Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI - with Material - How to Transpose?

The video tutorial demonstrates how to handle horizontally formatted data in Power BI by transposing it into a vertical format. It covers importing data from Excel, cleaning unnecessary rows, transposing the table, promoting headers, and setting data types. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of closing the data source file before importing and highlights Power BI's ability to automatically detect data types.

What is the initial problem with the data format in Power BI?

• The data is in a vertical format.

• The data is missing headers.

• The data is in a horizontal format.

• The data contains duplicate entries.

What should you do before importing an Excel file into Power BI?

• Ensure the file is open.

• Ensure the file is closed.

• Rename the file.

• Convert the file to CSV format.

How can you remove the first three rows in Power BI?

• Use the 'Remove Bottom Rows' option.

• Use the 'Remove Top Rows' option.

• Use the 'Filter Rows' option.

• Use the 'Delete Rows' option.

What is the purpose of the 'Transpose' button in Power BI?

• To duplicate the data.

• To sort data alphabetically.

• To convert data into a horizontal format.

• To convert data into a vertical format.

What does Power Query do after promoting headers?

• It removes all data types.

• It assigns data types to columns.

• It deletes the first row.

• It duplicates the headers.