{"id":1826,"date":"2020-11-27T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2020-11-27T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:40:24","slug":"unpivoting-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/unpivoting-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpivoting Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For Power BI version 2.76.5678.782 (December 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unpivoting data is a problem we can encounter when shaping data. Data is often distorted in one way or another. One daunting problem is data that&#8217;s already pivoted, like in the example below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1208\" height=\"172\" class=\"wp-image-1827\" src=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-4.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-4.png 1208w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-4-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-4-1024x146.png 1024w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-4-768x109.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We always want to get our data to tabular form, like in the example below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"403\" class=\"wp-image-1828\" src=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-5.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-5.png 609w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-5-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While unpivoting data in Excel can be trying task even for experienced use, Power Query makes unpivoting data easy with one-click solution.<\/p>\n<h1>Unpivoting: example<\/h1>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at unpivoting of the table below. We take the next steps.<\/p>\n<p>Select the column that will stay in it&#8217;s place. In this example it&#8217;s column <strong>Platform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1208\" height=\"172\" class=\"wp-image-1829\" src=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-6.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-6.png 1208w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-6-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-6-1024x146.png 1024w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-6-768x109.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Transform &gt; Unpivot Columns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"124\" class=\"wp-image-1830\" src=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-7.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We get unpivoted table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"355\" class=\"wp-image-1831\" src=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-8.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-8.png 606w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-8-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We edit the table: we move date field to the left, change data type to date and rename it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"403\" class=\"wp-image-1832\" src=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-9.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-9.png 609w, https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/word-image-9-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Power BI version 2.76.5678.782 (December 2019). Unpivoting data is a problem we can encounter when shaping data. Data is often distorted in one way or another. One daunting problem is data that&#8217;s already pivoted, like in the example below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic","tag-power-query"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unpivoting Data - Bi Unija<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bi.unija.com\/en\/unpivoting-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unpivoting Data - Bi Unija\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For Power BI version 2.76.5678.782 (December 2019). 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