Let's discuss about features and options that Power Query provides in it's Home Tab in the ribbon and continue our series in Power BI.
It will be helpful for someone who wants to learn Power BI to land a data analyst role or a data analyst who is working in a company and their company recently migrated to Power BI for dashboard generation and more.
Also, I will mention only those options/features from Home Tab of Power Query that are most commonly used by data analyst. Feel free to try other features as well and mention the options that I may miss or you use as a data analyst from Power Query.
So, Let's discuss them one by one:
-- Choose Columns: It allows you to select only those columns that you want to see in Power BI, it doesn't delete remaining columns, it just hides them.
-- Remove Columns: It allows you to remove columns from the table.
-- Keep Rows: It allows you to keep only those rows that you want.
-- Remove Rows: It allows you to remove rows and has various options such as "Remove Top Rows", "Remove Bottom Rows", "Remove Alternate Rows" and more.
-- Split Columns: It allows you to split columns according to various criteria such as "by delimiter", "by character count", "by position" and more.
-- Group by: It allows you to group the rows in the given table according to the selected column.
-- Use first rows as header: As the name explains, it allows you to use first row of table as header.
-- Replace Values: It allows you to replace values. You simply need to select the value that you want to replace and the new value that you want to replace with.
-- Append Queries: It simply allows you to concatenate rows of multiple tables. It has another option "Append Queries as New" and it creates a new query after concatenation.
-- Merge Queries: It allows you to perform join operation between multiple tables and also has an option of "Merge Queries as New" where new query will be formed after join. I posted a detailed explanation of Merge in Power BI which can be checked.
-- Close and Apply: It allows you to confirm and apply the changes if you want and when you apply, then the updated data is provided to the model. You can also select "Close" if you don't want to feed these changes to the model.
So, These are the various features/options available in Home Tab of Power BI that you will use often as a data analyst.
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