Data Preparation in Power BI with the M Language
Elevate your data preparation skills in Power BI by mastering the M Language. Discover its purpose, structure, and applications to efficiently perform essential data transformation and cleaning tasks empowering you to build robust data pipelines.
What you'll learn
Data preparation is often the most time-consuming and challenging aspect of the analytics process, leaving many professionals feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. In this course, Data Preparation in Power BI with the M Language, you’ll gain the ability to effectively prepare your data for insightful analysis. First, you’ll explore the purpose and structure of the M Language, providing a solid foundation for your data preparation journey. Next, you’ll discover how to access the Power Query advanced editor to harness the full potential of M language for your data tasks. Finally, you’ll learn how to perform common data transformation tasks, such as removing rows and columns, pivoting and unpivoting data along with the essential data cleaning techniques, such as trimming spaces, removing null values, and many more. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the M Language needed to build robust data pipelines and streamline your data preparation process.
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About the author
Avdhesh Gaur is a Senior Data Scientist, an instructor, an author, a storyteller and consultant as well when it comes to bringing insights out of data and presenting the story behind. His career spans more than 10 years with a focus on taking down various business requirements by building Data-driven BI models using Tableau, SQL, Hive, and numerous Statistical data analysis Techniques. Avdhesh Gaur got one of his submissions to Tableau accepted on 7th January 2019. On average, only 1 out of ev... more