Learn the core features of Power Query to simplify data preparation in Excel and Power BI. Through hands-on instruction, you’ll practice cleaning, transforming, and combining data.
Overview
Syllabus
Getting Started with Power Query
- The Data Analysis Process
- What Is Power Query?
- The Power Query Interface
- Power Query Options & Settings
- One – Extracting
- Two – Transforming
- Three – Loading
- Four – Refreshing
- Benefits of Power Query
Transpose, Pivot, and Un-Pivot
- Transformations Overview
- Introduction to Transforming Data
- Removing Rows by Filtering Data
- Removing, Renaming & Reordering Columns
- Loading Your Transformations
- Applied Steps
- Saving Transformations
- Data Type Transformations
Combining Data from Two or More Data Sets
- Relationships
- Appending Two Tables
- Appending Multiple Tables
- Query Organization
- Appending Multiple CSVs
- Appending Data with Different Column Headers
- Merging Tables
- Merging via Composite Columns
- Inner Joins
- Right & Left Anti Joins
- Appending Multiple Worksheets
Duplicating and Parameters
- Duplicate & Reference Queries
- Remove Duplicates
- Deleting Queries
- Replacing Errors & Values
- Removing Top/Bottom Rows
- Using First Row as Headers
- Removing Blank Rows
Steps, Groups and Dependencies
- Transformation Steps Level 1
- Splitting Columns
- Merging Columns
- Trim, Clean, and Changing Case
- Transformation Steps Level 2
- Filling Down
- Sorting
- Extracting
- Math Calculations
- Unpivot
- Pivot
- Transpose
- Split Columns into Rows
- Group By
- Grouping by Dates/Times
- Date/Duration Calculations
- Conditional Columns
- Columns from Examples
- Extracting from Data Sources
- Getting Data from Excel
- Getting Data from CSV
- Getting Data from PDF
- Getting Data from Websites
Taught by
Brian McClain, Mourad Kattan, Adebayo Norman, and Garfield Stinvil