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Learn Power Query

By : Linda Foulkes, Warren Sparrow
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Learn Power Query

By: Linda Foulkes, Warren Sparrow

Overview of this book

<p>Power Query is a data connection technology that allows you to connect, combine, and refine data from multiple sources to meet your business analysis requirements. With this Power Query book, you’ll be empowered to work with a variety of data sources to create interactive reports and dashboards using Excel and Power BI. </p><p>You’ll start by learning how to access Power Query across different versions of Excel and install the Power BI engine. After you've explored Power Pivot, you’ll see why Excel users find it challenging to clean data in Power Pivot and learn how Power Query can help to tackle the problem. The book will show you how to transform data using the Query Editor and write functions in Power Query. A dedicated section will focus on functions such as IF, Index, and Modulo, and creating parameters to alter query paths in a table. You’ll also work with dashboards, get to grips with multi-dimensional reporting, and create automated reports. As you advance, you'll cover the M formula language in Power Query, delve into the basic M syntax, and write the M query language with the help of examples such as loading all library functions offline in Excel and Power BI. Finally, the book will demonstrate the difference between M and DAX and show how results are produced in M. </p><p>By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to create impressive dashboards and multi-dimensional reports in Power Query and turn data into valuable insights.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Overview of Power Pivot and Power Query
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Section 2: Power Query Data Transformations
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Section 3: Learning M

Sharing a dashboard

There are several different things that we can share. We can share reports, dashboards, and some data, and we can also decide on various levels of sharing. The basic version allows you to share basic information, but the professional version allows more functionality.

If you click on Pro trial, you will get 60 days free and you do not have to give your credit card number and other details. With an upgrade to Pro, there are many more options that you can do. One of the best options in the Pro version is the following option to share your report with multiple people:

Figure 8.43 – The sharing options

Figure 8.43 – The sharing options

If you select the Share button in the top-right corner of the screen, you can share your report with specific people and depending on the options that are selected, they can share your report and allow other people to use your datasets to build additional reports, and you can send an email notification to the people that you are...