching for insights
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8. Leveraging Copilot for Data in Microsoft Excel
Use Copilot in Excel to teach you about the data
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Use Copilot to build basic functions in Excel
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Use Copilot to do basic cleanup commands
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Use Copilot to see insights in your data
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Use Copilot in Word to build documentation about your data project
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Use Copilot to create a draft presentation about your data project
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9. Designing Relational Databases
Designing a basic system for data capture
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Diagramming data and processes
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Planning a basic system for data collection
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Testing data in your new database design
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Designing basic forms for data entry into your solution
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Testing data entry in data designs
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