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Power BI April 2017 Release

April 4, 2017 By Mike Carlo
Power BI April 2017 Release

With another month comes another exciting release of PowerBI desktop.  This month we have a number of really interesting features releases.  One of the more interesting feature releases you should definitely check out is the Add Column by Example.  I have seen a demo of this feature and can definitely see the potential for speeding up the data cleansing process in the query editor.  I’ve also included the YouTube video below for this feature.

To read about the full release from Microsoft hit the link here.

The April 2017 Update:

Check out the Add Column by Example demo:

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