Best Practices for Collecting and Analyzing Data with Power Query and Excel
Speaker(s):
Chris Webb
Duration: 60 minutes
Track: Discover & Integrate
So you’ve played around with Power Query in Excel; now it’s time to put it to work. In this session you’ll learn how to ‘think’ in Power Query. You’ll see a number of examples of how Power Query can be used to solve real world problems and understand the best practices and patterns that you can take back to work and use immediately. Examples will include:
• Creating and using a parameter table
• Combining data from multiple Excel workbooks into a single data set
• Handling errors and unavailable data sources
• Calling web services, handling authentication and working with XML
• Performing sentiment analysis in Excel with Power Query and Azure Machine Learning