Data and Excel Skills
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An actuals versus budget report automated in Excel, the recurring deliverable of every finance team's month end. Build it once here and you will recognize the pattern in every FP&A interview.
Watching is the first half. The second half is doing it yourself while the patterns are still in your head.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Pragmatic Works · on YouTube
PivotTable fundamentals taught on a real dataset: what a clean source table looks like, and how rows, columns, values, and filters turn it into answers. The first data skill every analyst job quietly assumes.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Kevin Stratvert · on YouTube
A compact start-to-finish pivot table build that ends with charts and slicers you can actually present. Good as a same-day refresher before an Excel test or a superday data exercise.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Learn Skills Daily · on YouTube
The long version: pivot tables from the first insert through calculated fields, Power Pivot, and DAX expressions, in a single tutorial of over two hours. Treat it as a weekend build-along, not a preview.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Mohammad Mirshafiei · on YouTube
SQL introduced through the pivot table you already understand: SELECT, GROUP BY, and ORDER BY, with every number checked against the same table in Excel. The gentlest on-ramp to the next language on this shelf.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Kenji Explains · on YouTube
An interactive Excel dashboard built from scratch, start to finish: data, calculations, and the presentation layer in one sitting. Dashboards are how analyst work gets seen, and this is a complete build to imitate.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Kenji Explains · on YouTube
Five methods for forecasting revenue in Excel, compared honestly: when each is defensible and when each misleads. Forecasting judgment is a graded interview skill, and this is its toolkit.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Kenji Explains · on YouTube
Statistics in Excel in fourteen minutes: the functions and the reasoning together, at the level data screens actually reach. A compact bridge between the pivot shelf and real analysis.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Kenji Explains · on YouTube
What to use when XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP start costing you time and errors. Lookup discipline sounds minor until a superday exercise grades your sheet in front of you.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Pragmatic Works · on YouTube
Window functions in SQL: ranking, running totals, and comparisons across rows without collapsing the table. The single largest step up from basic SELECT fluency, and the one data screens love.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Pragmatic Works · on YouTube
T-SQL tips and tricks for beginners, part one: the small syntax and structure habits that make queries readable and correct. A working companion to the first-query lesson already on this shelf.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Pragmatic Works · on YouTube
Part two of Pragmatic Works' T-SQL beginner series, going further into the errors beginners make and the patterns that prevent them. Watch the pair together before a data exercise.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Leila Gharani · on YouTube
What a pivot table actually is, explained by one of Excel's best teachers in purely conceptual terms. The floor under the whole pivot shelf, and the right place to repair a shaky foundation.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Leila Gharani · on YouTube
Power Query for beginners: automating the cleaning and combining of Excel data so the monthly refresh takes minutes. Analyst interviews increasingly assume this, and few candidates have it.
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MediumData and Excel Skills
Leila Gharani · on YouTube
The check every analyst should run on an Excel report before it leaves their desk, demonstrated by Leila Gharani. Error discipline is a graded trait in modeling tests, and this is its habit form.
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EasyData and Excel Skills
Leila Gharani · on YouTube
Stop copying data between Excel sheets: the linking and consolidation methods that replace the clipboard. Manual copying is where spreadsheet errors are born, and working interviews can tell.
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