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Luca Zavarella
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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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Anonymizing data in Power BI

One of the possible scenarios that could happen to you during your career as a report developer in Power BI is the following. Imagine that you are given an Excel dataset to import into Power BI to create a report for another department in your company. The Excel data set contains sensitive personal information, such as the names and email addresses of people who have made multiple attempts to pay for an order with a credit card. The following is an example of the contents of the Excel file:

Figure 7.4 – Excel data to be anonymized

You are asked to create the report while anonymizing the sensitive data.The first thing you will notice is that, not only do you need to anonymize the Name and Email columns, but some names or email addresses can be contained in the text of some Notes. While it is quite easy to find email addresses using regular expressions, it is not so easy to find names in free text. For this purpose, it is necessary...

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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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