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Exporting All M Code From Power Query In Excel 2013
Here’s a tip that I found out about on the Power Query Technet forum that I thought was worth repeating. If you ever need a quick way of exporting all the M code for all of the queries in an Excel 2013...
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Loading Twitter Archive Data In Power Query
If you’re a Twitter user (I’m @Technitrain if you aren’t following me already) you may be aware that you can download your entire Twitter history – all of the data from all of your tweets – as a series...
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Referencing Individual Cell Values From Tables In Power Query
[This blog post is relevant to Power Query in Excel 2010/2013, the Get & Transform section on the Data tab in Excel 2016, and the Get Data screen in Power BI Desktop. I’m going to use the term...
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Loading English LiDAR Open Data Into Excel And Power Map Using Power Query
…or, if you want the clickbait title of this post, “Creating cool Minecraft-type landscapes in Power Map”… I’m a big fan of Owen Boswarva’s UK open data blog, and yesterday this post on English LiDAR...
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Avoiding Duplication Of Database Connection Information In Power BI
In a year’s time there will be a great opportunity for someone to present a session on “Power BI Development Best Practices” at the PASS Summit. Before then, we will all have to work out what those...
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Working With Compression In Power Query And Power BI Desktop
If you’re reading this post there’s one important question you’ll probably want to ask: is it possible to extract data from a zip file in Power Query/Power BI? The answer is, unfortunately, no (at...
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Two New Books: “The Definitive Guide To DAX” And “’M’ Is For Data Monkey”
I’m not going to pretend that this blog post is a properly impartial review – I know the authors of both of these books to varying degrees – but I thought it was worth writing a few words on two new...
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The Table.Schema() Function In Power BI/M
Yet another new M function for you this week: the Table.Schema() function, which returns information about the columns in a table. There’s some fairly detailed documentation about what it returns here;...
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Rendering Text On A Map With Power Query And Power Map
They say a good magician never reveals his tricks. Luckily, I’m a rubbish magician and so (at the request of Jason Thomas and David Eldersveld) I can reveal the secret behind one of the magic tricks I...
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Working With CSV Files That Contain Rogue Line Breaks In Power Query And...
CSV files often contain text fields, and text fields often contain line breaks that shouldn’t be there (especially if the text is entered by end users). For example, here is are the contents of a...
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Dynamic Column Selection In Custom Columns In Power BI/Power Query/M
When you’re writing an M expression for a custom column in Power BI or Power Query it’s easy to reference the values in other columns. A slightly more difficult question, however, is how can you...
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Generating Fixed-Width Text Files In Excel With Power Query
While it’s fairly common to need to load fixed-width files using Power Query or Power Query (and there’s a nice walkthrough of how to do this here), occasionally you might want to use Power Query and...
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Loading English LiDAR Open Data Into Excel And Power Map Using Power Query
…or, if you want the clickbait title of this post, “Creating cool Minecraft-type landscapes in Power Map”… I’m a big fan of Owen Boswarva’s UK open data blog, and yesterday this post on English LiDAR...
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Avoiding Duplication Of Database Connection Information In Power BI
In a year’s time there will be a great opportunity for someone to present a session on “Power BI Development Best Practices” at the PASS Summit. Before then, we will all have to work out what those...
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Working With Compression In Power Query And Power BI Desktop
If you’re reading this post there’s one important question you’ll probably want to ask: is it possible to extract data from a zip file in Power Query/Power BI? The answer is, unfortunately, no (at...
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Two New Books: “The Definitive Guide To DAX” And “’M’ Is For Data Monkey”
I’m not going to pretend that this blog post is a properly impartial review – I know the authors of both of these books to varying degrees – but I thought it was worth writing a few words on two new...
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The Table.Schema() Function In Power BI/M
Yet another new M function for you this week: the Table.Schema() function, which returns information about the columns in a table. There’s some fairly detailed documentation about what it returns here;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rendering Text On A Map With Power Query And Power Map
They say a good magician never reveals his tricks. Luckily, I’m a rubbish magician and so (at the request of Jason Thomas and David Eldersveld) I can reveal the secret behind one of the magic tricks I...
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Working With CSV Files That Contain Rogue Line Breaks In Power Query And...
CSV files often contain text fields, and text fields often contain line breaks that shouldn’t be there (especially if the text is entered by end users). For example, here is are the contents of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dynamic Column Selection In Custom Columns In Power BI/Power Query/M
When you’re writing an M expression for a custom column in Power BI or Power Query it’s easy to reference the values in other columns. A slightly more difficult question, however, is how can you...
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