Tag: excel

Building a Box and Whisker Plot in Excel

Introduction I’m a big fan of building Box and Whisker plots (also known as Box plots to those in the statistics world) to interpret certain data sets. While I tend to use these for charting Power Query refresh times, they

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Get Album and Track Data from Spotify

After writing up my article on connecting to Spotify using Power Query, I thought it would be helpful to provide some functions that will allow you to get album and track data from Spotify. A sample project to illustrate getting

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Connect to Spotify using Power Query

Spotify has a massive music database, and in this article we're going to look at how to connect to Spotify using Power Query. Step 1: Get API credentials from Spotify The first thing you'll need to do is to collect

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Label Duplicates with Power Query

Recently, a reader commented on a blog post that I wrote back in 2015.  Their question essentially boiled down to working out how to label duplicates with Power Query.  As an additional twist though, they also wanted to ensure that

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Master Your Data is Now Available!

You read that correctly, the Data Monkey has landed, and Master Your Data for Excel and Power BI is now available in PDF format from your favourite online bookstore! You may have noticed that the past few months have been

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Building a SelectQuery Function

For a while now, I have been wanting to have the capability in Power Query to select a query by name PROGRAMMATICALLY.  Why?  Building a SelectQuery Function would allow me to execute one of multiple “Transform” queries depending on a

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Major redesign at Skillwave.Training

This past weekend we published a major redesign at Skillwave.Training.  Months in the making, this has been a total overhaul to focus on delivering the best online learning experience for our clients.  Check out some of the images from the

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