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An introduction to Microsoft Power BI, emphasisng on the usability of Power Query and how it's useful for the excel population. A session delived at Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd.
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MICROSOFT POWER BI - POWER QUERY16th April, 2014
Jerric Lyns John
Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd.
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THE PEOPLE WHO ANALYZE THEM ARE …
Mostly Scientists …
So what if I wanted to analyze some data?
from my company data bank
What will you do ?
Prototyping “analysis on data” is harder than prototyping an electronic device
Introducing Microsoft Power BI, do your prototyping!
CAVEAT: ITS NOT JUST A PROTOTYPING PLATFORM
Analyzing data with Excel
Visualize this on your Excel!
GETTING STARTEDInstallation
Getting to know the Query tools
What is M?
….
DOWNLOAD THE ADD-IN
ENABLE THE ADD-IN
KNOW THE RIBBON
Online Search : Your personal excel based search engine that can fetch you some useful datasets
DEMO TIMESimple search
• NBA Finals
• NBA Playoffs
From Web : Search for data from a given website
DEMO TIME FIFA World Cup Live Datahttp://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html
From File : Import files of any file format, the “From Folder” can be used to get information from multiple files
From Database : Its always better to load them to data model
From Other Sources : Azure, HDInsight and Facebook are the most interesting ones
DEMO TIME FB info of a Jane Doe
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc --HOSTS file
Provide the IP address and host name of the server
Sign In : This can be used to sync your queries to the cloud so that it can be used by others
Send a feedback : Whenever it fails, do send a frown!
This work by Jerric Lyns John is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.