Chapter 3
Prepping Data for Visualization
IN THIS CHAPTER
Defining the types of data sources Power BI supports
Exploring how to connect and configure data sources in Power BI
Working with shared datasets
Importing and connecting to datasets
Finding and working with common data sources
Identifying cleansing needs based on anomalies, properties, and data quality issues
Enterprise software vendors such as Microsoft have built data source connectors to help organizations import data into applications such as Power BI. You quickly realize that connecting to data sources isn’t necessarily the tricky part — it's often the data transformation that takes a bit of time. After you figure out which method is best to prep and load the data into Power BI, you're well on your way to analyzing and visualizing the data in your universe.
In this chapter, you discover the methods you can apply to prep ...
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