MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Self Service ETL with Power Query Welcome to PASS SQLSaturday! Dan Clark BI/Data Analytics Specialist Planet Technologies

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Self-Service BI Growth More agile to changing requirements User have in depth domain knowledge Users more technology savvy Disparate data sources Better tools that are easier to use and performant Great for prototyping

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! BI Users

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Self-service BI Tools

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Challenges with Data Discovery Exploring, finding and connecting to data is somewhat difficult Data often needs to be cleansed and reshaped before being consumed and analyzed Any shaping is often one-off and not repeatable Combining and merging data from multiple sources is not easy

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Power Query Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources Joins across different data sources Ability to create custom views over data that can then be shared

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Power Query An Excel add-in for Excel 2010 and Excel 2013 Part of Power BI Desktop Identify and import external data Discover relevant data by using search Combine and transform multiple data sources Easy to use visual interface Power Query Language M

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Data Sources

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Demo: Connecting to Data Sources Database Files SharePoint CRM Azure

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Shaping Data

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Shaping Data Format columns Transpose rows and columns Pivot/Unpivot columns Split Columns Rename columns Remove rows and columns Split columns Set data types Replace values Remove duplicates Merge and append queries Adding Columns Adding Keys Merging Columns Date and Time Calculations

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Demo: Shaping Data Replacing Data Splitting Columns Merging Queries

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Power Query Formula Language (M) Code behind the GUI Functional Language Has more functionality than exposed by GUI Case Sensitive Can Use Parameters Contains Error Handling Functions

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Demo: Advanced Data Shaping Using M Creating Functions

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Power BI Desktop

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Power BI Desktop Combines and extends features of – Power Query for getting data – Power Pivot for data modeling, calculations, and measures – Power View for creating data visuals Publish to Power BI Portal – Sharing and collaboration – Creating dashboards and reports

MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT Brought to you by your local PASS Community! Demo Power BI Desktop Getting Data Refining a Model Creating data visuals Publishing to a BI Portal

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