CHAPTER 33Working Directly with the Internal Data Model
Every workbook comes with an internal data model that starts as an empty container. As you work with Power Pivot, the internal data model gets populated with the tables and connections you add to it.
Up until now, you used the Power Pivot Ribbon interface to work with the internal data model. As you will discover in this chapter, however, you can use a combination of PivotTables and Excel data connections to interact directly with the internal data model—without the Power Pivot Ribbon interface.
Directly Feeding the Internal Data Model
Imagine that you have the Transactions table shown in Figure 33.1. On another worksheet, you have an Employees table (see Figure 33.2) that contains information about the employees.
You need to create an analysis that shows sales by job title. This would normally be difficult given the fact that sales and job title are in two separate tables. But with the internal data model, it's just a matter of a few clicks.
FIGURE 33.1 This table shows transactions by employee number. ...