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Data Cleaning with Power BI
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Data Cleaning with Power BI

by Gus Frazer
February 2024
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
8h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data Cleaning Fundamentals and Principles

In this chapter, we will delve into the fundamental concepts and key principles that form the backbone of effective data cleaning practices, with the aim of sharing essential knowledge and processes to confidently tackle the challenges of dirty data and transform it into reliable, accurate, and actionable information.

As the previous chapter introduced, poor data quality can lead to people like yourself needing to clean data ready for it to be analyzed. Data cleaning is an indispensable step in the data preparation process, ensuring that the data we work with is trustworthy, consistent, and fit for analysis. It involves identifying and rectifying errors, inconsistencies, duplicates, missing values, ...

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