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Tools for business analysis - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel for Business Analysts
Tools for business analysis
- [Instructor] Outside of Excel, there's a few key tools that I personally think are very useful for people doing work in business analytics. To begin with, Microsoft's Power BI is one of those tools where when you're ready to kind of graduate beyond Excel and do stuff that's a little bit more complicated, it can be a great option to explore. One of the nice things about Power BI is because it's from Microsoft and they have this relationship with a generative AI company, OpenAI, they've now integrated generative AI tools into Power BI. We're going to talk about this more later in the course, but it's just something to be aware of. Power BI is a great tool to let you go through and build more powerful data models and more useful visualizations of those data. Now, speaking of visualizations, one of the best software programs I've found for making more complex visualizations than you can do in Excel, is Tableau. In particular, with geographic data, or if you're looking to have kind of…
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