Microsoft Power Query 101 Belinda Allen Smith & Allen Consulting, Inc.

Agenda What is Microsoft Power Query? Demos Get the Data Prepare the Data Use the Data Power BI Q&A

What is Microsoft Power Query? Self Service BI Tool for Excel 2013 (& Excel 2010?) Features Easily discover, combine, and refine data for better analysis in Excel. Import data from external data sources Shape data from multiple data sources Filter, sort, and group data Search public data (currently United States only)

What is Microsoft Power Query? Enrichment for the desktop to the cloud (Excel to Power BI) (additional Fee) Share queries Manage shared queries Find and use a shared query View Usage Analytics for Your Shared Queries

With Power Query, you can Find and connect data across a wide variety of sources. Merge and shape data sources to match your data analysis requirements or prepare it for further analysis and modeling by tools such as Power Pivot and Power View. Create custom views over data. Use the JSON parser to create data visualizations over Big Data and Azure HDInsight. Perform data cleansing operations. Import data from multiple log files. Perform Online Search for data from a large collection of public data sources including Wikipedia tables, a subset of Microsoft Azure Marketplace, and a subset of Data.gov. Create a query from your Facebook likes that render an Excel chart. Pull data into Power Pivot from new data sources, such as XML, Facebook, and File Folders as refreshable connections. With Power Query 2.10, you can share and manage queries as well as search data within your organization. microsoft-power-query-for-excel- HA aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA

Get the Data

Power Query Data Sources Web page Excel or CSV file XML file Text file Folder SQL Server database Microsoft Azure SQL Database Access database Oracle database IBM DB2 database MySQL database PostgreSQL Database Sybase Database Teradata Database SharePoint List OData feed Microsoft Azure Marketplace Hadoop File (HDFS) Microsoft Azure HDInsight Microsoft Azure Table Storage Active Directory Microsoft Exchange Facebook en-us/excel- help/introduction-to- microsoft-power-query-for- excel- HA aspx?CTT=5& origin=HA

Demo - Power Query Data Sources

Prepare the Data

Demo - Power Query Data Sources & Edits

Use the Data

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Free Trial Try or Buy

Special Pricing Until 12/31/14 O365 E3/E4 Office 365 ProPlus or Office 2013 ProPlus If you already have: Otherwise : Standalone Power BI + Office 365 ProPlus

Power BI Share Queries Usage Analytics

Q&A Belinda Allen Smith & Allen Consulting, Inc. Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCP