Getting started with Power Query and Power Map Power Query and Power Map are two of the new Excel features for Power BI announced this morning at the Worldwide Partner Conference. Together, these two tools enhance the self-service business intelligence experience in Excel by allowing you to discover, combine, refine and visualize your data. But as you will see in this post, self-service BI can become truly personal depending on the nature of the questions that you are trying to answer. Note that Power Query was previously known as Codename “Data Explorer”. Similarly, Power Map was previously known as Project codename “GeoFlow”. Let’s say your 10 year anniversary is approaching and you might be thinking about a good place to have a nice dinner with your partner. We would like to show you how Power Query and Power Map can help you gather some insights to make a good decision. In order to achieve this, we will look at publicly available data using the Yelp API to look at ratings and reviews for restaurants. For the purpose of this post, we will focus on the King County area (Redmond, WA). http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2013/07/07/getting-started-with-pq-and-pm.aspx

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