Every time you need to make quick informed decisions, but feel obstacles in your way to insights, you should remind yourself that these moments can change from maddening frustration to sheer excitement and fun. Every time you rely on others to get your data in the right shape and condition, you should know that there is an easier way. Every time you copy/paste the same type of data to your workbook, and manually clean it, you are probably wasting precious time, unaware of the potential in front of you. Easy than ever, and available for everyone. The tool is called Power Query and it is now a game-changer technology for self-service ETL, which is available in Excel, Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, Microsoft Flows, and Power Apps. You now have the table from the Web in an Excel sheet.You do work with Excel, or Power BI, right? Did you know that there is an amazing new feature in Excel and Power BI that allows you to do magic in your data, avoid repetitive manual work and save you time and money? Notice as you click through the list of tables on the left side of the screen, the tables appear in the preview screen on the right.Ĭongratulations. In the pop up window, copy and paste the URL to the Wikipedia Pageĥ. 
Locate the Power Query Tab on the Ribbon Bar If you open up the Wikipedia page and scroll down a bit, you will see a table: Championship games, by year, showing winners and losers, final scores and venues. This the table we will be extracting into Excel. Here is a link to the website: Link to Wikipedia Site In this example we will be extracting data from the Wikipedia page “ List of NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball champions“. Power Query makes pulling data from a website quick and easy.
For Excel 20, here is a link to the download: Power Query If you are running Office 2016, Power Query should already be available. For this tutorial, you will need to have Power Query installed.
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