Learn Power BI basics in this beginner tutorial. Master the interface, connect data sources, clean data, and build your first data model.

Although many Power BI functions are also available in Microsoft Excel with the add-on Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View and Power Map tools, Power BI is easier to use and more intuitive.

Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence (BI). With Power BI, you can pull data from almost any data source and create dashboards that ...

In short, Power Query has one primary purpose: to save you time when handling data. More specifically, it can be used to clean up data already in Excel, import and organize data from lots of ...

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Unlike Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI doesn’t have the ability to build custom sorts. However, you can sort one column by another, which is effectively the same thing and easy to implement.