Milwaukee Brew City PUG – Oct 2020

October 29, 2020 By Mike Carlo

The Milwaukee Crew is back at it again with the October 2020 Power BI User Group (PUG). This month we have the amazing Gil Raviv talk to us about Power Query and the Enterprise. For those of you who don’t know Gil he is a superb Power Query Expert.

Gil talks to about Power Query in different enterprise domains. Learn which tools to use and which ones are not quite ready for prime time. You will learn a ton in this great session.

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Links Discussed in this Session

We had many different topics and some links that were shared here are the highlighted links that were discussed in this session.

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