From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)

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Connecting to a PDF file

Connecting to a PDF file

From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)

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Connecting to a PDF file

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- [Instructor] PDF files format reports and datasets in an easy-to-read and share format but this very formatting can make it difficult to extract data from them. Let's obtain weather data for the LinkedIn Learning studios just outside Santa Barbara, California from the NOAA CDO web portal. Here we select the Weather Observation Type as a daily summary which will provide precipitation and temperature information. We select the date range that's already in the box. Next, we go ahead and make sure that we search for Stations and now we're going to go ahead and just type in Santa Barbara. When we hit Search, we go to another screen. Let's just go ahead and select this first airport option which we add to the cart. We then go to the cart and view the items. We select the Format Output as PDF. We already see the date range and the airport in Santa Barbara that we want to select to. Continue. Then we enter our…

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