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How to get a random sample of data with Power Query
Published on Aug 20, 2018 in Power Query

Today’s Power Monday trick is about Power Query. This is based on my experience of working with large volumes of data.
Today I have been building a hotel dashboard (more on this later). As part of the dashboard, I wanted to show a random sample of user reviews. Reviews database had quite a few rows, so I wanted to extract a randomized sample of 100 reviews and show them in the report. When you refresh the report (Data > Refresh), then a new set of reviews will be fetched and shown.
Let’s learn how to generate a random sample with Power Query in this article.
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How to select a random sample from all your data [trick]
Published on Jan 31, 2014 in Excel Howtos
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The other day, I got a text message (SMS) from one of our readers. It read,
So today, let us learn a very easy trick to select random sample from your data.
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