1. 07 | Analyzing Big Data with Excel
Graeme Malcolm | Data Technology Specialist, Content Master
Pete Harris | Learning Product Planner, Microsoft

2. Module Overview Microsoft Excel as a Data Analysis Tool
The Hive ODBC Driver
Importing Data from HDFS with Power Query
Transferring Data to a Database with Sqoop

3. Why Excel? World’s most popular data analysis tool
Built-in data modelling support and PowerPivot
Supports a HUGE range of data sources for mash-up analysis
Great data visualization tools
Data bars and conditional formatting
Charts
PivotTables and PivotCharts
Slicers and timelines
Power View and Power Map
Enterprise and cloud sharing capabilities with Power BI

4. Excel Data Models All Excel workbooks support a tabular data model
PowerPivot enables complex self-service data modeling
PowerPivot workbooks can be shared:
SharePoint Server
Office 365 Power BI

5. Power View Interactive data visualization
Charts update dynamically as data is added or filters applied

6. Power Map Animated Tours of geographic data
Show data changes over time

7. Importing Data from HDInsight
Database
HDFS
Hive
Power Query
OLE DB / Power Query
Excel
ODBC
Query Hive tables using ODBC
Import data from HDFS with Power Query
Export data from HDInsight to a relational database

8. Hive ODBC Driver
Download and install the Hive ODBC Driver for HDInsight
Create a data source name (DSN) for your HDInsight cluster
Use the Data Connection Wizard in Excel to import data

9. Demo: Hive ODBC In this demonstration, you will see how to:
Create an ODBC DSN for Hive
Import a Hive table into a PowerPivot Data Model
Visualize Data from Hive with Power View

10. What is Power Query? An Excel add-in that enables users to:
Find and import data from external sources
Search public data
Combine and shape data from multiple sources
Filter, sort, and group data
Add data to a workbook data model
Save queries in a workbook for reuse
Share queries with other Power BI users*
* Requires a Microsoft Office 365 Power BI account

11. Using Power Query with HDInsight
Windows Azure HDInsight source
Browses Windows Azure Storage
Cluster does not need to be active
Typically used to access output files from Map/Reduce processing
Further filtering and shaping can be performed in Power Query

12. Demo: Power Query In this demonstration, you will see how to:
Import Data from HDInsight with Power Query
Visualize Data from HDInsight with Power Map

13. What is Sqoop? Database integration service in Windows Azure HDInsight
Open Source Hadoop technology
Uses JDBC to connect to databases
Initiate Sqoop jobs from:
Hadoop command line
PowerShell
.NET SDK for Hadoop
Actions in Oozie workflows

14. Demo: Exporting Data with Sqoop
In this demonstration, you will see how to:
Provision Windows Azure SQL Database
Export Data with Sqoop
Import Data from SQL Database into Excel

15. Module Summary
Excel is a comprehensive tool for self-service data analysis
Import data from Hive using the ODBC driver
Import data from HDFS using Power Query
Use Sqoop to transfer data from HDFS to a relational database