Collect, Combine,

and Transform
Data Using
Power Query in
Excel and Power BI
Gil Raviv
gil.raviv@avanade.com
gilra@datachant.com
 About Gil Raviv

• Microsoft MVP
• Director Analytics at Avanade, helps organizations to enable self-service BI
• Power BI Blogger at DataChant.com
• Former PM on Microsoft Excel Product team

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 Avanade at a Glance in Analytics
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 Power Query – The Best Data Acquisition & Preparation Tool

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Power Query Leading the Data Prep Experiences
in Microsoft Stack

Power Query is Available in these Products

Excel 2010 and Excel 2016 Power BI Gateway

Power BI Desktop
2013 Add-In Data ribbon + Service

Azure Analysis
Microsoft Flows Power Apps Dataflows
Services

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 The Challenges
• Power Query Editor is frequently updated
• UI is going through constant incremental changes
• New connectors
• New transformations
• The new data exploration
• Intellisense in Advanced Editor
• How can I write a book that will still be relevant in the
future?
• After a year?
• After 3 years?
• After 5 years?
• My solution
• Don’t focus on features, focus on capabilities
• Hands-on
• Sequences and Principles

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 Chapter 1: Introduction to Power Query
How it started

“Power Query was initially formed in 2011 as part of Microsoft SQL Azure Labs. It was announced at
PASS Summit in October 2011 under the Microsoft codename “Data Explorer.” Figure 1-1 shows its
initial user interface.”

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 Chapter 2: Basic Data Preparation Challenges

0000Messy1111 Cleaned

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 Chapter 3: Combining Data from Multiple Sources

Siloed
Siloed Combined

Siloed
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 Chapter 4: Combining Mismatched Tables

Mismatched

mis_matched Combined
MISMATCHED
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 Chapter 5: Preserve Context

contextless
Context

Combined
contextless +
Context

Preserved
contextless
Context

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 Chapter 6: Unpivoting Tables

Badly Well-
Structured
Structured

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 Chapter 7: Advanced Unpivoting and Pivoting Tables

Badly
Structured
Well-
Structured

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 Chapter 8: Addressing Collaboration Challenges

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 Chapter 9: Introduction to the Power Query M Formula Language

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 Chapter 10: From Pitfalls to Robust Queries

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 Chapter 11: Basic Text Analytics

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 Chapter 12: Advanced Text Analytics: Extracting Meaning

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 Chapter 13: Social Network Analytics

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 Chapter 14: Final Project – Combining It All Together

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 • Q&A
• Bonus Exercises
• Cool Demos

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