A common task when cleaning data is to perform multiple replacements at once. When dealing with “translation tables” you might have come across Chris Webb’s solution using List.Generate to deal with this. (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Excel’
Universal JSON-opener for Quandl in PowerBI and Excel/Power Query
Today I discovered JSON (…confess) and Quandl. Mates – this is powerful! Here comes just a quick function to automatically expand all columns of a time-series at once:
How to display Power Query results with line feed or carriage return
Although you can inject linefeeds (“#(lf)”) and carriage returns (“#(cr)”) in Power Query, lines will not break in the Excel-display. This simple trick makes your lines break nicely in Excel: Click into the formula (…) Read more
How to hack yourself in Power BI (and Power Pivot?)
Reading Gerhard Brueckl’s post on how to visualize SSAS calculation dependencies reminded me of my post about a similar technique from December last year. His solution has features that would do (…) Read more
PowerBI Best Practice: Views for non-database data
Marco Russo has shared bunch of very valuable PowerBI best practice tricks for designing your PowerBI model here: http://www.sqlbi.com/articles/data-import-best-practices-in-power-bi/?platform=hootsuite One of them being never to directly import a database table, but (…) Read more
Select rows that have no empty fields using Expression.Evaluate in Power BI and Power Query
This article describes the use of Expression.Evaluate as a very helpful “swiss-army-knife”-method for your Power BI toolbox as it has many more use cases than the one described below. It (…) Read more