Building a curated query to populate a Date table
Date aggregations are an important component of both Power BI and business intelligence tools as a whole. Understanding and recalculating trends at the level of weeks, months, quarters, and years adds robust analytical capabilities. Date tables can even be used to slice and dice data by weekends, holidays, fiscal calendars, and more. Power BI even has the capability to specify a table as a Date table to enable special time intelligence capabilities.
A .csv file of Date data is available at the Packt GitHub site link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Unleashing-Your-Data-with-Power-BI-Machine-Learning-and-OpenAI/tree/main/Chapter-02. Follow these steps to bring it into Power Query:
- Copy https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PacktPublishing/Unleashing-Your-Data-with-Power-BI-Machine-Learning-and-OpenAI/main/Chapter-02/date.csv.
- In Power Query, select New Source and then Web. Paste in the URL and hit OK.
- When the preview...
