Data Nerds!! Shoutout to ChartMogul for sponsoring this video!! Help support this channel by checking them out here 👉🏼 lukeb.co/ChartMogul Also, thank you Tina and Ken for your help with this video!! 🙌🏼
I personally took this Excel course in Coursera and I absolutely love it! This course introduced me to Power Query and building an interactive dashboard. I applied all the skills I’ve learnt into my current role and created a wow moment to my boss. I created an automated interactive dashboard and with just a single click on the refresh button, all the data is automatically updated. Highly recommend for someone looking to improve excel skills. I am hoping there will be another course released soon!
HI Luke, I wanted to thank you. I come from an Education Background and I make a carreer shift. Your videos inpired me to become a Data Analyst. And a week ago I starded my first job as a Finance Analyst at Citi. This has been a long year and half Journey but I made it happen. Than you so much for all your tips and advice. Gretting from Costa Rica. Keep good content coming : )
Hey Kendall! 👋🏼 This is so awesome to hear, thank you for writing to let me know this! So glad my videos inspired you for this, this achievement is nothing short of your hard work. Congrats again and keep up the studies! 🙌🏼
I am also starting to learn my way to become a Data Analyst. I hope these hard works will someday make me to become one. Anyways, Congrats on your career.
I feel this. I was hired as a Workforce Analyst and the past 6 months have just been migrating everything into Power BI because I made a BI report. Now life is data wrangling, cleaning with queries, and mooshing so many data source together into different reports for different departments...
This guy really knows what he's talking about. Kudos to you Mr. Luke Barousse! You've been an inspiration not just to me but to many aspiring Data Analyst out there.
I just got started with Data Analysis recently. I have no background in programming so I’m learning a lot from online resources among them are Luke’s videos. Such a lucky time to live in terms of skills sharing for people with the access to the internet.
I loved this Video plus the collaboration with Tina and Ken, Very insightful and it's always great to see what you all do for the data community. I was just thinking of upping my Excel Skills, the coursera course you highlighted will surely do the trick. Thanks
I followed a similar path. As a business analyst in a bank, my main tool to deal with huge amounts of data was excel. Processing files with almost a million rows per sheet was a daily routine. Vlookup here, sumifs there and you got your aggregations done. But it was cumbersome. Later, I wrote some vba macros in ms access to do all the dirty stuff of cleaning data, aggregating the data and exporting it into csv before doing analysis in excel. That was better but not optimal. One day, I was wondering if it was possible to overcome the 1 million rows limitation in excel, because I needed to create a new particular dashboard. I did some research and found powerpivot! Wow! That was the discovery of the century. It was so easy now to embed all the data in one file and do all the calculations there! Dax is so powerful. But again, archiving piles of data became tedious, so I learn how to use databases especially sql server. I created a data warehouse and linked all my excel to that database. Learned powerquery. The new challenge was to feed the warehouse daily: vba macros and tsql. Once you use power query and powerpivot, adopting power bi is just natural. Using excel can push you to learn lots of useful things but this app is so powerful that it’s difficult to drop it totally for other tools.
If you learned to store your Ms access tables in SQL and export only pivots that need graphs you’re done. As for excel have a look at Index function. Saw a functioning multiyears, multi clients financial dashboard working perfect with that instead of vlookup. Vlookup is fine for punctual replacement but doesn’t replace 2 mismatch queries and 2 joins.
The best crossover ! again a wonderful video, seeing you guys cheer me up all the time, the video is not only informative, but its also fun to watch! , keep it up Luke ! The BI Analyst joke at the end is HILARIOUS!
Great video! It was very interesting since Excel is normally not talked about enough in the DA/DS world, given there are other tools to use instead. Loved the collab! Also, keep up the good work!
Love your videos Luke! I am more a Tableau/Python/SQL girl, and left Excel long time ago and never used Power Queries - now at least I know what they are :D Thanks and make more of them:)
@@YlmazDALKIRANscallion yes, tableau is very user friendly, has it's own syntax which is very easy to pick up, many functions will be very similar. Tableau Dashboard is a tool like Power BI, I find it very useful for mapping data (spatial analysis). Tableau Prep in comparison is great for cleaning data - a bit like SSIS or Azure Data FActory, but I guess more user-friendly :) I am not a great expert of Power BI, can't compare much.
Haha “that was fast, we gotta give you more work”. And that is why you should wait a couple of days before sending your work to your boss (unless doing more work results in a pay raise). Awesome video!
Great video! I already started working on the Google Data Analytics Certificate, but decided to take a break and work on Excel. I completed the first course in Excel Skills for Business, this last weekend, and half way through course 2.
Wow! This video was amazing! I've always wondered what a data analyst does, and the way you broke it down was as simple as could be. Especially enjoyed the way you'd "bosses" came in with certai requests/demands which further emphasizes situations that you are put into. This was a great one? Thanks again Luke, and looking forward to more of your content!😃
@@LukeBarousse I've realized that Data analytics would be very helpful in the construction industry, as it pertains to planning and project controls. The way you've been able to illustrate how useful VBA and query functions can be for regular reporting tasks, it almost motivates me toward learning those functions as well. Any recommendations where I can begin, with VBA?
@@milner267 Yeah the course I recommend in this video is a good start, link in description. Also this book is a good resource and is how I learned it: kit.co/lukebarousse/book-recommendations/excel-basics-to-blac
Damn! I’m one of the best excel slingers at my company and I never heard about half the things you mention AND make it sound like excel for dummies. You have my sub.
Amazon warehouses depend on Excel for daily reports and there are some crazy complex VBA modules involving get/post http requests, converting JSON data, and sending webhooks. Seeing that recorded macro made me taste my lunch.
Hey Luke, I just subscribed to your channel and I’m also a Navy Veteran. Really enjoy your videos. It is helping me to look into becoming a Data analyst. I am soon going to transition from working in the Oil and Gas field to a Tech field. Going to take the Google Data Analytics course soon through Hiring our Hero’s. Will continue to watch your content.
Heck yeah! Always glad to have a fellow Navy vet following along with my content! 🙌🏼 Good luck with the Google Certificate and let me know if you have any questions along the way!
Hey Nelson, I had the same path- Navy MM CV63, O&G, and currently Data Analyst. Good luck. Btw. doing Capstone on Google Data Analytics. Don’t give up. Full speed ahead.
@@LukeBarousse Glad you talked more about Data model Pivot, M and DAX. That’s how I’ve sticked more with Power BI in the last two years. It’s quick and easy for a small data especially if you used Excel.
@@txreal2 Thanks for the encouragement, and can’t wait to get started. I was a EN LSD42 and CVN76. I am hopeful to start this week on the course. Started watching Luke’s content last week. Very cool stuff.
On an unrelated topic, could you please share some images/videos of your workstation setup? And maybe some explanations? I noticed that it allows you to work in standing position, which is really beneficial for this type of job that necessitates being in front of the screen for several hours a day, and I was thinking about building a similar setup. Suggestion: you could do a full video on how do you cope with potential health hazards of this job. E.g. is there any physical exercises that you would recommend us?
Wow, this is impressive! I come just to finish the Intermediate Excel skills for business for Macquarie university on Coursera, can't wait to start the next course on powerquery and powerpivot
I saw my uni teacher of mechanics pull out an excel sheet that had some spec values of a spring and mass or a piston. It also had a picture with animation of that. When he changed one value, some kind of designative number, the picture and animation changed. That's when I knew it can be used for wild stuff if someone shows you how.
Awesome video as always! Perfect explanation of how Excel goes from being helpful, to being mutated into an entirely new application. And not in a good way. I feel that Excel+VBA is the gateway to "proper" DA, since you get to dip your toes in and eventually say "there's got to be a better way!"
So true! After I started using VBA with excel it really opened my eyes and made me realize that I need to look into the capabilities of other tools. Thanks for this Josh!
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 1) it still has its uses and oftentimes we're forced to use it by the business 2) many people become data nerds by virtue of being exposed to Excel first, and looking into how to do what it does but better and more efficiently
Most sensible overview of spreadsheets I've seen I started using them 38 years ago. What Microsoft finally did is add RDBMS capabilities (Power Query) and quasi-multidimensional data management (Pivot Tables). So, it really is now a 3-headed monster: Spreadsheet, RDBMS and OLAP. Still can't compete with TM/1.
A couple of years ago I discovered the wonders of power query and power pivot. The unfortunate problem with data visualization tools is getting people to adopt something other than excel so I've had to build 1 or 2 excel dashboards for clients against my better judgement.
As a Sales Ops i always have worked with excel data from CRM and plugged on BI tools, i moved to SQL and python before learning how i can make some bullshit tasks only with pivots and vba (since my crm pipelines dont have native power bi integration) holy shit, thanks a lot man
At my current role, I’ve found it absolutely pivotal in teaching the data analysts how to use SQL to get out of excel, as we need to analyse billions of rows. Learning sql is way more powerful for this sort of work. if you have a decent data warehouse, of course. Analysts have come to love SQL and understand it’s not as scary as it once was.
I just started learning a bit more advanced features in Excel, which are entry level for most people. Should I just go right into SQL now or master Excel first?
@@TheChicagoballer I think just continue with excel first... then learn sql to advance your excel or data processing. I think it'll be easier by then too rather than learning sql without knowing what to do/learn
Absolutely THE best video about Excel for data analysts I've ever watched, Luke! 🤩Loved the way you explained PowerQuery and PowerPivot, and there's so much detail you covered. Sick quality as usual!!🤓
I'm happy I found this lol.. I recently started learning Power BI and I could use some motivation right now. Thanks Data nerd 😬 and Tina and Ken. Thank you guys.
Great video. I use vba kind of by design because I don’t have access or permissions to use python or R. Was able to automate a bunch of tasks with it but if I am ever granted permission to use python I would convert my macros over to that language instead.
Hello luke! Thaank you so much for these videos. This game me my aha moment. I want to be a good data analyst. Currently learning excel in coursera. Love from Cebu, Philippines!
Love how you always slip a few sketches into your video to make it more fun to watch ~~ Yeah. Power Query and Power Pivot are such useful tools. and just a few M codes could be of great uses.
Great video, 4:30 I'd say that 'Record macro' is a great tool for learning/remember commands but I don't remember ever using them directly. Tipically you will declare variables and at lest remove all the "Select" "ActiveSheet" and hardcoded logic.
The video is quite engaging and informative. Thank you Luke, I really look up to y'all, Tina, Ken and the rest of the data family 🤗❣️. Keep doing what you know how to do best😌💪🏾.
These are the tools I think I will need to learn in the next few years... Excel - intermediate level Power Query - intermediate level Power Pivot Power BI Python SQL Server IMHO, the key to any project is to use the right set of tools and to try to future proof it with what if scenarios. PS great video!
I usually used Excel as more of a drafting/observe tool to observe a small sample data, build mock pivot tables, know what tables and/or columns I should use as a final interpretation for the project at hand because it would be a pain to do it on a bigger database program
I don't think it's really an either/or decision on tools but use what is best for what you want to do. BI tools are good for repetitive stuff and automated distribution, but I use Excel a lot when I want to model more complex output that would take a bunch of coding to get right. You also tend to get a lot of data in Excel in the business so instead of importing it into a BI tool to analyze, you can just quickly pivot it straight on the source document to start looking at it. It's also good to know because it's pretty much universally available and in some companies you might not have access to the best available BI tools that will do everything you want.
The video was very instructive. I tried Power query two years ago but it was not a good experience. I am sure it was because of lack of experience. It is the first time that someone mention when to use each of the tools. I mean when to use SQL, python, power query, power pivot or power BI. It would be great if you could show more exemplars on each of the steps... Thanks
Starting with data analysis, I think I will put Luke's face to my vision board to remind myself the final goal of being able to answer my boss in such a way an do all these reports for minutes
@2:48 "...make it pretty so my boss thinks I've done some productive work." That truly seems to be a large chunk of the job! (At least from this non-data analyst, religiously watching through your channel!) Cheers! -Tim
Thanks for the video Luke, from my side, I think excel also lacks the statistical aspect of analysing deeply the data, also what I find missing in the video is the tool that makes the data updating automatically by using an API for live updates.
I love this vid. Great content especially recommendations about coursera spec which is great and dax, powerbi for dashboard, db jn py. And of course Tina's appearance :)
Awesome stuff.. I was kinda contemplating lately bout the role that I would like to get into. I'm currently doing vulnerability reports but after seeing your video, I think I want to become a Data Analyst or Data Scientist.
Am I the only one who was looking for the giant bug to jump on Tina's shoulder at the end? 🐢🐢🐢 In all seriousness, wow I had no clue Excel had these features. I gotta do a hard Excel rewind I guess 😀😀. Thanks for the content Luke!! Looking forward to those bottle ASMRs 🤠🤠
I'm not interested whatsoever into being a data analyst, but I thought this video was super interesting. I didn't know VBA could automate the boring things across multiple spreadsheets. Likewise, I didn't know I could combine multiple hundreds worth of spreadsheets without crashing them via importing in the with PowerQuery. Thank you!
4:48 .. you learn quick to not be too quick ;) I liked the video I totally agree. just the other day, I also had a discussion with some so called data scientists.. for smaller ad hoc analysis nothing beats me excel if you import data as csv.. yet, I don't like vba. if I need automation I go straight for R
I'm also a data analyst, but I haven't used Excel in years. We call it a "ghetto" tool in my department. I only use SQL (SSMS/SSIS), Python, R, and Power BI. There is so much more power in those tools than in Excel
Data Nerds!! Shoutout to ChartMogul for sponsoring this video!! Help support this channel by checking them out here 👉🏼 lukeb.co/ChartMogul
Also, thank you Tina and Ken for your help with this video!! 🙌🏼
Would definitely check it out, any trial offers?
@@direct.skc.2 Yeah, actually you can track up to $10k in MRR for free; so it's a good option to try it out
I personally took this Excel course in Coursera and I absolutely love it! This course introduced me to Power Query and building an interactive dashboard. I applied all the skills I’ve learnt into my current role and created a wow moment to my boss. I created an automated interactive dashboard and with just a single click on the refresh button, all the data is automatically updated. Highly recommend for someone looking to improve excel skills. I am hoping there will be another course released soon!
Heck yeah! This is awesome to hear Maria, thanks for sharing your experience with the course!
course link?
@@bicyclekikz14 is in the description
Did you take the Excel course on a Mac? I would love to hear if it is suitable for Mac Users as well.
@@itdataandprocessanalysis3202 Hi, I used Mac but I had to install boot camp to use Excel windows version as Mac version doesn't support PowerQuery
HI Luke, I wanted to thank you. I come from an Education Background and I make a carreer shift. Your videos inpired me to become a Data Analyst. And a week ago I starded my first job as a Finance Analyst at Citi. This has been a long year and half Journey but I made it happen. Than you so much for all your tips and advice.
Gretting from Costa Rica. Keep good content coming : )
Hey Kendall! 👋🏼 This is so awesome to hear, thank you for writing to let me know this! So glad my videos inspired you for this, this achievement is nothing short of your hard work. Congrats again and keep up the studies! 🙌🏼
I am also starting to learn my way to become a Data Analyst. I hope these hard works will someday make me to become one. Anyways, Congrats on your career.
Hello!!
I have an education background too and want to transition into data analytics. Would you like to connect on LinkedIn?!
@@LukeBarousse❤
LUUUUUKKKEEE. Great video bud. Can you re-do it completely for Vimeo though?
🙄 Yes Mr. Jee… 😪
Lol 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣
I feel this. I was hired as a Workforce Analyst and the past 6 months have just been migrating everything into Power BI because I made a BI report. Now life is data wrangling, cleaning with queries, and mooshing so many data source together into different reports for different departments...
The skits are all too real...
This guy really knows what he's talking about. Kudos to you Mr. Luke Barousse! You've been an inspiration not just to me but to many aspiring Data Analyst out there.
I'm taking notes for every videos, Luke. You are like my mentor. Love to see your videos every week.
Your videos are impressive. Love you!
Heck yeah! Thank you so much for tuning in Raghunandan!
I just got started with Data Analysis recently. I have no background in programming so I’m learning a lot from online resources among them are Luke’s videos. Such a lucky time to live in terms of skills sharing for people with the access to the internet.
So true of being lucky to live in these times!! Good luck in your journey Nur!
What online sources did/are using for becoming a Data Analyst?
Can you share your journey with us?? I am interested in this field and like you, have no background in programming.
I loved this Video plus the collaboration with Tina and Ken, Very insightful and it's always great to see what you all do for the data community. I was just thinking of upping my Excel Skills, the coursera course you highlighted will surely do the trick. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it, it was fun to collaborate with them! Good luck with the excel studies!
This video deserves at least 2 mil views. High production value and fantastically edited! Great job!
I followed a similar path. As a business analyst in a bank, my main tool to deal with huge amounts of data was excel. Processing files with almost a million rows per sheet was a daily routine. Vlookup here, sumifs there and you got your aggregations done. But it was cumbersome.
Later, I wrote some vba macros in ms access to do all the dirty stuff of cleaning data, aggregating the data and exporting it into csv before doing analysis in excel. That was better but not optimal.
One day, I was wondering if it was possible to overcome the 1 million rows limitation in excel, because I needed to create a new particular dashboard.
I did some research and found powerpivot! Wow! That was the discovery of the century.
It was so easy now to embed all the data in one file and do all the calculations there! Dax is so powerful.
But again, archiving piles of data became tedious, so I learn how to use databases especially sql server. I created a data warehouse and linked all my excel to that database. Learned powerquery. The new challenge was to feed the warehouse daily: vba macros and tsql. Once you use power query and powerpivot, adopting power bi is just natural.
Using excel can push you to learn lots of useful things but this app is so powerful that it’s difficult to drop it totally for other tools.
Heck yeah, thanks for sharing this journey!
If you learned to store your Ms access tables in SQL and export only pivots that need graphs you’re done. As for excel have a look at Index function. Saw a functioning multiyears, multi clients financial dashboard working perfect with that instead of vlookup. Vlookup is fine for punctual replacement but doesn’t replace 2 mismatch queries and 2 joins.
@@IvoryGoonz exactly! Index with match is much more powerful.
@@komanguy , xlookup wants to have a chat with you!
@@user-fb3iy1wh9v xlookup didn’t exist at that time.
I love how Ken is holding the Google Data Analytics cert in his hand while he's telling Luke what to do
Lol, this is a subliminal message that encourages me to complete that google certif 😅
😂 I didn’t think anyone would notice that! 😂
@@LukeBarousse Maybe for my next interview I can use you as a reference and you can mention my attention to detail ;)
@@devinthedataguy 🤣😂 Do it!
You pretty summed up my daily work and my bosses! May the force be with you Luke. Great video!
Ha! Glad you can relate, these were all based on real life scenarios! 🤣
The best crossover ! again a wonderful video, seeing you guys cheer me up all the time, the video is not only informative, but its also fun to watch! , keep it up Luke !
The BI Analyst joke at the end is HILARIOUS!
Ha! Glad you enjoyed the collab. This was such a fun video to shoot with Tina and Ken! 🙌🏼
This is not only the best but the ONLY helpful video about this topic. I've been searching for months for a video like this
Glad it was helpful, frak!
Love to see all data nerds together. Thank you Luke. Your videos are inspiring!
Great video! It was very interesting since Excel is normally not talked about enough in the DA/DS world, given there are other tools to use instead. Loved the collab! Also, keep up the good work!
Thanks for this Moisés! I loved the collab too, so fun hanging with these two!
Love your videos Luke! I am more a Tableau/Python/SQL girl, and left Excel long time ago and never used Power Queries - now at least I know what they are :D Thanks and make more of them:)
Ms. Dyderska,
Tableau is easy to learn compare to BI and it has a language like DAX?
Glad you enjoyed it Anna! PowerQuery is such a powerful tool! But I think you are in good hands with your current data analytics stack 🙌🏼
@@YlmazDALKIRANscallion yes, tableau is very user friendly, has it's own syntax which is very easy to pick up, many functions will be very similar.
Tableau Dashboard is a tool like Power BI, I find it very useful for mapping data (spatial analysis).
Tableau Prep in comparison is great for cleaning data - a bit like SSIS or Azure Data FActory, but I guess more user-friendly :)
I am not a great expert of Power BI, can't compare much.
Haha “that was fast, we gotta give you more work”. And that is why you should wait a couple of days before sending your work to your boss (unless doing more work results in a pay raise). Awesome video!
Completely agree with the waiting a few days mentality! hahah
Man, it’s fantastic the funny ways you put things up on RUclips channel 😂
Always a pleasure to watch.
Thanks for that!
🎉
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙌
Great video! I already started working on the Google Data Analytics Certificate, but decided to take a break and work on Excel. I completed the first course in Excel Skills for Business, this last weekend, and half way through course 2.
Heck yeah!! Keep up the studies Jon!
I am almost done with the Advanced, and last course in the Excel Skills for Business specialization. Any recommendations for practicing these skills?
Wow! This video was amazing! I've always wondered what a data analyst does, and the way you broke it down was as simple as could be. Especially enjoyed the way you'd "bosses" came in with certai requests/demands which further emphasizes situations that you are put into. This was a great one? Thanks again Luke, and looking forward to more of your content!😃
Aw thank you so much for this and so glad it could help you with understanding this tool! More content to come!
@@LukeBarousse I've realized that Data analytics would be very helpful in the construction industry, as it pertains to planning and project controls. The way you've been able to illustrate how useful VBA and query functions can be for regular reporting tasks, it almost motivates me toward learning those functions as well. Any recommendations where I can begin, with VBA?
@@milner267 Yeah the course I recommend in this video is a good start, link in description.
Also this book is a good resource and is how I learned it: kit.co/lukebarousse/book-recommendations/excel-basics-to-blac
Damn! I’m one of the best excel slingers at my company and I never heard about half the things you mention AND make it sound like excel for dummies. You have my sub.
Amazon warehouses depend on Excel for daily reports and there are some crazy complex VBA modules involving get/post http requests, converting JSON data, and sending webhooks. Seeing that recorded macro made me taste my lunch.
Thanks for sharing this Scott
Hey Luke, I just subscribed to your channel and I’m also a Navy Veteran. Really enjoy your videos. It is helping me to look into becoming a Data analyst. I am soon going to transition from working in the Oil and Gas field to a Tech field. Going to take the Google Data Analytics course soon through Hiring our Hero’s. Will continue to watch your content.
Heck yeah! Always glad to have a fellow Navy vet following along with my content! 🙌🏼 Good luck with the Google Certificate and let me know if you have any questions along the way!
Hey Nelson, I had the same path- Navy MM CV63, O&G, and currently Data Analyst. Good luck. Btw. doing Capstone on Google Data Analytics. Don’t give up. Full speed ahead.
@@LukeBarousse Glad you talked more about Data model Pivot, M and DAX. That’s how I’ve sticked more with Power BI in the last two years. It’s quick and easy for a small data especially if you used Excel.
@@txreal2 Thanks for the encouragement, and can’t wait to get started. I was a EN LSD42 and CVN76. I am hopeful to start this week on the course. Started watching Luke’s content last week. Very cool stuff.
This video is gold! Lot of insights about limits of excel and how power query, power pivot comes together in power BI.
Thanks for this Risan!!
I'm two months into Courera and stumbled upon this channel (algo gods) Great content. Thanks for creating these!
Aw thanks so much for the kind words Aldrin!
LOVE the collab with Ken and Tina!! Great video!
Seeing the three of you data nerds together makes me smile! Great job :)
Ha! Glad we could do this Andrey!
On an unrelated topic, could you please share some images/videos of your workstation setup? And maybe some explanations? I noticed that it allows you to work in standing position, which is really beneficial for this type of job that necessitates being in front of the screen for several hours a day, and I was thinking about building a similar setup.
Suggestion: you could do a full video on how do you cope with potential health hazards of this job. E.g. is there any physical exercises that you would recommend us?
Love this idea for desk tour / ergonomic recommendations for a healthy lifestyle… let me see what I can do on this!!!
Man I love the crossover in this one. All my fav analysts in one spot.
Thanks Seth! This was a fun one to make!
Wow, this is impressive! I come just to finish the Intermediate Excel skills for business for Macquarie university on Coursera, can't wait to start the next course on powerquery and powerpivot
On the same path, now nearing the end of Part 4... Good luck dude
@@sifrank9268 💪💪💪
Me too! Just completed Intermediate part I and on the way to Intermediate Part II
@@venkatprasath01 good luck dude 💪
I just started on it
Really enjoy the videos, I watch most of them multiple times.
Thanks Pito!!
One of my fav videos yet. For my first data analyst role they only use excel but this video helped me look beyond what I am doing now.
Glad it was helpful, Pito; and thanks for the kind words!
I like how united you are as data nerds!
I saw my uni teacher of mechanics pull out an excel sheet that had some spec values of a spring and mass or a piston. It also had a picture with animation of that. When he changed one value, some kind of designative number, the picture and animation changed. That's when I knew it can be used for wild stuff if someone shows you how.
This sounds interesting, thanks for sharing this Yuppi!
Awesome video as always! Perfect explanation of how Excel goes from being helpful, to being mutated into an entirely new application. And not in a good way.
I feel that Excel+VBA is the gateway to "proper" DA, since you get to dip your toes in and eventually say "there's got to be a better way!"
So true! After I started using VBA with excel it really opened my eyes and made me realize that I need to look into the capabilities of other tools. Thanks for this Josh!
But if we all know that now to begin with, why would we waste our time with Excel?
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 1) it still has its uses and oftentimes we're forced to use it by the business
2) many people become data nerds by virtue of being exposed to Excel first, and looking into how to do what it does but better and more efficiently
Surely the smart businesses are those that learn from, not just their own mistakes, but those of others as well.
@@JoshBabin And excel vba has the Declare statement, so you can insert C pure code into your solution (Win32 API).
Most sensible overview of spreadsheets I've seen I started using them 38 years ago. What Microsoft finally did is add RDBMS capabilities (Power Query) and quasi-multidimensional data management (Pivot Tables). So, it really is now a 3-headed monster: Spreadsheet, RDBMS and OLAP. Still can't compete with TM/1.
I like this analogy of 3-headed monster!
A couple of years ago I discovered the wonders of power query and power pivot. The unfortunate problem with data visualization tools is getting people to adopt something other than excel so I've had to build 1 or 2 excel dashboards for clients against my better judgement.
Your video is a nice one. I do have plenty in my channel. Yet, its something i have ever liked to watch the method of teaching.
As a Sales Ops i always have worked with excel data from CRM and plugged on BI tools, i moved to SQL and python before learning how i can make some bullshit tasks only with pivots and vba (since my crm pipelines dont have native power bi integration) holy shit, thanks a lot man
Дякую, дуже корисне відео. Шкода що не натрапив на цей канал раніше.
Я радий, що ти знайшов його
Look! Data people can be fun too! More, please. I am inspired.
hey I have decided to become a data analyst, I've math degree, I fall in love with your contents since I stumbled across
Heck yeah! Thanks for following along!
At my current role, I’ve found it absolutely pivotal in teaching the data analysts how to use SQL to get out of excel, as we need to analyse billions of rows.
Learning sql is way more powerful for this sort of work. if you have a decent data warehouse, of course.
Analysts have come to love SQL and understand it’s not as scary as it once was.
Very much agree with the ease of SQL!! Thanks for sharing this Josh
How are they learning SQL? Are you or someone in the company teaching it or are you following some other training?
I just started learning a bit more advanced features in Excel, which are entry level for most people. Should I just go right into SQL now or master Excel first?
@@TheChicagoballer I think just continue with excel first... then learn sql to advance your excel or data processing. I think it'll be easier by then too rather than learning sql without knowing what to do/learn
What about if i know Python? Do i still need to know and use Excel or can i do everything in Python instead? Im still new so i dont know.
Absolutely THE best video about Excel for data analysts I've ever watched, Luke! 🤩Loved the way you explained PowerQuery and PowerPivot, and there's so much detail you covered. Sick quality as usual!!🤓
Aw thanks so much, Thu! I’m just trying to keep up with your quality of content! 🙌🏼
@@LukeBarousse Aw I'm so flattered🙈🤣
Thanks for lending me your suit! 🐙
Anything to get you from stop showing me those "I am the octopus" videos 😱🙀🫣
@@LukeBarousse ruclips.net/video/z9H7LkFCkSw/видео.html
I'm happy I found this lol.. I recently started learning Power BI and I could use some motivation right now. Thanks Data nerd 😬 and Tina and Ken. Thank you guys.
Glad you found this as well Sandra!
Long Live Excel! Thanks for making this video! 🤘🔥
Thank you my dude!
Great video. I use vba kind of by design because I don’t have access or permissions to use python or R. Was able to automate a bunch of tasks with it but if I am ever granted permission to use python I would convert my macros over to that language instead.
Finally someone didn't underestimated Excel in Data Analysis.
Heck yeah! 🙌🏼
The tan marks on his face makes me believe he's a data analyst at day and the batman at night
love your videos 🖤🖤
hahaha
So many great cameos! And a great explanation about how to really take your skills to the next level in Excel. I will say I am not a huge VBA fan 😬.
After my fiasco with VBA i'm the same way! !pend your time learning better languages 🙌🏼
Also hope to have the video with you launching next week! 🤞🏼
Hello luke! Thaank you so much for these videos. This game me my aha moment. I want to be a good data analyst. Currently learning excel in coursera.
Love from Cebu, Philippines!
Keep up the hard work Ted!
Dude made me love data analysis in one video. 😂
Love how you always slip a few sketches into your video to make it more fun to watch ~~ Yeah. Power Query and Power Pivot are such useful tools. and just a few M codes could be of great uses.
Gotta keep this data stuff interesting; thanks for the kind words Cheng!
Great video, 4:30 I'd say that 'Record macro' is a great tool for learning/remember commands but I don't remember ever using them directly. Tipically you will declare variables and at lest remove all the "Select" "ActiveSheet" and hardcoded logic.
Very much can agree with this!
OMG I LOVE THE COLLAB
The video is quite engaging and informative.
Thank you Luke, I really look up to y'all, Tina, Ken and the rest of the data family 🤗❣️.
Keep doing what you know how to do best😌💪🏾.
Aw thank you so much for this Ada! So fun making this video with Tina and Ken and glad you enjoyed it!
These are the tools I think I will need to learn in the next few years...
Excel - intermediate level
Power Query - intermediate level
Power Pivot
Power BI
Python
SQL Server
IMHO, the key to any project is to use the right set of tools and to try to future proof it with what if scenarios.
PS great video!
Very much agree with the last point on using the right set of tools being the key!!
I usually used Excel as more of a drafting/observe tool to observe a small sample data, build mock pivot tables, know what tables and/or columns I should use as a final interpretation for the project at hand because it would be a pain to do it on a bigger database program
Yep! Excel can be great for this use at prototyping!
Nothing could've prepared me for the Tina Walk-in as the Boss' Boss😲🙌🏾💥🔥
She’s the only acceptable person to play this role!! 🙌🏼
I don't think it's really an either/or decision on tools but use what is best for what you want to do. BI tools are good for repetitive stuff and automated distribution, but I use Excel a lot when I want to model more complex output that would take a bunch of coding to get right. You also tend to get a lot of data in Excel in the business so instead of importing it into a BI tool to analyze, you can just quickly pivot it straight on the source document to start looking at it. It's also good to know because it's pretty much universally available and in some companies you might not have access to the best available BI tools that will do everything you want.
Thanks for making this video interesting and easier to consume.
Very insightful and needed. Thank you Luke!
I love the collaboration too Hi Tina and Luke❤️
Aw thank you! And loved the collaboration as well, Tina is so awesome to work with! 🙌🏼
The video was very instructive. I tried Power query two years ago but it was not a good experience. I am sure it was because of lack of experience. It is the first time that someone mention when to use each of the tools. I mean when to use SQL, python, power query, power pivot or power BI. It would be great if you could show more exemplars on each of the steps...
Thanks
Thanks for this Santiago!! And let me see what I can do about this video idea! 🙌🏼
Thank you, Luke,
Best teacher on youtube :)
Keep rocking insh'Allah
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
That ending made me smile
😜🙌🏼
You just explained the entire use of Excel in 2022. This is a Gem, hence bookmarking it
Aw thank you for bookmarking it!!
@@LukeBarousse About to finish my Goggle DA certificate by next week. Looking to collab with you someday
@@ArghyaDas793 Heck yeah!! 🙌🏼
Starting with data analysis, I think I will put Luke's face to my vision board to remind myself the final goal of being able to answer my boss in such a way an do all these reports for minutes
Your videos are always very entertaining! I loved the collab!
Aw thanks for tuning in for this!! The collabs were so much fun!
@2:48 "...make it pretty so my boss thinks I've done some productive work."
That truly seems to be a large chunk of the job! (At least from this non-data analyst, religiously watching through your channel!)
Cheers!
-Tim
😂 Ha! So true, also thanks for catching this joke Tim! hahaha
It was really awesome. I know now what to learn in excel. Thanks buddy.
Firstly it was just tables with rows and columns.
Today excel is more than powerful calculating instrument and data operation tool.
Thanks for sharing this perspective
This video is my life. Love the end. Because I get task exactly like this.
Ugh can relate all too well with this kind of tasking 😥
Thanks Luke for the brilliant content.
Great video! And collab is amazing, all the fun and irony! Thank you
Aw thank you Kate! We do love some Tina (and Ken)!!
I really like your all-detailed Information, Thank you
I love the usage of Windows sounds now and than :D
ha! Thank you for noticing, threw them in for fun!
11:04
Luke:”Does that come with a payraise?”
Boss:No💀
I loved the collaboration.
And learned new features from excel that I didn’t know
Ha! Love me some Tina and Ken as well! Thanks for tuning in!
@@LukeBarousse it’s me to thank you.
Following ur videos has been the base of my Data analyst journey
For the first time, I had to slow down the video, haha. Thank you Luke for this insightful video.
😜 Maybe I tried to jam too much info in. ha!
Thanks for the video Luke, from my side, I think excel also lacks the statistical aspect of analysing deeply the data, also what I find missing in the video is the tool that makes the data updating automatically by using an API for live updates.
Thanks for watching and for sharing this Gam!
Thank you unlocked a new dimension of excel 😳👍
Glad it helped!
That was so funny, Luke.
I love it.
10:55 Painfully accurate 😭
Now we need about using visualization
😳.... Something may be coming on this!
Love the crew in the video :)
Heck yeah love me some tina and ken!
I love this vid. Great content especially recommendations about coursera spec which is great and dax, powerbi for dashboard, db jn py. And of course Tina's appearance :)
TIna’s appearance was my favorite as well! 😜
Awesome stuff.. I was kinda contemplating lately bout the role that I would like to get into. I'm currently doing vulnerability reports but after seeing your video, I think I want to become a Data Analyst or Data Scientist.
Yay Tina!! This was a great video. Very informative and the comedy makes it fun to learn as well!
It was so awesome having Tina in this video! Glad you enjoyed it Erin!
4:20 @Tina Huang Entry is Super cool 😂😂😂😂I really like her, she is adorable
Totes Adores!! 🙌🏼😂
Great video Luke! Looks like I should dive deeper in the Excel universe!
It's not a bad skill to have
Am I the only one who was looking for the giant bug to jump on Tina's shoulder at the end? 🐢🐢🐢
In all seriousness, wow I had no clue Excel had these features. I gotta do a hard Excel rewind I guess 😀😀. Thanks for the content Luke!! Looking forward to those bottle ASMRs 🤠🤠
We have to collect more reaction videos of Tina getting frightened! Would be a funny video to put together! 😂😂
Thanks for watching, Sebi!! 🐢🐢
I'm not interested whatsoever into being a data analyst, but I thought this video was super interesting. I didn't know VBA could automate the boring things across multiple spreadsheets. Likewise, I didn't know I could combine multiple hundreds worth of spreadsheets without crashing them via importing in the with PowerQuery. Thank you!
Well I'm glad you found this video resourceful, John!
Top notch! I can't say anything. WoW!
4:48 .. you learn quick to not be too quick ;) I liked the video I totally agree. just the other day, I also had a discussion with some so called data scientists.. for smaller ad hoc analysis nothing beats me excel if you import data as csv.. yet, I don't like vba. if I need automation I go straight for R
Such a better choice!
Burst out laughing at the photo frame swap
Somebody noticed finally 😳
Give Tina & Ken the Oscar already
That’s what I’m talking about!! 👏 love these two!
I'm also a data analyst, but I haven't used Excel in years. We call it a "ghetto" tool in my department. I only use SQL (SSMS/SSIS), Python, R, and Power BI. There is so much more power in those tools than in Excel
I can agree that there is a lot of power in those other tools