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Web Scraping 2: Scrape multiple pages at once and refresh in Power BI service

In the first post of this series I’ve explained how to simultaneously load and combine multiple (similar structured) tables from ONE PAGE. This post handles the other direction, how to combine tables (…) Read more

  • 2018-03-22
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Excel, M, Power BI, Power Query

A generic SWITCH-function for the query editor in Power BI and Power Query

Although you can easily replicate the DAX SWITCH-function via list-, table- or record functions in M, I thought it would be convenient for many newbies to have a comfortable M-SWITCH-function that (…) Read more

  • 2018-02-15
  • Comments 22
  • Filed under: Excel, M, Power BI, Power Query

Web Scraping 1: Combine multiple tables from one page in Power BI and Power Query

This is a step-by-step description of how to combine multiple tables from one webpage into one table with categories as output. You can also apply this technique to combine tables from (…) Read more

  • 2018-02-10
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Excel, M, Power BI, Power Query

List.SelectPositions in Power BI and Power Query

With this new custom function “List.SelectPositions” you can easily select items from a list by just passing a list of their positions within it as the parameter. What it does Say (…) Read more

  • 2018-01-24
  • Comments 5
  • Filed under: Excel, M, Power BI, Power Query

Table.Group: Exploring the 5th element in Power BI and Power Query

In this post I’ll show you the magic stuff you can do with the 5th parameter (the optional comparer function) of the Table.Group M-function in Power BI and Power Query: Table.Group parameters (…) Read more

  • 2018-01-21
  • Comments 12
  • Filed under: Excel, M, Power BI, Power Query

Import text from pdf files in Power BI

While Power BI will soon provide functions to import tables from pdf-files, there might be occasions when you actually need to import text from pdf files (in unstructured form). With a little help from R (…) Read more

  • 2018-01-09
  • Comments 19
  • Filed under: M, Power BI, R
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