Learn Power Query & Automate Boring Data Tasks in 15 Minutes!

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

Agree with you Chandoo. As data is growing and becoming complex, it will carry some legacy issues and new ones too, so ability to curate and clean it, is going to matter. Thank you for a simple yet powerful tutorial!

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Vijay.

[@dcoltonbrown]

Chandoo - Your Excel tutorials are well above par and I have learned so much watching your videos. I've been able to impress myself and my colleagues with your tips and tricks. I'm not a data analyst - but data defines my actions and you have introduced me to so many functions and tips that make a HUGE difference in time and pinpointing issues. Very awesome and very well done in every respect. Thank you, you are appreciated.

[@dcoltonbrown]

Oh, my girlfriend - she said she loves you hair!

[@Raja-d6w]

@@dcoltonbrownonly 5$ dude come on

[@GoldenSlumber474]

Awesome lesson Chandoo! Even in retirement, I continue to extensively use Excel & your Power Query videos have opened a whole new realm of possibilities for my Excel needs. Thank you!

[@chandoo_]

Thanks GS for your passion to learn and love for Data. :)

[@Awachit1]

Hi, is there any opportunities for Business Intelligence/ Data Analysis in Canada?

[@Aryanthakur-yt9bc]

@@Awachit1 India mein he karle bro jitna waha par in hand milta hai ussey zyada he India mein milta hai. Agar bahar jaana hai toh Germany kya

[@MelanieOnDemand]

Before removing duplicates, it is best to handle the letter cases first. Power Query treats lower case and upper case of the same letter as different characters. I would transform all email addresses to lower case before removing duplicates 😉. Great video, Chandoo!!

[@chandoo_]

Amazing tips @Melanieondemand Donut for you. 🍩

[@florisvanderleest7798]

With removing duplicates, one could also remove partial payments, in case the administrators entering new students don’t pay attention to duplicates or made typos

[@Nic-xr1og]

Great tip - thank you!!

[@ggggl8]

Just one Question: What if a student has paid 100 and next time 200, but both these entries are recorded separately so while removing duplicates his 1 entry will be deleted. So how can we counter that?

[@bj_]

Such a versatile tool, I discovered power query by accident years ago and have found new uses for it nearly every month since.

[@TimeManInJail]

You can also create a folder that will automatically format itself if you have other raw data, say a different school but need the same analysis so you can drop the file into the power query folder and it will format everything so you don't have to repeat the steps

[@preetamrajpenugonda4552]

How to do this?

[@Horn_of_Afrika]

How do u do that?

[@nitinpujari9253]

Agreed. Just have to ensure all the column name remains the same

[@martinpaulbannister1745]

Hi. Totally agreed. Power Query is amazing. Level of knowledge required to start is minimum, building skills has you go. Power Pivot data model and DAX is also amazing. And ensures extremely complex task can be developed and repeated without fuss. Martin

[@Kirill628]

Vba is better)

[@chandramohan1418]

Where to find jobs?.

[@martinpaulbannister1745]

I use VBA but only basic coding. Applying protect / unprotect workbook containing hundreds of worksheets. Not looked at VBA to ETL data.

[@infamous8541]

@@Kirill628 yea vba is better, but it'd have took me 20 minutes of writing a code & debugging it to come to the same result that he did without writing a single line of code.

[@malwalsabino519]

Thanks Chandoo! I share with you the passion for Excel and particularly power query. My data cleaning skills started with copy and pass ( like your shorts " Isaw my boss doing this"), then, I discovered Excel formulas and functions and worked with the basics ilke right, left and mid for text then nested formulas/functions combining them with len, substitute etc for more efficient data cleaning and transformation but was sort of manual too. The game change emerged when I discovered power query, and since that time, things changed significantly. Now, I fear no more data consolidation, cleaning, and transformation with full automation. Because of the power query, I still stick to Excel as my first data analytics option. Thanks for the great content... I hope you would consider more content on another Excel power.. The power pivot Stay blessed

[@aptreddy]

Thanks!

[@chandoo_]

Thank you so much for your love and super 😍

[@SISTARRRRR1]

Every time I need help with an analytics tool, I always end up on your channel. Thanks!

[@Soulenergy31]

0:11 focus on PowerQuery, thank you Sen Sei! 0:36 PQ is a data pre-processing engine

[@shaikusman536]

If Data is small Power query, Else: SQL is your friend for large DATA sets......thanks Chandoo...Nxt video Pls compare MsExcel=>Power Query==> SQL....Pros & Cons, Industry Requirement.....

[@markslima1557]

I've never used Power Query in my life, and you made this process clear and rather fun. Thank you and I'm happy to subscribe to your channel!

[@chandoo_]

Welcome aboard Mark. I am glad you enjoyed this.

[@normanknutsen8253]

It is a fantastic tool have been using it for almost two years now and it has made things possible that I would have had to use Access for instead. The file combining feature is, I think the easiest way to combine similar files from a single file folder. Way back when I did the same thing for Access I had to use a good bit of VBA code to do the same thing that Power Query did in less than 10 clicks of the mouse. Love your videos Sir, keep up the good work

[@jasonmurray8777]

I use a lot of Power Query because I make a lot of Power BI dashboards. I spend a lot of time building star schemas - sometimes normalizing, sometimes not - it all depends on what I am trying to do with the data. The point is that I consider it to much more important to model the data for utility than the time I spend on any DAX I might write later. Honestly, its like 80% data modeling and 20% adding visualizations and some measures of calculated tables with DAX later. That said, I recently started going back to pre-formatting more significant transformations in SQL Server rather than trying to clean it up in Power Query. Loading some data into a data mart first to transform it with SQL, and then creating a view I can pull from into Power BI, is often a game changer for not having to do so many transforms in Power BI with Power Query. Put SQL and Power Query altogether and you can provide some very fast loading and amazing data visualization and reports with the Power BI report app too (you know - SSRS 2.0 for the cloud).

[@abbylynn8872]

Thank you for this. This completely resonated with me. 💕

[@saurabhdwivedi5866]

Hi @Jason Murray can you please elaborate it a bit so that a new data student like me will have good insight about the process you have mentioned.

[@jasonmurray8777]

@@saurabhdwivedi5866 Creating a good data model, most typically a star schema with a central fact table (or tables) surrounded by dimension tables (the things you will use as filters or slicers) is far more important than what you will do with DAX later. You need to understand the implications of any data model you create because if you don't you will often find yourself going back to the data model and possibly starting from scratch because you have painted yourself into a corner and no amount of DAX will get you out of it. That said, the model you choose will be affected by what existing relationships and cardinality exist within your data as well as your requirements for grain (granularity/precision) and, when very large data sets are involved, balancing those grain requirements against speed requirements. That said, my advice in this respect is, unless you have data that has already been modeled and has a data dictionary (or you are only working a single table or two), then you need to spend some time profiling your data when you start and make an entity relationship diagram (ERD). That ERD will most likely highlight for you what you can and can't do with your data and often leads you to realize what other data you need, but might not have, in order to meet requirements in the ultimate dashboard. With respect to my comment about using SQL first. You will likely often use data from a SQL database using an ODBC connection to pull it into Power BI. A database is typically a lot faster than Power BI and having pre-modeled data coming over from the SQL side will save you a lot of modeling on the Power BI side. Typically what you would do is create a view (or views) on the database side that have your data already as close to perfect as possible so you don't have to spend time cleaning it up in Power BI. Next, you would have a parameterized stored procedure to call against that view, even if the parameter was as broad as * (select everything). Accounts calling against the view would be in a role in the database that has minimum permissions to call those stored procedures against a schema that contains views for BI purposes (things like power BI) and that role would not have permissions to do anything else. This will help protect the data in your DB by not exposing the base table names, prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities, and make your data updates into Power BI that much faster. If you are savvy , you could also design a stored procedure in a way that only returns incremental updates for faster data loads without having to do the complex setup for incremental data on the Power Bi side. Anyhow, that is probably a lot more detail and probably leads you to many more questions. I suggest reading up on star models, ERDs, normalization, cardinality, and grain as well as the use of views with carefully permissioned stored procedures (in their own schema so you can manage the security at that level rather than by individual views) to provide efficient and secure return of data from a DB into Power BI rather than just doing everything inefficiently on the power bi side or making up for data model deficiencies with DAX wizardry later.

[@saurabhdwivedi5866]

@@jasonmurray8777 Thankyou soo much. For sure I will go through the above mentioned point.

[@Anvesh2013]

@@jasonmurray8777 thank you, I always wondered that why would we need to do those major cleanup work before going into the visuals, when we usually are prepared for the visuals only after the guarantee that the available data is rock solid in the database/(whichever source)..

[@rahulranjan8511]

If anyone wants to learn with authenticity Microsoft Excel, Chandoo will be game changer for you..highly recommend for learning MS excel concepts from scratch.

[@shafimirza8551]

All your videos are worth watching.. we end up learning something new always...thank u so much for sharing your knowledge..😊

[@ktp.]

My absolute favourite learning channel. I will have to check out your training courses on your site - your YT vids inspire me to work with data!! Sincerely much appreciated!!!

[@chandoo_]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Sandroider]

Thanks! 8:22 it is usually good to check how many duplicates there are using View - Data Preview

[@futurehopeobioma670]

Chandoo you are simply too much. I'm short of words. Thanks a lot.

[@chandoo_]

You are most welcome

[@NdifelaniMurida]

Thank you so much for your generosity, knowledge, and experience. I enjoy your teaching style which is slow-paced and thorough. It is excellent for beginners like me. Much appreciated.

[@justbeingfrank6342]

Chandoo - These videos are fantastic. I follow a few YT channels whose niche charges are Microsoft “services” they are great. However, you are killing it with the micro-niche of Microsoft Excel. Keep up the incredible work. Your channel has been instrumental. Thank you.

[@chandoo_]

So glad to hear that JBF. Thanks for your love and support.

[@niteeshmishra2790]

Love You chandu Sir From Uttarpradesh Amethi, Jay hind Wande matram 🇮🇳🙏

[@suvamtechnical]

you are such a good trainer. your ways of making understand others are very nice. very knowledgeable video.

[@pampapathipampareddy9835]

I have been learning since 2013 with yours help ,thanks

[@petrosagbaleme9726]

Hum, Chandoo is in another dimension more than the humain! I want to learn from you Sir and get my first job as a junior data analyst si possible.

[@kaitlinbero1894]

Thanks to you, I am learning so much about Excel. With my new job they do not provide the best training, so to have this and all these wonderful videos has helped me a great deal. Thank you, Chandoo!

[@AndreassaerdnA]

Best kind of explanations I ever seen in KZbin. Good job 👍🏻

[@sumakudala688]

Every time you come with Valuable content. Thank you sir

[@thuynportalios2337]

I am a beginner to learn about Power Query and your video is easy to understand and follow your steps. When dealing with blanks, if a row is not blank all the way and is deleted, all information in other columns across the row will also be deleted. Will that be a concern when cleaning up the data? Thanks.

[@ahmedabdulahimahamud3272]

Thank you so much, from the date I found your Channel, I admire data cleaning and analyzing it in pivot tables. Thank you once again

[@ifoodieTV]

Where did you start from? He has a lot of videos.

[@Bethwel1]

You have made the complex simple to follow and understand. Thank you very much.

[@reazahmed7004]

You are just amazing! I was able to follow you 100%. Keep up your good work.

[@shanmugapriyayu2141]

Hi Chandoo. Can you please show a video of how to use power query for Mark Analysis and Teacher Analysis report and charts. Your videos are greatly inspiring and I've been learning so much from them. As a teacher trainer, I'm quite fascinated by the way you explain things and I m excited to know how I can use Power Query and Power BI to generate performance of students

[@chandoo_]

Good points Shanmugapriya. I will add a video on this topic in upcoming months.

[@johnford3825]

Excellent presentation. I hope to use this to transfer and analyse some data held in multiple pdf’s

[@MuntyStain]

I like the pace and the tone you have, thank you, you're making this easy for me :)

[@kwesikwesi4261]

This is soooooo cool and understanding. Very slow and explainable. Thank you sir

[@kamaur01]

@Chandoo you are always good. I didn't even finish the video, and I already like what I'm learning. Great video and thank you.

[@shaikjalal1274]

Hello Chandoo i have seen your KZbin content and i love that its awsom and unique. thankyou your doing well 👏👏👍😇

[@mohdayazuddinshaikh4454]

Hi Chandoo, please continue such series of Power Query. Your way of teaching is amazing 🤗

[@ilyakabanov1820]

Totally agree. It's an essential ETL tool. DAX is aggregation, but those who deal with the real world know how many errors, omissions, and data overlaps one needs to resolve before doing any meaningful analysis

[@chandoo_]

Better data → Easier DAX. That is why PQ is the key to successful data analysis.

[@chrism9037]

Thanks Chandoo! PQ is so amazing, I am still learning and have only scratched the surface of how to use it

[@GoGoTwice]

Thank you for this great tutorial/walkthrough, really helpful and just the right speed!

[@akkenapellysindhuja9896]

Thank you so much Sir. It was really a godly session to me. I would like to apply this power query in my work. One more skills added to my one year Experience in Job☺.

[@GuyOrlov]

I am big fan of your channel, I love that, I am in the data analyst training, I would love to understand more use DAX tricks too, it seems a bit harsh to study!

[@evapinter2326]

Thank you so much. I am watching your videos and becoming awsome in Excel

[@SaleemKhan-hm2br]

Thank you Chandoo Jee. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@danjarupath]

7:00 select..remove empty is better untick null, blank

[@mantis1787]

That shirt! 😀 I appreciate your teaching and humor, Chandoo!

[@napstervn]

thank you so much for the very quickly useful and informative lesson

[@MrDhunpagla]

Gurudev 🙏this one is absolutely necessary one for us & you put it in an awesome manner like always....Thanks a lot

[@mitch6912]

Amazing knowledge. Thanks for sharing Chandoo

[@jasongins]

Tip: Disable the background refresh on the query. I noticed my pivot tables were still showing old data after hitting "refresh all." Disabling background refresh on the query will force the pivot tables to wait for the query to complete before they refresh and you will no longer have to refresh to pivot tables separately.

[@Lobsterman777]

Wow, interesting! Actually I like to put refresh pivots later because I can trank what are changes done and can easily undo/redo then, but still nice to know! :)

[@vinodkamath2057]

You are a great teacher Sir.. This tutorial has changed a lot in my working.. I bow down to you 😢🙏🙏❤

[@chandoo_]

You are very welcome

[@HiteshSawant-d9v]

I found you the finest and easiest mentor. .. Love your teaching pattern

[@ram-it.damn-it]

@chandoo Power query is not emphasized enough as a tool and it can do wonders. Can likely replace VBA. Do you mind sharing your desk brand and model plz.

[@okpalaemmanuelchijioke5978]

Thanks for your great video always. Please which version of Excel are you using. Seems it's the advanced/recent version. Mine- 2016 don't have some features like- Example columns, conditional columns, etc

[@pgkannan]

Excellent power query logic will help both Excel and Power BI

[@waheedakhtar9242]

COuld you please preare the video on the Bank Reconsilation statement base on two column one is reference and other is amount , THANK YOU LOT

[@deepakverma79998]

you are awesome Mr. Chandoo.....Chandoo Bhiya here Deepak

[@sairamadaboina8257]

Thank you Sir, good explanation, please upload more and more videos.

[@AamirKhan-nq9bv]

Example from column and conditional column is not available in my office 2016 . what to do? and how to apply same method like you teach us.

[@AdeshGhodekar-j2w]

Such incredible and inspiring content for datasets. Thank you, sir

[@zaafirc369]

Good video to show the power of Power Query. It definitely facilitates data cleaning, be it in Excel or Power BI. I wish it worked with big data. It tends to get really slow as the data size increases. But overall, it is a good tool to have.

[@ganeshn3800]

So for big data... What are the options? I mean VBA or any other tool we have? Thanks.

[@dr.abraham_mallela]

Amazing video as alwyas sir. I just have one doubt. what is your take on IBM SPSS as a data analysis software ?

[@CaribouDataScience]

Hey, I really like your Power Query min course How ever I am a little confused about which Excel notebook to use for which video? Which video do I use with video 3?

[@mirateequrrahman8478]

You're fabulous sir.... Much much respect...👏👏

[@mauricioalejandro74]

Is it just me or does Chandoo have a soothing therapeutic voice?

[@muhammednaijun]

Hi Frnds, Does Mac version of Office Excel have Power Query or Power BI?

[@moisestatis5418]

Chandoo, thanks for your advice with examples. Great tool, and I have already started to learn it. A question: why do you have 2 keyboards? 😁

[@AmyhoGeokmui]

Hi Chandon,can we do data for monthly sales with for different products in excel ?

[@lokeshr9225]

Excited and waiting for your valuable content sir❤️

[@MrRskpsannaksr]

Hi Chandoo this is a great video I have a questionthough in excel i am want to concatenate multiple row value based on a unique identifier using the if function can we do that in power query as well? Your response is much appreciated

[@markreichard2144]

Another excellent video with clear explanations and examples.

[@chandoo_]

Glad you liked it!

[@AmyhoGeokmui]

It is so informative and helpful …many thanks, chandoo

[@anandl2003]

Hello This awesome Kudos! Chandoo Great thanks a lot. Sure will love to learn more about power query.👍🏼🙂

[@kardiacc]

Can I take the tasks that I learned from here, apply them myself and upload my work as a project in Linkedin? Or are such small things not supposed to be put there? Would appreciate some assistance.

[@kajaldevkar9819]

your videos are very useful for beginners

[@PriyankaKumari-zj2bf]

Hi, chandoo can you please advise if there is no option for a column with example. I am using Excel 2016 and there is only one option as add custom column

[@WARP1G27]

Hi Chandoo, how would I setup the query so that I can send dashboard to someone else and still have the data be dynamic seeing as the file/folder that the data was being pulled from has now been moved?

[@lavon4111]

Chandoo. I really appreciate your channel. I’m learning a lot as I’m wanting to become a DA. I was wondering. How important is it to learn SQL? It seems Excel and Power BI alone is enough for data analysis.

[@adambalaz1604]

Hi, amazing video, thank you so much for this. May I ask you - if I have multiple sheets of similar data tables in one excel file and they all require the same cleanup and edits, what is the best way to do it? I did it with one but I cant figure out how to reapply those stepa further. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome. Please see this video for the process to clean and compile multiple sheet data with Power Query kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZDYmKaef5mqf9k

[@gonzalofuste]

great job Chandoo¡¡ you have created a really interesting channel ¡¡¡

[@MrPapiBanda]

Great video..wants more videos like this. ♥ from Bangladesh

[@rjbanavar]

Thanks a Ton sir. I had enrolled for course on PQ, but guy had made it so boring and untasteful. You just made it so interesting 🙏

[@cassiemeyer1164]

So good! Thank you Chandoo!!!

[@sunday2201]

Chandoo, Can I use 2010 Excel program, please. Or should I obtain any version above 2010 Excel program. Please assist me.

[@adsonnet]

we are waiting for it till now, Thank you.

[@awesomeraj953]

Today, this is your 3rd video which I am watching and learning from.

[@dwemer2610]

Power query's very useful as the intermediate step in between data e datavis, if you don't know good sql, your (power) querys, so as yours BIs, will be as performatic as a potato, when you're working with big datasets. Also, everything power query can do, dax can do better and more performatic, obviously once you load your raw, but clean, data with power query. As for me i'll confess once i started use sql and dax, power query only serves for me to load the data when not using direct query.

[@morrismaina1413]

You are a great teacher!

[@jeevan7657]

Thank you so much for the lecture 😊

[@ManishKumar-jx4eg]

Thank you for this excellent power query session, you alwasy make it look easy & understandable. :)

[@avishekd4229]

Thank you Chandoo for educating us

[@7dx549]

Simple and more powerful✅

[@rinakaur7245]

What if you want to remove rows in between? Eg delete top3 rows, keep 4th row but delete 5th row?

[@anwarmohdsha]

more power to you Chandoo, thanks for this video

[@meenajanakiraman8083]

I am using the 2010 version of Excel. I didn't see those options you showed. Instead, what options should I choose to get into Power Query?

[@Uttarakhandi214]

thank you chandoo sir....making things awesome

[@CaribouDataScience]

How can I change the default date format to 2023-01-10?