From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Connecting to zipped binary data
From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)
Connecting to zipped binary data
- Binary functions allow us to read binary numbers and translate them into usable data. We can obtain NOAA data for an entire year through the zipped files on their website in the FTP section. On the website, we scroll down to the bottom of the list, and select the data for the most recent year to download. Click on it so it downloads to your desktop. You can access these files in your 0706 exercise files. We can see that the file extension is a .gz, a type of zipped file using the gzip compression utility, which we cannot typically open using native applications on our computers. In the NOAA station Power BI file, we select to add a new data source. We choose the text connector initially, and we select All Files, and go to our most recent exercise files. We choose the 2019.csv.gz data file. We see the actual file name and the extension tie, but we cannot directly access the data in the file. In the formula bar at the top…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.