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Course NT-PowerQa Extracting and transforming data using Power Query: advanced course

Power Query – a powerful tool for automating work with data, allowing you to receive, clean and transform information from different sources without writing complex code.

There are 2 courses for study Power Query in the educational center «Networking Technologies». This course is a continuation of the basic training on Power Query and is designed for those who already have a basic knowledge of the tool and want to deepen their skills. You will master more complex data processing scenarios, non-standard transformations and learn how to automate workflows. We will look at extended possibilities Power Query, optimization queries, let's go deeper work with the M language and apply the acquired knowledge in practice through real business tasks.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Connect to different sources to obtain data;
  • competently structure queries, group, duplicate and analyze their relationships;
  • Tune automatic update queries via VBA;
  • Write complex queries in M language;
  • Optimize query performance and work efficiently with large data sets.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for those who already use Power Query at a basic level and wants to automate routine processes and improve data management.

Advanced Power Query will be useful primarily for:

  • Analysts and financiers working with large volumes of data and seeking to automate routine processes;
  • Business users who need to quickly retrieve and process data from different sources;
  • IT professionals and administrators who want to learn how to effectively integrate and update data in Power Query;
  • Anyone who already has basic knowledge of Power Query and plans to take the tool to the next level to work with large amounts of data effortlessly.

Before attending this course, students must have:

Skill work with Power Query as part of the basic course NT- PowerQ

1. Obtaining data from different sources

  • Databases: Access, OData
  • Cloudy services: SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive
  • Files And web resources: XML, JSON, PDF

2. Managing Requests

  • Structuring and optimization: grouping, duplication, query links
  • Relationship Analysis: Viewing Query Dependencies

3. Protecting and updating queries

  • Protecting queries from accidental changes
  • Automatic data update via VBA

4. Working with M language

  • Error handling and data type checking
  • Features of calculations: nuances of the division operation
  • Keyword «each» in complex filters
  • Functions for working with dates, times, lists and tables
  • Dynamic queries with parameters: List of values and Query

5. Applied cases of solving business tasks

  • Automation of data processing
    • Normalization of tables
    • Optimization of test processing
    • Teams meeting reports
    • Working with business trip data
  • Analytical data processing
    • Comparison of price lists
    • Finding matches in large data sets
    • Building cumulative totals
    • ABC analysis
  • Advanced visualization and reporting
    • Analysis of warehouse balances
    • ISO Week Number Definition
    • Building a Gantt chart

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Course Code

NT-PowerQa

Length, days (hours)

1 (6)

Closest dates

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Price, UAH