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Data Cleaning with Power BI
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In Chapter 5, Importing Data into Power BI, you were introduced to some key topics when it comes to importing data, such as dimension modeling, star schemas, and normalization/denormalization. This chapter will build upon this with further knowledge of the basics, introducing concepts such as bidirectional cross-filtering, cardinality, and other best practices.
Here is a summary of some of the basics to consider in this space. To highlight them, this section provides high-level descriptions along with some high-level examples.
In Power BI, we have two main methods of bringing data into our model: importing data and using DirectQuery. Let’s have a brief overview of each to help get you up to speed on the difference between them.
Importing refers to the method of loading and storing data within a Power BI file itself. When you import data, Power BI brings a copy of the data into its...