CIS 125S Chapter 7
PowerPivot
An Excel BI tool that allows you to analyze data from multiple sources, work with multiple data tables, and create relationships between tables.
Power View
An Excel BI tool that allows you to create and interact with multiple charts, slicers and other data visualizations in a single sheet.
Source data
Data in a worksheet or from an external source, arranged in rows and columns suitable for a PivotTable.
Field section
The upper portion of the PivotTable Fields pane containing the fields—column titles—from your source data; use this area to add fields to and remove fields from the PivotTable.
PivotChart report
A graphical representation of the data in a PivotTable.
Data Model
A method of incorporating data from multiple, related tables into an Excel worksheet.
PivotTable
An interactive, Excel report that summarizes and analyzes large amounts of data.
refresh
The command to update a worksheet to reflect new data.
Filter
A process by which you can limit the display of data to only specific information.
Quick Explore
A tool that allows you to drill down through PivotTable data with a single click.
PivotTable Fields Pane
A window that lists the fields from the source data and an area in which you can arrange the fields in the PivotTable.
column titles
PivotTable field names are formed from the source data's
filter data
Slicers are used to
Business Intelligence tools
Tools that can be used to perform data analysis and create sophisticated charts and reports.
Layout section
The lower portion of the PivotTable Field List where you build the PivotTable report by rearranging and repositioning fields.
Canvas
Area of a Power View worksheet that contains data visualizations.
Field buttons
Buttons on a PivotChart with an arrow to choose a filter, and thus change the data that is displayed in the chart are:
Slicer
Easy-to-use filtering controls with buttons that enable you to drill down through large amounts of data in an interactive way.
list
The data for a PivotTable should be in the format of a:
Field names
The column titles from source data that form categories of data for a PivotTable.
VALUES area
The area in the layout section of the PivotTable Field List where data is summarized is the
FILTER area
The area in the layout section of the PivotTable Field List where you position fields by which you want to filter the PivotTable report, thus enabling you to display a subset of data in the PivotTable report is the
