Join me to learn about Data Preparation with Power Query and Power BI. This free webinar hosted by Power BI team and I will speak about techniques in Power Query that helps you transform the data and prepare it in the way required for your business. Expect many demos in this session from Power Query in Excel and Power BI. For those of you who haven’t been in my session at PASS BA San Jose, this is shrink-ed version of my 2 hours talk there in only one hour. I’ve been honored to speak there, and it would be pleasure to meet you all there online.
Session Title: Data Preparation is the Keystone
Description
In this demo-heavy, roller-coaster-ride of a webinar Reza Rad will show what you can achieve using Power Query, the data extraction, transformation, and mash up tool. Power Query can be accessed through Excel or from Power BI Desktop, and has numerous data transformation features that can be used to solve real-world data preparation challenges.
Reza will use customer case studies to go through scenarios of preparing data for modelling and visualization. In this webinar you will learn:
- How to use features of Power Query such as generators and custom functions
- What built-in functions are available to solve your data challenges
- Data preparation techniques through Excel
- … and much more!
Date and Time
May 24, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. PT
Join Webinar here
http://aka.ms/communitywebinar
Link of my Session
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webinar-5-24-data-preparation-is-the-keystone-by-reza-rad/
His articles on different aspects of technologies, especially on MS BI, can be found on his blog: https://radacad.com/blog.
He wrote some books on MS SQL BI and also is writing some others, He was also an active member on online technical forums such as MSDN and Experts-Exchange, and was a moderator of MSDN SQL Server forums, and is an MCP, MCSE, and MCITP of BI. He is the leader of the New Zealand Business Intelligence users group. He is also the author of very popular book Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star, which is free with more than 1700 pages of content and the Power BI Pro Architecture published by Apress.
He is an International Speaker in Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Data Insight Summit, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday and SQL user groups. And He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Reza’s passion is to help you find the best data solution, he is Data enthusiast.
Is there a recorded version of the webinar presented yesterday (May 24, 2016) titled “Data Preparation is the Keystone”. I was unable to attend and am very interested in learning more on this topic
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your interest. I believe session recording will be available soon, I don’t have it myself yet, But Microsoft has that I believe and will send an email to all registered email addresses.
Cheers,
Reza