I used to use your forum/ website about 10 years ago to learn a lot about excel. It is amazing how the internet allow you to also come to youtube and do these further explainers and with a little sketch! Thanks for all your work and for being around all this time!
Always loved your website when I was working in IT - great to see you on TH-cam as well - you got me so many brownie-points with your dashboard tutorials. You are in my Hall of Fame of Excel heroes.
@@chandoo_ Well, I did not expect a reply! Just wanted to let you know what a great job you're doing, please keep it up - tutorial/example sites like yours are invaluable to so many people
I have been working so much with Power Bi and M over the last few months that I nearly forgot about the excel basics. DAX in Power Pivot? I did not know about that but it gets a really BIG thumbs up from me. Thanks for showing.
I still use Power Pivot every day even though I've moved on to Power BI. Measure portability and the advantage of DAX measures over calculated fields/calculated items in standard Pivot Tables are key selling points of Modern Excel, aka Power Pivot. And Power Query gives you reusability of data transformations so you spend less time manipulating data & more time analyzing your operations.
I appreciate the way you bring across the content as if you are having a conversation, it made what could have been a complex thing to explain quite easy to understand. Thank you!
I use both types all the time. One thing I miss in PP is the grouping feature in the rows from std. pvt tables. Building that into PP requires a ‘more advanced’ knowledge of DAX. BTW: DAX as a formula language is quite cryptic IMO, or as Alberto F. puts is: DAX is simple but it’s not easy. Still, the added power of PP is undeniable.
Thanks for that. Yes, we are not able to "Group" with Power Pivot tables. I show a trick to get grouping in this video 👉 th-cam.com/video/_J23sAGyztY/w-d-xo.html
@@chandoo_ Thanks for that referenced video. :-) The thing is: it is not generic enough: I use/need the grouping for creating histograms, which in std. Pivot tables is easy to do,… and to reconfigure on the spot. (Nowadays you can also use dynamic arrays for this, as well.) And I mean: for more than ‘just’ dates. In order to do this dynamically (variable bin size) you need to use more advanced DAX functions (…) If you have a way of doing that (and a video to show it), I’d be happy to watch it. :-)
I understand. My preferred method is to use Power Query and create "conditional column" with arbitrary bucket boundaries. If you have Power BI, you can natively group values just like we did in Excel.
Power Pivot and Power Query are very powerful indeed. My complaint is that it's a lot of clicking and submenus. Almost immediately you get into DAX (for Power Pivot) and M language (for Power Query). Alternatively, you can use Python to clean your data, calculate what you need and write an excel file for plotting and sharing. At the end it's a matter of personal preference, but I find Python applicable to a wider set of problems although it does not fully substitute excel (for me at least).
@@shadowlynxv6082 I don't think so and it is not what I meant. I use Python to format the data and write a table/excel file. It is then very easy to import clean data with power query in an excel file I use for visualisation (copy-paste also works for relative small sets). The problem with power query/pivot is that it becomes exponentially more difficult if you have to manipulate data.
Too messy, and one has to learn yet another programming language. Excel, if you understand it, cleans and tranforms data excellently. Power Query and Power Pivot with 'M' and Dax does 99% of all you need in a practical work environment. Python just adds a new level of complexity with little additional benifit.
Not only did I hit the Like button, but I also subscribed, such is the power of POWERPIVOTS!!!!!! and your awesome humorous video style. Good job bro! Well done! You are, in fact, awesome!
Hi Chandoo, this is to thank you for the amazing, entertaining, and most importantly, instructive videos about Excel. You've truly succeeded in turning a dull technical subject into a funny and informative one, thanks to your talented humor and your smart and interactive scripts. Be brave and keep up the good work. All the best, my friend 😊👍🏻
Even if you don't SOLELY use Pivot tables, you will need them to display the results of your PowerPivot calculations. Otherwise you have several tables with some results at the bottom. Since the interface and functions are so different than Excel, it will be very difficult for less knowledgeable people to edit them. I only use them if I know it will be only me or people who are familiar with PowerPivot who will be editing them or if my clients want a function that isn't available in a Pivot table.
Came for the excellent advice on Power Pivot tables. Left with the bonus of the best joke of the week: "Even Superman looks like a normal dude until he puts the underpants on!" 🤣😂
Awesome content.. very useful for us basic users of excel.. keep it coming dude. I love your humble approach on technical issues with 2 personality acting! I like the superman analogy..😂😂😂
Excel doesn't support Many to Many relationships. You should use an intermediate table and turn the many ↔ many to Many ← One → Many relationship. Alternatively, you can use Power BI, which supports many to many relationships.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Chandoo with Chan2 !!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Super!!!! Humour of the best kind!!!! this could be announced as ChandEL humor! (Chandoo Excel Humor!)
There are more differences than just adding to the data model. There are a few use cases that favor Regular Pivot tables. This is not to say PowerPivot in Excel is not worthwhile. PowerPivot is a new essential for Excel Analyst and introduces the knowledge to PowerBI.
This is great information and related to a project I want to do to track pieces at work. This is just what I need to track them with data across different table information that I have. Thank you
I used to use your forum/ website about 10 years ago to learn a lot about excel. It is amazing how the internet allow you to also come to youtube and do these further explainers and with a little sketch! Thanks for all your work and for being around all this time!
Always loved your website when I was working in IT - great to see you on TH-cam as well - you got me so many brownie-points with your dashboard tutorials. You are in my Hall of Fame of Excel heroes.
Wow.. so good to hear that :)
@@chandoo_ Well, I did not expect a reply! Just wanted to let you know what a great job you're doing, please keep it up - tutorial/example sites like yours are invaluable to so many people
I have been working so much with Power Bi and M over the last few months that I nearly forgot about the excel basics. DAX in Power Pivot? I did not know about that but it gets a really BIG thumbs up from me. Thanks for showing.
Great to hear!
I still use Power Pivot every day even though I've moved on to Power BI. Measure portability and the advantage of DAX measures over calculated fields/calculated items in standard Pivot Tables are key selling points of Modern Excel, aka Power Pivot. And Power Query gives you reusability of data transformations so you spend less time manipulating data & more time analyzing your operations.
AWESOME points... With "Analyze in Excel" you can build your models in Power BI and still have them available in Excel for reporting.
Why did you move to Power BI?
I appreciate the way you bring across the content as if you are having a conversation, it made what could have been a complex thing to explain quite easy to understand. Thank you!
I use both types all the time.
One thing I miss in PP is the grouping feature in the rows from std. pvt tables.
Building that into PP requires a ‘more advanced’ knowledge of DAX.
BTW: DAX as a formula language is quite cryptic IMO, or as Alberto F. puts is: DAX is simple but it’s not easy.
Still, the added power of PP is undeniable.
Thanks for that. Yes, we are not able to "Group" with Power Pivot tables. I show a trick to get grouping in this video 👉 th-cam.com/video/_J23sAGyztY/w-d-xo.html
@@chandoo_ Thanks for that referenced video. :-)
The thing is: it is not generic enough: I use/need the grouping for creating histograms, which in std. Pivot tables is easy to do,… and to reconfigure on the spot. (Nowadays you can also use dynamic arrays for this, as well.)
And I mean: for more than ‘just’ dates.
In order to do this dynamically (variable bin size) you need to use more advanced DAX functions (…)
If you have a way of doing that (and a video to show it), I’d be happy to watch it. :-)
I understand. My preferred method is to use Power Query and create "conditional column" with arbitrary bucket boundaries. If you have Power BI, you can natively group values just like we did in Excel.
Basically, it acts as an SQL query with join applied 😁
And this data should have been in MSAccess in the first place...
Why do we require 20+ years to have related tables
You are the only guy made learn excel made like watching cartoons.
Power Pivot and Power Query are very powerful indeed. My complaint is that it's a lot of clicking and submenus. Almost immediately you get into DAX (for Power Pivot) and M language (for Power Query). Alternatively, you can use Python to clean your data, calculate what you need and write an excel file for plotting and sharing. At the end it's a matter of personal preference, but I find Python applicable to a wider set of problems although it does not fully substitute excel (for me at least).
Wait. Can you stick Python into Power Pivot. And if so, 1:06 is it better than Dax or M?
@@shadowlynxv6082 I don't think so and it is not what I meant. I use Python to format the data and write a table/excel file. It is then very easy to import clean data with power query in an excel file I use for visualisation (copy-paste also works for relative small sets). The problem with power query/pivot is that it becomes exponentially more difficult if you have to manipulate data.
@@FranFerioli oh. I see.
Too messy, and one has to learn yet another programming language. Excel, if you understand it, cleans and tranforms data excellently. Power Query and Power Pivot with 'M' and Dax does 99% of all you need in a practical work environment. Python just adds a new level of complexity with little additional benifit.
Clicking the like button just for that innovative dialog 😁
This is the best explanation I’ve seen, especially around the mapping. Great job.
"Even Superman looks like a normal dude until he puts the underpants on top". You are wise beyond your years 🤣🤣🤣
Not only did I hit the Like button, but I also subscribed, such is the power of POWERPIVOTS!!!!!! and your awesome humorous video style. Good job bro! Well done! You are, in fact, awesome!
1:11
Even Superman looks like a normal dude until he puts on the underpants on top. Amazing quote ! 🤣 👍
Chandoo, awesome content, as usual. I like the way you have presented it and it was nice meeting Chan2! Good team work.👏
I like the sense of humour in you videos. This gives me a boost to see your videos more and more. Keep it up my Excel Master :)
Happy to hear that!
So you're still using pivot tables 😂
Had to click the like button for that, toing toing sound and expression... 😂😂😂
distinct count has been so useful -- makes things so much easier
Hi Chandoo, this is to thank you for the amazing, entertaining, and most importantly, instructive videos about Excel. You've truly succeeded in turning a dull technical subject into a funny and informative one, thanks to your talented humor and your smart and interactive scripts. Be brave and keep up the good work. All the best, my friend 😊👍🏻
Even if you don't SOLELY use Pivot tables, you will need them to display the results of your PowerPivot calculations. Otherwise you have several tables with some results at the bottom. Since the interface and functions are so different than Excel, it will be very difficult for less knowledgeable people to edit them. I only use them if I know it will be only me or people who are familiar with PowerPivot who will be editing them or if my clients want a function that isn't available in a Pivot table.
Didn't know Excel has this kind of power. Your content is 💯.
You are the funniest excel instructor!
Dooh! I really enjoyed clicking on the "Like" button. (Insert Chandoo's eyebrow movements!). Great job on this content. Cheers!😎
When you put the underpants on top 🤣
Awesome vid dude!
Great video Chandoo. I am also using Power Pivot a lot more, though I still use regular pivot tables for simple analysis.
Glad to hear that Chris. :)
:) Besides providing very useful information,I have a lot of fun while watching your videos.
It is so nice to talk to a smart person...
This explained a lot. Thank you!
Love it. Thank you, Chandoo. You the best!!
Respect to you Chandoo !! ❤❤ following you since 2007!!
Wow.. Thank you so much for being with all these years 😍
Chandoo, I hit the like button You are an Excel Einstein! :)
First time someone managed to stuff underpants into power pivot tables ... super!
What a life saver, thanks Chandoo !
I love his videos! He is a lot of fun and very informative! 🙂
The twins ave a mesmerizing effect, they made me hit the like button!
They thank you :)
That is awesome!
Your teaching skill is on another level.
Came for the excellent advice on Power Pivot tables. Left with the bonus of the best joke of the week: "Even Superman looks like a normal dude until he puts the underpants on!" 🤣😂
This is a great video. Love the humor too.
When Chandoo said hit the like button. I literally hit the like button :D
😎😎😎
Thanks. Learn't something new about Pivot tables. Much appreciated.
You are welcome. Thanks for the super ❤
Was not expecting « Even superman looks like a normal dude until he puts some underpants on top » as an argument for a new excel feature 😂
Hi Chandoo, very helpful…good to see your creative and funny side together!
I know I discovered gold the first day I subscribed to your channel!!!
I hit the like button at the superman joke, thanks Chandoo!
Awesome content.. very useful for us basic users of excel.. keep it coming dude. I love your humble approach on technical issues with 2 personality acting! I like the superman analogy..😂😂😂
Thank you :)
Do you have any tips for dealing with many-to-many relationships in tables?
not possible
Excel doesn't support Many to Many relationships. You should use an intermediate table and turn the many ↔ many to Many ← One → Many relationship.
Alternatively, you can use Power BI, which supports many to many relationships.
Thanks Chandoo bro! Always learning something valuable from your videos.
Wow this channel is improving. Now he adding extras in his videos. Hope it wasn't too expensive.
Woow...great short and well explained video! thank you
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Chandoo with Chan2 !!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Super!!!! Humour of the best kind!!!! this could be announced as ChandEL humor! (Chandoo Excel Humor!)
Could have been better...
Chandoo and Chandont
Instead he should hv used... chandu chutiya.
3rd class humour
First video I watch from your channel. I'm gonna smash the subscribe button😂😂
That effects around like button...was awesome...
👍🏻 Very interesting hint. Funny made clip! 😊
This is what I'm looking for before. Thank you for sharing this!
Great video, and great sense of humor 👍👌💯
The power of the underpants proven! Thank you Chandoo!
Thanks heaps, your videos are "Really"&"GREAT"!
Thank you for the love and super :)
wonderfull man. Loved your video, you make everything looks easy!!! Congrats!!!
Love that you keep it original. Great video. Would help a lot of finance folks.
Excellent . I always learn something from you. 👏🏻
As usual Chandoo is back with wonderful video. Really missing "I saw my Boss" videos 😀...
Thank you! You just helped me solve a huge challenge I had.
There are more differences than just adding to the data model. There are a few use cases that favor Regular Pivot tables.
This is not to say PowerPivot in Excel is not worthwhile. PowerPivot is a new essential for Excel Analyst and introduces the knowledge to PowerBI.
I needed this. Now i know the difference between a simple pivot table and a Power Pivot table. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
That was pretty cool. Liked and now a subscriber
Very Nice. Interesting informative and yet fun to watch video.
Great content man..
Great tips to increase the productivity
Always awesome Chandoo.
Thanks for awesome video always.
5:45 I agree everything else but HR department has most tickets 😂
I too use Power Pivot but many people dont know this. .. Surely It helps Chandoo🎉
Your videos are always amazing Chandoo. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like them!
Funny and educational. Good job.
im not really paying attention yet. but i like this guy. +1 subscriber.
Never seen one of your videos, this was *very* entertaining, especially for an Excel tutorial haha, Great job!
Glad you liked it!
You are very funny! I clicked the liked button.
Really good. Love the presentation style as well. Thank you
Chandoo is awesome, there is another guy who says "Excel is Fun" but Chandoo nails it!
well i would put it this way , Excelisfun is Excel guru & Chandoo would fit in as one of his top student
Ok you won me over with the Superman underwear. Edutainment FTW!
Thanks Chandoo. I’ve always checked the add to data table box but wondered where or what it did
Amazing Chandoo and thank you very much for all your valuable information
Wow! great learning from you!
Nice explanation with having fun
Like it Chandoo 👍
This is amazing! Easy to learn and easy to follow plus the antics. lol.
Thank you for sharing and making the video! very informative and helpful.
Have started power pivots and results are amazing
Great to hear!
Useful. Thanks man!
Brilliant! Love the video.
Amazing information Chandoo. Helping me a lot with my daily activities.
Thank you for the information!!!❤
Awesome! Indeed a game changer in Excel! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, you're an inspiration for us. Couldn't help but notice Chandoo's teeth are like normal distribution plot 😁
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This is great information and related to a project I want to do to track pieces at work. This is just what I need to track them with data across different table information that I have. Thank you
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for putting this together.
amazing video with interactive way :) simply like it... :)
This was really good 😂
wow you earned my subscribe. Very very useful, I'll be using this for work
Awesome video, love it!!!!
Chandoo you are super hilarious.
first seconds was really my reaction and title like a clickbait hhhh bro you nailed it hhhh good good