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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference
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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

by Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
794 pages
19h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Unpivot

The Unpivot transform is an incredibly powerful transform that allows you to reorganize your dataset into a more structured format for Business Intelligence. Let's discuss this by visualizing a practical example to help understand the purpose of Unpivot. Imagine you are provided a file that has the last three years of population by US States, and looks like this:

The problem with data stored like this is you cannot very easily answer simple questions. For example, how would you answer questions like, What was the total population for all states in the US in 2018 or What was the average state population in 2016? With the data stored ...

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