Andrea Janicijevic - Power Query Cookbook: Use effective and powerful queries in Power BI Desktop and Dataflows to prepare and transform your data

Use effective and powerful queries in Power BI Desktop and Dataflows to prepare and transform your data

Andrea Janicijevic

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To my family, who have always supported me during my studies and my professional experience and have been key in me becoming the woman I am today. To my colleague, Patrik Borosch, who introduced me to this opportunity, and to my manager, Zoran Draganic, who gave me the freedom to pursue this exciting journey.

Andrea Janicijevic

Andrea Janicijevic is a cloud solution architect and works in the world of analytics and business intelligence, constantly expanding her knowledge in the field of data. From the outset, she has been working on analytics platforms, helping clients to better adopt cloud technology across a wide range of industries and company sizes.

She studied economics and management of innovation and technology at Bocconi University in Milan and during her studies, she started working at Microsoft in 2018. She began working with the Microsoft analytics platform, including Power BI, becoming a trusted technical advisor for business and technical users. She later started collaborating with Packt, accepting the challenge of sharing her experience with Power Query.

Patrik Borosch is a cloud solution architect for data and AI at Microsoft Switzerland GmbH. He has more than 25 years of BI and analytics development, engineering, and architecture experience and is a Microsoft Certified Data Engineer and a Microsoft Certified AI Engineer. Patrik has worked on numerous significant international data warehouse, data integration, and big data projects. Through this, he has built and extended his experience in all facets, from requirements engineering to data modeling and ETL, all the way to reporting and dashboarding. At Microsoft Switzerland, he supports customers in their journey into the analytical world of the Azure Cloud.

Michiel Rozema is one of Europe's top Power BI experts, living in the Netherlands. He holds a master's degree in mathematics and has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years as a consultant and manager. Michiel was the data insight lead at Microsoft Netherlands for 8 years, during which time he launched Power BI in the country. He is the author of two Dutch books on Power Pivot and Power BI, and is the author of the Extreme DAX title with Packt Publishing. Michiel is one of the founders of the Dutch Power BI user group and the initiator of the Power BI Summer School, and has been a speaker at many conferences on Power BI. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award since 2019 and, together with fellow MVP Henk Vlootman, runs the consultancy firm Quanto, specializing in Power BI.