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Hello I have given this messy data as attached:
What if I want to convert this into like the following, what should I do?
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@ringocheng618 , you might want to try,
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8kvMTVXSQaFidaKVAlJLUouAAr6JRZVAKqQoMQ8s7pJakFhUkpuaVwIUxcUBKQTqyMzLzEsHyjgHAwmPILBwoCGQDSNAAkZApjkQm0KkQVwYARIwATJNENLGIBkoARIA6TQDmwCWBqmEESABY1TdpiAZKIEsDbQqFgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t, Column3 = _t]),
#"Transformed Table" = Table.Combine(List.Transform(Table.ToColumns(Source), each Table.PromoteHeaders(Table.FromColumns(List.Split(_,2))))),
#"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Transformed Table", {"Name", "Department"}, "Q#", "Score")
in
#"Unpivoted Other Columns"
| Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension! |
DAX is simple, but NOT EASY! |
@ringocheng618 , you might want to try,
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8kvMTVXSQaFidaKVAlJLUouAAr6JRZVAKqQoMQ8s7pJakFhUkpuaVwIUxcUBKQTqyMzLzEsHyjgHAwmPILBwoCGQDSNAAkZApjkQm0KkQVwYARIwATJNENLGIBkoARIA6TQDmwCWBqmEESABY1TdpiAZKIEsDbQqFgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t, Column3 = _t]),
#"Transformed Table" = Table.Combine(List.Transform(Table.ToColumns(Source), each Table.PromoteHeaders(Table.FromColumns(List.Split(_,2))))),
#"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Transformed Table", {"Name", "Department"}, "Q#", "Score")
in
#"Unpivoted Other Columns"
| Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension! |
DAX is simple, but NOT EASY! |
I believe there are other ways to do it. Paste the code in Advanced Editor, see the output
let
Source = Table.FromRows(
Json.Document(
Binary.Decompress(
Binary.FromText(
"i45W8kvMTVXSQaFidaKVAlJLUouAAr6JRZVAKqQoMQ8s7pJaUALkI1MgYaB8Zl5mXjpQzDkYSHgEgYUDDYFsGAESMAIyzYHYFCIN4sIIkIAJkGmCkDYGyUAJkABIpxnYBLA0SCWMAAkYo+o2BclACWRpoFWxAA==",
BinaryEncoding.Base64
),
Compression.Deflate
)
),
let
_t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true])
in
type table [#"Field 1" = _t, #"Field 2" = _t, #"Field 3" = _t]
),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(
Source,
{{"Field 1", type text}, {"Field 2", type text}, {"Field 3", type text}}
),
#"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Changed Type"),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(
#"Transposed Table",
{"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4"},
{{"allrows", each Table.Skip(Table.Transpose(_), 4), type table}}
),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(
#"Grouped Rows",
"Custom",
each [
a = Table.AddIndexColumn([allrows], "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
b = Table.AddColumn(a, "Custom", each Number.RoundDown([Index] / 2)),
c = Table.Group(b, {"Custom"}, {{"Q", each Table.Transpose(Table.FromList(_[Column1]))}})
][c]
),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", {"Q"}, {"Q"}),
#"Expanded Q" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(
#"Expanded Custom",
"Q",
{"Column1", "Column2"},
{"Column1.1", "Column2.1"}
),
#"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Expanded Q", "Custom", each Text.At([Column1.1], 1)),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(
#"Added Custom1",
{{"Column2", "Name"}, {"Column4", "Dept"}, {"Custom", "Q#"}, {"Column2.1", "Score"}}
),
#"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(
#"Renamed Columns",
{"Name", "Dept", "Q#", "Score"}
)
in
#"Removed Other Columns"
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