Use Excel, PowerQuery and Yahoo Finance to manage your Portfolio

There are some new and powerful Business Intelligence options available to all of us, from scalable cloud platforms to the Excel on the desktop. So its a good time to demonstrate some of them and show where BI and Application Development meet.

Power Query and the language M have been quietly making their way into the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack and in particular Excel for some time. The set of “Power” components (Power Query, Power Pivot and Power BI) all sound a bit like the marketing guys won the naming battle again and don’t really help explain the technology nor where they fit so I avoided it for a long time.… [Keep reading] “Use Excel, PowerQuery and Yahoo Finance to manage your Portfolio”