Course description
Excel: Power Query (Online Training)
Learn how to efficiently prepare data for analysis in our Excel Power Query course. This course is suitable for both beginners and experienced users. On this course, you will learn how to effortlessly import, clean, and transform your data from various sources, allowing you to streamline your workflow and enhance your analytical capabilities. You will get the chance to gain practical experience in data manipulation, including merging, appending, and reshaping data.
Some key topics on this course include:
- Introduction to Power Query interface
- Importing data from multiple sources (Excel, CSV, web, and more)
- Data cleansing techniques (removing duplicates, filtering, etc.)
- Transforming data with custom calculations
- Creating reusable queries and automating tasks
- Best practices for data management and organisation
By the end of this course, you’ll have all the skills needed to confidently harness Power Query, saving time and improving the accuracy of your data analysis.
Suitability - Who should attend?
By the end of the course, you will be an expert at cleaning, transforming and reshaping your data so that it is ready to analyse.
Prerequisites
This course is perfect for existing users of Excel who spend a lot of time manually preparing data for analysis. Previous experience of Pivot Tables and Formulas would be needed
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introduction to Power Query
- Power Query User Interface – A Walkthrough
- Importing Data Rules and Best Practice
Data Preparation - Part 1
- Combine or Merge Multiple Files from a Folder
- Importing Data from the Web
- Merge Queries vs. Append Queries
- JOIN Types for Beginners
- Understanding JOIN Concept and its Types
- JOINS in Action – Basic Example
- Quick DOs and DONTs for Merge Queries
- Merging Queries with more than 1 KeyID Column
- Fuzzy Lookup
Data Preparation - Part 2
- Using First Rows as Header
- Cleaning Up Data with Case Change, TRIM, CLEAN
- Working with Data Types
- Removing Duplicates and Blank Rows, Split Column
- Rectify Date Format using Data Type (Locale)
- Adding a Conditional Column
- Merge Columns (Concatenate)
Data Preparation (Re-Structuring) - Part 3
- Unpivot Column
- Group By
- Transpose
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