Synopsis
This book is about Power Query and M Code.Power Query and the functional language M Code (M) are the heart and soul of Microsoft’ s power data analysis tools: Excel, Power BI Desktop and Dataflows. The beautiful data driven and insightful PivotTables, Power BI solutions and Dashboards that you create usually require that you use Power Query and M Code to get, transform and load the data before you create the final reports and visuals. For many data analysis jobs, using the SQL language to perform ETL (extract, transform and load) is the preferred tool. Maybe even R or Python. But if you use Power BI or Excel, you better also be masterful with M Code and Power Query. Together, they give you the power to connect to multiple data sources, structuring your data with ease, and load to the worksheet, the data model in Excel or Power BI or Dataflow’ s Data Hub.As an accountant, professor, data analyst, author, Excel MVP and YouTuber for about 20 years, my specialty is in telling stories with videos and books to make complicated things less complicated and to inspire you to have fun with the power you can gain over data.
About the Author
Mike “excelisfun” Girvin is a Highline College Business Instructor since 2002, the creator and mastermind of the excelisfun channel at YouTube since 2008 and was a Microsoft Excel MVP from 2013 to 2024. The excelisfun channel is the internet leader in bringing Free Excel & Power BI Education to the World since 2008 with a million subscribers, 3,700 videos, 10,000 downloadable files, a 100 playlists and 20 different free classes such as: Excel Basics, Advanced Excel, Power BI, Data Analysis, Analytics, Statistics, Math and much more. Mike Girvin has also authored several Excel Books and DVDs and has won numerous awards for teaching Excel. Before joining academia in 2002 Mike “Gel” Girvin ran the boomerang manufacturing company, Gel Boomerangs, in Oakland, CA from 1984 to 2002, winning numerous boomerang design and competition awards. It was while running Gel Boomerangs in the 1990s that Steve Kavanaugh showed Mike Girvin Excel for the first time. From that point forward, the power and fun of Excel was inescapable, and he went on to be an Excel teacher for the world! Currently, when Mike “Magic” Girvin is not creating Excel & Power BI solutions, you can find him each weekend out racing and parking BMX bikes with fellow rad old guys and his kid Isaac “Iceman” Girvin.
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