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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

Introduction to Power BI

Power BI offers a cloud platform (Software as a Service – SaaS) experience that empowers businesses to service themselves with all their intelligence needs. The huge benefit of this is being able to handle millions of rows of data with ease – you can model and analyze data by defining relationships. Its most wonderful feature is that it allows you to define a formula once and then manipulate data using the same formula!

Power BI consists of Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power View and allows you to present large, complex data in meaningful and interesting ways by creating reports and dashboards. It is available in the cloud, which is where users upload and share with other users, allowing natural language queries to be performed on data models. Its standalone version is free of charge and is named Power BI for Desktop Applications. It includes all three apps (Power Query, Power View, and Power Pivot). Power View allows you to create interactive...