Excel 2.0 
marcel westra 
mwestra@microsoft.com
Agenda 
• Introduction 
• The new Excel 
• Three steps to create insights 
• Detailed explanation of the new Excel functionality 
• What’s next 
• Questions
Introduction 
Official 
• Ir. Ing. M. R. Westra 
• Sr. TSP Business Intelligence 
Real 
14 years at Microsoft 
Advisor for data analytics projects for 
Philips, ING, Rabo, RDW, Achmea, Heineken and more
Microsoft is changing 
from Windows and Office sales machine to Subscription and Usage 
• Adoption of non Microsoft technology 
• Participation in open Source (Hadoop) 
• Cloud First Mobile first
The mission of Microsoft
Azure
Azure for research
The new Excel (short demo)
Power map 
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=power+map
store and 
calculate 
Data 
maDratta 
mart 
cleansing de-duplication 
Data sciences 
get and 
shape 
find and share 
data sets 
show 
raw data information visualization
Power query Power pivot Power map 
store and 
calculate 
Data 
maDratta 
mart 
cleansing de-duplication 
Data sciences 
get and 
shape 
find and share 
data sets 
Power view 
show 
raw data information visualization
Power Query
How it works
Step 1: Get Data 
• Define Connection to a data source 
• Database 
• Internet page 
• File 
• Hadoop 
• Facebook 
• Odata (www.odata.org)
Step 2: Shape Data 
• Remove Columns 
• Filter 
• De-Duplicate 
• Replace Values 
• Split Columns 
• Change type 
• Unpivot 
• Merge 
• Standard deviation  square and power…
Step 3: Load Data 
• Initial load 
• Append 
• Reload
demo
Get Shape Data 
• Excel look and feel 
• What you see is what you get 
• Rich set of standard data functions 
• Generate reusable scripts
Power Pivot
Power Pivot Engine 
• (unlimited)In-Memory Database in Excel on desktop 
• Column compression 
• Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) 
desktop 
Server 
SQL Server 
Analysis Service
Power Pivot 
• Build relation on the loaded data 
• Add Calculations (and KPIs)
Step 4 build relations
Step 5: add DAX Calculations 
DAX Syntax Specification for PowerPivot: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634217.aspx 
DAX function reference: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634396.aspx
demo
Visualizations
New visualizations in Excel 
• (Time) Slicers 
• Power View 
• Power Map 
• New things will come
Pivot Table
Power View
Power Map
demo
Power query Power pivot Power map 
store and 
calculate 
Data 
maDratta 
mart 
cleansing de-duplication 
Data sciences 
get and 
shape 
find and share 
data sets 
Power view 
show 
raw data information visualization
Share 
• Power Query 
• Power Pivot 
• Power View
Power query Power pivot Power map 
store and 
calculate 
Data 
maDratta 
mart 
cleansing de-duplication 
Data sciences 
get and 
shape 
find and share 
data sets 
Power view 
show 
raw data information visualization
Q&A, natural language
Sketch Insight
Sand Dance 
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sanddance/
References 
Getting started with power query and power map 
Connect Excel to Hadoop with Power Query 
Getting Started with Power Query - Part 1
Other links 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerbi/default.aspx 
http://www.powerpivotblog.nl/ 
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/praktijkboek-powerpivot-in-excel/ 
9200000010047027/ 
Bing (or Google )
PowerPivot and PowerQuery
PowerPivot and PowerQuery

PowerPivot and PowerQuery