2. Power Query Discovery and connectivity to a wide range of data sources
Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries
Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources
Joins across different data sources
Ability to create custom views over data that can then be shared

3. Power Query An Excel add-in for Excel 2010 and higher
Part of Power BI Desktop
Identify and import external data
Combine and transform multiple data sources
Easy to use visual interface
Power Query Language M

4. Data Sources

5. Demo: Connecting to Data Sources

6. Shaping Data

7. Shaping Data Format columns Transpose rows and columns
Pivot/Unpivot columns
Split Columns
Rename columns
Remove rows and columns
Split columns
Set data types
Replace values
Remove duplicates
Merge and append queries
Adding Columns
Adding Keys
Merging Columns
Date and Time Calculations

8. Demo: Shaping Data

9. Power Query Formula Language (M)
Code behind the GUI
Functional Language
Has more functionality than exposed by GUI
Case Sensitive
Can Use Parameters
Contains Error Handling Functions

10. Demo: Advanced Data Shaping