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Grouping about 130k rows data (messy) into Categories
dear All, I have an issue need to overcome. I have about 130k rows data in Excel file for Products name. It's very messy/dirty data. How I can polish it and grouping into Categories Product? Please suggest any tools or software or the ways so I can try to learn on this. Thank you
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Hello @nganbla ,
You can refer to the following documentation to clean up your data in Excel or with Power Query.
10 super nice ways to clean up data in Excel spreadsheets
Importing and cleaning data with Power Query
If you still don't know how to deal with this cluttered data after reviewing the above documentation, provide some sample data and the desired result with examples(exclude sensitive data). It seems that you want to group the data by category, is there any logic or conditions that must be met? If yes, please provide related details. Thank you.
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Hello @nganbla ,
You can refer to the following documentation to clean up your data in Excel or with Power Query.
10 super nice ways to clean up data in Excel spreadsheets
Importing and cleaning data with Power Query
If you still don't know how to deal with this cluttered data after reviewing the above documentation, provide some sample data and the desired result with examples(exclude sensitive data). It seems that you want to group the data by category, is there any logic or conditions that must be met? If yes, please provide related details. Thank you.
Best regards
Rena
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@Anonymous , There is something known as fuzzy merging. See if that can help in your case
https://www.poweredsolutions.co/2019/03/26/fuzzy-matching-in-power-bi-power-query/
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@Anonymous Going to need to see what we are dealing with (sample data) If you have pre-defined categories you want, you could Power Query Merge query which has fuzzy matching capability or DAX Fuzzy Quick Measure:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Fuzzy/td-p/1352914
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