edX - DAT206x - Module 3 - Lecture Notes

- Importing Data from a CSV File

- Power Query
- 2013 Add-in
- 2016 Built-in
- In future versions it will be the default method to import data (including
CSV)
- Importing
- Data -> Get and Transform -> New Query
- Query Editor:
- Enhance, Edit, Save, and later Load and reuse for another import
- Right-click to remove unneeded columns
- (Optional) Flash Fill
- For data copy/pasted from text/PDF sources and recovering columns,
structure