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Published inMay 2023
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Greg Beaumont
Greg Beaumont
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Greg Beaumont is a data architect at Microsoft, where he enjoys identifying and solving complex problems backed by his experience in data architecture and a passion for innovation. Focusing on the healthcare industry, Greg works closely with customers to plan enterprise analytics strategies, evaluate new tools and products, conduct training sessions and hackathons, and architect solutions that improve the quality of care and reduce costs. He strives to be a trusted advisor to his customers and is always seeking new ways to drive progress and help organizations thrive. He is a veteran of the Microsoft data speaker network and has worked with hundreds of customers on their data management and analytics strategies.
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Building a curated query to populate a Date table

Date aggregations are an important component of both Power BI and business intelligence tools as a whole. Understanding and recalculating trends at the level of weeks, months, quarters, and years adds robust analytical capabilities. Date tables can even be used to slice and dice data by weekends, holidays, fiscal calendars, and more. Power BI even has the capability to specify a table as a Date table to enable special time intelligence capabilities.

A .csv file of Date data is available at the Packt GitHub site link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Unleashing-Your-Data-with-Power-BI-Machine-Learning-and-OpenAI/tree/main/Chapter-02. Follow these steps to bring it into Power Query:

  1. Copy https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PacktPublishing/Unleashing-Your-Data-with-Power-BI-Machine-Learning-and-OpenAI/main/Chapter-02/date.csv.
  2. In Power Query, select New Source and then Web. Paste in the URL and hit OK.
  3. When the preview...
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Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837636150

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Greg Beaumont

Greg Beaumont is a data architect at Microsoft, where he enjoys identifying and solving complex problems backed by his experience in data architecture and a passion for innovation. Focusing on the healthcare industry, Greg works closely with customers to plan enterprise analytics strategies, evaluate new tools and products, conduct training sessions and hackathons, and architect solutions that improve the quality of care and reduce costs. He strives to be a trusted advisor to his customers and is always seeking new ways to drive progress and help organizations thrive. He is a veteran of the Microsoft data speaker network and has worked with hundreds of customers on their data management and analytics strategies.
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