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Basic Excel Business Analytics #33: Power Query: Transform Many Bad Data Files into Proper Data Set
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Excel Business Analytics Free Course - Forecasting, Linear Programming, Simulation & more. - Basic Excel Business Analytics #33: Power Query: Transform Many Bad Data Files into Proper Data Set

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Download files: https://people.highline.edu/mgirvin/AllClasses/348/348/AllFilesBI348Analytics.htm Learn about how to use Power Query to Import Multiple Excel Files with “Bad Data” (Data that is not in a Proper Data Set) into a single Proper Data Set and Create an amazing PivotTable that shows percentage Employee Response by Department To Company Survey: 1) (00:04) Download File Information 2) (00:27) Look at the multiple Excel files that contain Employee Survey Data that are not contained in a proper data set (Bad Data). 3) (01:50) Import many files with poorly set up data: Power Query Get External Data group, From File, From Folder 4) (02:54) Add Column with Excel.Workbook Power Query Function to get the data from the Excel files. 5) (03:43) Get Sheet Names from each sheet for a new column 6) (04:08) Filter feature in Power Query: Clean “Bad Data”. We filter out the survey question, empty cells (null), Filed names (Employee/Answer), and Count summary row. 7) (05:30) Unpivot Columns feature: Gather all the “Yes” Answers and “No” Answers into a single column 8) (05:50) Rename columns 9) (06:20) Close and Load to Table on sheet 10) (06:41) PivotTable for company overall survey results as a % of Column Total. 11) (07:59) Original Survey Question 12) (08:43) PivotTable to break out survey results by Department. See the Show Values as: % of Column Parent Total. 13) (09:36) Drop new files into folder and see that the entire set of reports, including the Power Query that cleaned and transformed the data, all update perfectly!!! 14) (10:35) Summary and Conclusion Download Excel File Not: After clicking on link, Use Ctrl + F (Find) and search for “Highline BI 348 Class” or for the file name as seen at the beginning of the video.

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