This workshop on Excel was conducted on April 5th, 2016 by Harshini Mohan, a Fall 2015 MSBAPM Student.
This workshop gave a good insight on some of the unique features of Excel like the Power View, Power Pivots and Power Maps.
Harshini Mohan distributed a data set to all the attendees of the workshop and asked them to play with the data to bring out their own visualizations. Then she explained the usefulness of the Power View feature of Excel to explore, visualize and present data. Along with the Power View, she also highlighted the importance of the Power Pivot Excel add-in which is used to perform powerful data analysis and create sophisticated data models.
The most exciting topic of this workshop was the 3D data visualization tool in Excel called the Power Map. Visualizing geographical and temporal data, analyzing data in 3D was demonstrated using this tool.
On the whole the workshop was a huge success making the attendees want to explore more about the unique features in Excel.