Go see Mark Tabladillo’s YouTube home page: http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkTabNet# or his web site at: http://www.marktab.net/ (which also has a download of the workbooks he is using in his demo.

And the [...]]]> I just had a chance to view some very cool demos on the topic of using PowerPivot and data mining together to solve some interesting business problems.

Go see Mark Tabladillo’s YouTube home page: http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkTabNet# or his web site at: http://www.marktab.net/ (which also has a download of the workbooks he is using in his demo.

And the three demos are here:

1. http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkTabNet#p/a/u/0/oy7RCLJRuGg (Categorization)
2. http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkTabNet#p/a/u/1/7oNr71Qrox4 (Promotion analysis)
3. http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkTabNet#p/a/u/2/MgXzU_WSVUo (Marriage scoring)

(Just one geek’ie comment – you will notice that he is using the 32-bit PowerPivot add-in and Excel 32-bit. This is because the data mining add-in is only available in 32-bit so you will hit various memory limits sooner than you would with 64-bit. Forewarned is forearmed.)

And while we are on the subject, here are two interesting blog postings from Kasper de Jonge:
http://www.powerpivotblog.nl/convert-a-excel-pivot-table-to-a-excel-table-use-ssas-data-to-do-data-mining-in-excel
http://www.powerpivotblog.nl/screencast-using-datamining-with-powerpivot-in-excel

Enjoy!