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Numerical

transformations in
Power Query
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Maarten Van den Broeck


Content Developer at DataCamp
Why should you clean data?
Cost of bad data = $3.1 trillion
The 1-10-100 rule
$1 to verify

$10 to clean

$100 if you do nothing

1 https://hbr.org/2016/09/bad-data-costs-the-u-s-3-trillion-per-year

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What is clean numerical data?
Free from missing values / errors / outliers

Mathematical transformations are applied (if applicable):


Absolute value
Logarithm (Natural / Base 10)

Multiplying by / adding a scalar value

Data is rounded to the appropriate amount of digits

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On date columns
Date (and time) is considered a separate data type in Power Query
Special transformations can be applied to a date column:
Extract year, quarter, month, week, day

Start/end of year, quarter, month, week

Extract age

Other

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Let's practice!
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Numerical
transformations
D ATA P R E PA R AT I O N I N P O W E R B I

Maarten Van den Broeck


Content Developer at DataCamp
Let's practice!
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Congratulations!
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Maarten Van den Broeck


Content Developer at DataCamp
Wrap-up of what you've learned
Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Clean data Column distribution

Data types Column quality

Basic structural transformations Column profile

Chapter 3 Chapter 4
Clean text data Clean numerical data

Splitting and combining text columns Mathematical operations


Date manipulation

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What's next?
Data Transformation in Power BI

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See you again!
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