Power Query

This post shows how to call an Azure Function from Power BI. This scenario offers some interesting possibilities, because it allows for integrating the power of several common programming languages with Power BI and Power Query. If you’re not familiar with Azure Functions, it’s a service that allows you to run small pieces of code without having to deal with a server. In this example, we’ll write a query in Power BI that submits a time zone to an Azure Function....

For my inaugural Power Query post, I’ll show how you can get data from the Twitter API, specifically the Twitter GET search/tweets method. The web API is one of my favorite data sources in Power Query, because it opens a new world of data to Excel users. There are literally thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of APIs out there. Some examples include Data.gov, United States Census, Weather Underground, and Twitter....