Power BI Custom Data Connectors - Your Data, Delivered!

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Your company uses Power BI for many projects and reporting needs, and often you're the one who finds, gets and cleans the data in order to make it useful. Wouldn't it be better if you could create a plugin for Power BI Desktop that would enable them to import the data, pre-cleaned and ready to use?   In this session I'll demonstrate how to use the Power Query SDK with Visual Studio to create a new plugin for Power BI Desktop. We'll cover Power Query basics and additional features available through Custom Data Connectors. Then I'll step through a simple end-to-end example that pulls data from an external web service. I’ll conclude with examples of more advanced connectors to provide inspiration for the data mashups you and your clients desire.   You'll leave this session with enough knowledge to create your first connector and solidify your superhero status in a data-hungry world.