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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

Chapter 6: Advanced Power Queries and Functions

This chapter concentrates on the more advanced queries and functions in Power Query such as the IF, Index, and Modulo functions. With these, you will be able to transform a range in Excel with no formatting into a highly customized table with only the relevant information that you require for your query.

You will learn to create parameters to alter query paths and append multiple files and sheet tabs. When using this, it will allow you to easily change the query paths without leaving Excel, which will then change the data source paths so every month you can add in your new data in a monthly folder and run the query instantaneously.  

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Writing an IF function in Power Query
  • Creating a parameter table for queries
  • Creating Index and Modulo functions
  • Appending multiple files
  • Appending multiple tabs