Power Query for Power BI and Excel

"Power Query for Power BI and Excel is a book for people who are tired of copying and pasting data into Excel worksheets. Power Query, part of the Microsoft Power BI suite, is a tool that automates the process of getting data into Excel and will save you hours of dull, repetitive, and error-prone work! Power Query makes it easy to extract data from many different data sources, filter that data, aggregate it, clean it and perform calculations on it, finally loading that data into either your worksheet or directly into the new Excel 2013 Data Model used by Power Pivot. This concise, practical book provides a complete guide to Power Query and how to use it to solve all of your Excel data-loading problems. Power Query for Power BI and Excel goes well beyond the surface of what Power Query can do. The book goes deep into the underlying M language, showing you how to do amazing things that aren't going to be possible from just the GUI interface that is covered in most other books. You'll have full command of the GUI, and you'll be able to drop into the M language to go beyond what the GUI provides. The depth in this book makes it a must-have item for anyone who is pushing Power BI and Excel to their limits in the pursuit of business intelligence from data analysis. Teaches the basics of using Power Query to load data into Excel Helps you solve common, data-related problems with Power Query Shows how to write your own solutions in the powerful M language "

At a Glance; Chapter 1: Introducing Power Query; Power Query and Power BI; Power BI Components; Power Query; Power Pivot and the Excel 2013 Data Model; Power View; Power Map; SharePoint and Power BI for Office 365; Mobile BI; Workflow Summary; Power Query and Power BI Licensing; Installing Power Query; Power Query Concepts; Power Query Walkthrough; Creating a Simple Query; Editing an Existing Query; Why Use Power Query?; Faster Release Cycles; Connectivity to New Data Sources; Improved Connectivity to Existing Data Sources; Automate Data Loads

Create Transformations and Calculations EasilyDo the Work in the Data Source, Not on the Desktop; Share Queries between Workbooks and Users; Summary; Chapter 2: Power Query Data Sources; Querying Relational Databases; Connecting to SQL Server; Navigating through a Database in the Query Editor; Connecting to Other Databases; Extracting Data from Files; Working with CSV Files; Working with Text Files; Working with XML Files; Working with JSON Files; Working with Excel Files; Working with Folders and Multiple Files; Working with Data from the Windows File System

Combining Data from Multiple Text FilesWorking with Data from the Current Excel W…