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Gregory Deckler
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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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Transforming data

While Power BI did a good job of automatically identifying and categorizing our data, the data is not entirely in the format required 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 cover using a powerful sub-application known as Power Query Editor.

Touring the Power Query Editor

Similar to how we provided a tour of Power BI Desktop in Chapter 3, Up and Running with Power BI Desktop, this section provides a tour of Power Query Editor. Power Query Editor can be launched from the Home tab by choosing Transform data in the Queries section of the Ribbon. Once launched, the following screen will be displayed:

Figure 4.6 – Power Query Editor

As you might expect, the Power Query Editor interface is similar to, and shares common elements with, Power BI Desktop. The Power Query Editor user interface is comprised of eight main areas. Refer...

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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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