CHAPTER 21

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Data Model Capabilities of Excel 2013

In this chapter, I’ll talk about one of the most power capabilities introduced in Excel: the data model.

Let me ask you this: what is the biggest pain faced by dashboard developers? No, it’s not running out of caffeine because the office espresso machine broke. Indeed, among other things, this book assumes you have ample access to caffeine. What, then, is the biggest pain? The answer doesn’t have to do with the nature of your data (although unclean and unkempt data is a pain in its own right). Even with caffeine and good data, another problem arises. That data is all over the place: in different ...

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