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Data Mashup with Microsoft Excel Using Power Query and M: Finding, Transforming, and Loading Data from External Sources
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Data Mashup with Microsoft Excel Using Power Query and M: Finding, Transforming, and Loading Data from External Sources

by Adam Aspin
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 4m
English
Apress
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© Adam Aspin 2020
A. AspinData Mashup with Microsoft Excel Using Power Query and Mhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6018-0_9

9. Complex Data Loads

Adam Aspin1 
(1)
Stafford, UK
 

Not all data loads are a matter of simply establishing a connection and applying transformations to the source data that is, fortunately, already laid out in neatly structured tables. Sometimes you may want to “push the envelope” when loading data and prepare more complex source data structures for use in your Excel analytics. By this, I mean that the source data is not initially in a ready-to-use tabular format and that some restructuring of the data is required to prepare a clean table of data for use.

To solve these kinds of challenges, this chapter will explain to you how ...
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