Power Query for Excel

Overview

With Power Query, you can:

• Find and connect data across a wide variety of sources.

• Merge and shape data sources to match your data analysis requirements or prepare it for further analysis and modeling by tools such as Power Pivot and Power View.

• Create custom views over data.

• Use the JSON parser to create data visualizations over Big Data and Azure HD Insight.

• Perform data cleansing operations.

• Import data from multiple log files.

• Pull data into Power Pivot from new data sources, such as XML, and File Folders as refreshable connections.

• With Power Query 2.10 and later, you can share and manage queries as well as search data within your organization

Samples for using Power Query in humanitarian context

• 3W data consolidation and processing (Example).

• Process Cash data (Example).

• Kobo data consolidation and processing (Example).

• Connect, import and visualize in Power BI, FTS data (Example).

• Import and process The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) data (Example).

Guidance

A step by step manual on how to use Power Query in excel and apply it in humanitarian context can be downloaded here.

Useful tools shared from the field

The following has been contributed by Christian Cricboom:

1. Power Query - Calendar Function

2. Power Query - Combine Rows

3. Power Query - Get Previous Row Value

4. Power Query - Merge All Columns But First One

5. Power Query - Running Total

6. Power Query - How to import data exposed in multiple pages in a website

7. Power Query - Remove Punctuation from text

8. Power Query - Ranking Partition

9. Power Query - How to extract data from a .zip file

Tutorials

• Power Query for Information Managers (slides) 

• Power Query for Information Managers (Webinar 2019)