Ken had a blast in June going down to Atlanta for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS). There, he and co-author Miguel Escobar led an in-person workshop together for the first time. Ken also presented a breakout session on best
Sometimes, what should be easy code to write has unexpected pitfalls resulting in opportunities for new learning. I needed to generate a one or two-tiered stream of date values with multi-frequency period cycles, monthly vs annual. For example, after installing
Did you know Power Query can be used as a task tracking tool? This might sound quite unusual but the method described here has been used for solving a real business case. The example I will use is rather simplified
We all know how good Power Query is for cleaning, shaping and analyzing numerical data. But this powerful tool opens doors for analysts that had been closed for long time, such as for analyzing text. In this article, I will
There are two kinds of nuthin' in Power Query: null, and blank. I tripped on this issue the other day, and Ken thought it would be a good idea for a blog post. Let's just call out the two types of
As you may have heard, we have been working on a set of helpful Power Query Recipes for Excel and Power BI and are excited to announce that they are now officially available! Are our Power Query Recipes for you?
When Ken was at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit a few weeks ago, he met Mr. J.A. Garcia who has been doing some amazing work with Power Query. We wanted to share his story about how he has been using
Miguel and I were at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit last week, and we were frequently asked for an update on the Master Your Data book (aka M is for (Data) Monkey version 2.0). We were told that it’s time.
It's been a long time coming, but we are putting the finishing touches on the third installment of our free 'DIY BI' series. Consequently, we are excited to announce that the Power Pivot eBook will be officially released on Tuesday,
Slobodan emailed me to describe a trick to protect Excel tables that he is using to drive data validation lists. The data validation lists are sourced from tables loaded via Power Query, and leverage a little hack to hide them
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