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I consider myself to have an advanced excel skill set, but I'm pretty fresh when it comes to working with PowerBI/PowerPivot.
I have some question regarding the best practice to clean up my columns of data. For example...
I'm doing a data export from an ERP into a csv file. In that export, some of the columns come in not how I would like such as this..
[Office]
Office : New York
Office : Florida
Office : California
So what I do is just import that csv as-is into PowerBI then use a calculated column formula logic to transform it into
[Office_Transformed]
New York
Florida
California
I have several other columns that have this issue. But this leaves me with double the columns I need on each table
So my question(s) is,
Is this something I should do within PowerBI?
Should I alter the csv before I upload?
Should I work with IT and figure out a way to alter the export on the ERP?
Thanks
Solved! Go to Solution.
I think that you can sue the Extract option in power query mode as "Extract Text Adter Delimiter:
I think that you can sue the Extract option in power query mode as "Extract Text Adter Delimiter:
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