Beginning big data with Power BI and Excel 2013. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Neil Dunlop.
• Other Names: Dunlop, Neil
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Big Data; Big Data As the Fourth Factor of Production; Big Data As Natural Resource; Data As Middle Manager; Early Data Analysis; First Time Line; First Bar Chart and Time Series; Cholera Map; Modern Data Analytics; Google Flu Trends; Google Earth; Tracking Malaria; Big Data Cost Savings; Big Data and Governments; Predictive Policing; A Cost-Saving Success Story; Internet of Things or Industrial Internet; Cutting Energy Costs at MIT. The Big Data Revolution and Health Care The Medicalized Smartphone; Improving Reliability of Industrial Equipment; Big Data and Agriculture; Cheap Storage; Personal Computers and the Cost of Storage; Review of File Sizes; Data Keeps Expanding; Relational Databases; Normalization; Database Software for Personal Computers; The Birth of Big Data and NoSQL; Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS); Big Data; The Three V's; The Data Life Cycle; Apache Hadoop; MapReduce Algorithm; Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS); Commercial Implementations of Hadoop; CAP Theorem; NoSQL. Characteristics of NoSQL DataImplementations of NoSQL; Spark; Microsoft Self-Service BI; Summary; Chapter 2: Excel As Database and Data Aggregator; From Spreadsheet to Database; Interpreting File Extensions; Using Excel As a Database; Importing from Other Formats; Opening Text Files in Excel; Importing Data from XML; Importing XML with Attributes; Importing JSON Format; Using the Data Tab to Import Data; Importing Data from Tables on a Web Site; Data Wrangling and Data Scrubbing; Correcting Capitalization; Splitting Delimited Fields; Splitting Complex, Delimited Fields. Removing Duplicates Input Validation; Working with Data Forms; Selecting Records; Summary; Chapter 3: Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts; Recommended Pivot Tables in Excel 2013; Defining a Pivot Table; Defining Questions; Creating a Pivot Table; Changing the Pivot Table; Creating a Breakdown of Sales by Salesperson for Each Day; Showing Sales by Month; Creating a Pivot Chart; Adjusting Subtotals and Grand Totals; Analyzing Sales by Day of Week; Creating a Pivot Chart of Sales by Day of Week; Using Slicers; Adding a Time Line; Importing Pivot Table Data from the Azure Marketplace.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Apress
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658/.05; Computer science; Big data; Business -- Data processing; Microsoft software; Microsoft .NET Framework; Information systems; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Big data; Business -- Data processing; Computer science; Computers -- Online Services -- General; Computer networking & communications; Computers -- Programming -- Microsoft Programming; Microsoft programming; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484205297; 1484205294
• Related ISBNs: 9781484205303; 1484205308
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