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Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies
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Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies

by Jack A. Hyman
December 2024
Beginner
464 pages
11h 41m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 10

Working with Data

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Defining the types of data sources Power BI supports

Bullet Exploring how to connect and configure data sources in Power BI

Bullet Working with shared datasets

Bullet Importing and connecting to datasets

Bullet Finding and working with common data sources

Bullet 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 learn the methods you can apply to prep and load data ...

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