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5. Loading Data from the Web and the Cloud

Adam Aspin¹ 

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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK

 

In this chapter we will take a look at a subset of the fast-growing and wide-ranging set of data sources available over the Internet that you can use as a source of analytical data for Power BI Desktop. While the data sources that you will see in the following pages may be extremely diverse, they all have one thing in common: they are stored outside the enterprise and are available using an Internet connection.

The data sources that are available are available from a multitude of suppliers. Looking at all the available sources would take up an entire book, so I will ...