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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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Understanding data completeness

When importing data into Power BI, one of the primary concerns is ensuring data completeness.

Before diving into the technical aspects of importing data, it is essential to understand the context in which data completeness becomes a critical factor. Incomplete data can lead to skewed analyses, erroneous visualizations, and misleading business insights. Therefore, in this section, we will explore the significance of data completeness and how it forms the foundation for accurate and reliable reporting in Power BI.

To assess data completeness in Power BI, we can employ various techniques. For instance, we can use data profiling to identify the percentage of missing values for each column. Power BI’s built-in data profiling capabilities help us visualize the completeness of data across different fields in our dataset.

By analyzing these visualizations, we can pinpoint columns with high percentages of missing values, indicating areas that...

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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.
Read more about Gus Frazer