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R. WadeAdvanced Analytics in Power BI with R and Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5829-3_3

3. Reading CSV Files

Ryan Wade1 
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Indianapolis, IN, USA
 

Power BI is an excellent tool for data visualization and has been recognized as one of the premier tools in that category. However, before you are able to create the great visualizations that Power BI is known for, you first need to get data into the Power BI data model.

Power BI comes with a tool named Power Query that enables you to handle most situations you will encounter while bringing data into the Power BI data model. Power Query’s graphical user interface is intuitive and easy to use, but there are advanced situations where Power Query will fall short.

Fortunately, with ...

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