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Miracle: Instant “Report Clean Up” using Power Query
Reports generated from business applications often become inputs to new reports. You end up spending too much time cleaning them up. Here is a new and unimaginably faster way of doing it – using Power...
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Power BI introduction for developers
Recently I conducted a session for BI team of a large customer. This introduces the concept of end user BI to hard core developers. Have a look. It will give you a different perspective. 2 hour video....
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CSV import problems solved with Power Query
In the previous article we saw the problem with importing CSV files. Here is how the new Power Query can be used to clean the data while importing. Estimated reading time 10 min Recap Excel opens...
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Demo Warriors: Power Query and Power BI best practices
This is a series of articles about people like me who deliver demos, conduct workshops and speak at keynotes. I will share what I have learnt about delivering high-impact demos Estimated reading time...
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What did I learn today: Power Query Preview Hyperlink
What a brilliant feature, which was lying right in front of me for months, but I did not notice it. In Power Query Preview dialog, every field name has a hyperlink. NOTICE THAT. Click on a column name...
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Reversing row order in Excel data
Two simple approaches. One is to add an extra column with serial numbers and then sort on that column in descending order. This works for small amount of data. For large data it is best to import it in...
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Power Query now available for standard version of Excel 2013
Power Query is an amazing tool for importing and cleaning up data from various sources. The problem was that it required you to have professional version of Office. Now that problem is solved…...
View ArticleData Analytics Webinar Video
Thank you for the overwhelming response. More than 800 attendees, 70+ questions. Watch the video on YouTube (use 720P) or Download (MP4, 188 mb, 60 min) and view on your PC. A big thank you to the...
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Data Split into Two rows – Cleanup using Power Query
This is the worst type of input data to get. Each row has been split into two (or sometimes more) rows. We want those to be combined into a single row. In an earlier article, I have shown one method of...
View ArticleData Clean Up: Column groups into tabular columns
Often we get data which is distributed in multiple column sets. Here is how you can convert it to good tabular data using Power Query. Watch the video. Sample File download.
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