I love PowerBI, actually I love PowerQuery. It's a great way to combine data from around your business, across the web from anywhere. What I really like is very little is done automatically, i.e. it doesn't do the nice data type detection you get with Excel that screws your imports if the data type in a column differs from the first few rows to the rest of the file. Does that make it difficult to use. No its not. The nice thing is that its very easy to add additional columns, change data...(read more)

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