Using the Power Query Editor is similar to using the VBA Macro Recorder. It writes inefficient code and you don’t have the full power of the programming language. This book will teach you how to write Power Query from scratch. Unlock powerful features such as looping and more.
This book is about Power Query and M Code. Power Query and the functional language M Code (M) are the heart and soul of Microsoft’ s power data analysis tools: Excel, Power BI Desktop and Dataflows. The beautiful data driven and insightful PivotTables, Power BI solutions and Dashboards that you create usually require that you use Power Query and M Code to get, transform and load the data before you create the final reports and visuals. For many data analysis jobs, using the SQL language to perform ETL (extract, transform and load) is the preferred tool. Maybe even R or Python. But if you use Power BI or Excel, you better also be masterful with M Code and Power Query. Together, they give you the power to connect to multiple data sources, structuring your data with ease, and load to the worksheet, the data model in Excel or Power BI or Dataflow’ s Data Hub. As an accountant, professor, data analyst, author, Excel MVP and YouTuber for about 20 years, my specialty is in telling stories with videos and books to make complicated things less complicated and to inspire you to have fun with the power you can gain over data.
Excel Worksheet, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI. Calculations, Analytics, Modeling, Data Analysis and Dashboard Reporting for the New Era of Dynamic Data Driven Decision Making & Insight!
This book provides a quick Straight-to-the-Point introduction to Power Query. There’s a lot here, and there’s also a lot that’s not here. Reading this book will be like sitting down at a café and striking up a conversation with the person at the next table, where you learn enough random stuff about that person to decide if you want to know more and keep in touch.
Despite the moniker "data monkey," we information workers are often more like data magicians. Our data seldom enters our world in a ready-to-consume format; it can take hours of cleaning, filtering, and reshaping to get things ready to go. Power Query will make this process faster the first time and reduce it to a single button click every subsequent time.
