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Published inFeb 2024
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Gus Frazer
Gus Frazer
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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
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Turning data profiles into high-quality data

Along with the capability to provide insights on what this data represents, Power BI has now also made it easier to act on the insights provided. These features aim to help cleanse and transform the data faster so you can gain insights quicker. We’ll review them in the next sections.

Recommended actions on column distribution

Figure 8.5 shows an example where Power BI has suggested one action we might take on this column is to remove duplicates. This can be seen by hovering over the distribution of the column.

Figure 8.5 – Recommended action on the column named SalesOrderLineNumber

Figure 8.5 – Recommended action on the column named SalesOrderLineNumber

You can leverage the quick actions shown in the previous screenshot to clean and prepare the data you are analyzing more efficiently. Keep in mind that it might not always be the correct action to take; it depends on your analysis. For example, if you needed to see how many repeat orders there were within a sales...

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Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805126409

Author (1)

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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
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