Author: Ken Puls

Monkey Tools

Monkey Tools Add-in Monkey Tools is an Excel add-in containing a set of tools to help you build better data models more quickly and using data modelling best practices. They also help you audit what has been done in your

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Unfill in Power Query

Recently I received a question on how to Unfill in Power Query.  In other words, we want the opposite of the Fill feature, which fills data into blank cells (cells that contain a null value.)  If we see repeating values,

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The Data Insights 2 Day Master Class

I’m super excited to be presenting a Data Insights 2 Day Master Class in Wellington, NZ with my good friend Matt Allington.  This is the first time we’ll be working together to bring our unique strengths to our participants in

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Remove Dynamic Number of Top Rows

Removing the top five rows from a data set is easy in Power Query, but what do you do when the number of rows changes?  There isn’t a built-in Remove Dynamic Number of Top Rows function.  In this post we’ll

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How do You Design Your Data Model?

On this blog, I showcase a lot of different techniques for manipulating and reshaping data.  For anyone that follows the blog, you already know this, and you know it's a pretty important topic to me.  But the thing we shouldn't

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Power Query Challenge 6

Are you ready for Power Query Challenge 6?  In this challenge we'll look at splitting nested data sets into a nice table in First Normal Form. Let's take a look at Power Query Challenge 6: Where did the challenge come

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