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Learn Power BI

You're reading from   Learn Power BI A beginner's guide to developing interactive business intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644482
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Introduction to Business Intelligence and Power BI FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: The Desktop
4. Up and Running with Power BI Desktop 5. Connecting and Shaping Data 6. Creating Data Models and Calculations 7. Unlocking Insights 8. Creating the Final Report 9. Section 3: The Service
10. Publishing and Sharing 11. Using Reports in the Service 12. Understanding Dashboards, Apps, and Security 13. Data Gateways and Refreshing Datasets 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Transforming data

While Power BI did a good job of automatically identifying and categorizing our data, the data is not entirely in the format we will require for analysis. Therefore, we need to modify how the data gets loaded into the model. In other words, we need to transform the data. To do that, we will use a powerful sub-application: the Power Query Editor.

Touring the Power Query Editor

The Power Query Editor is launched from the Home tab of the ribbon by choosing Edit Queries from the External Data section.

Once launched, the following screen will be displayed:

Figure 6: The Query Editor

As you might expect, the Power Query Editor interface is similar to, and shares common elements with, the Desktop. The Power...

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