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Case study, part 1

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Case study, part 1

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to tackle part one of the case study. This part of the case study is mainly going to focus on connecting to the data sources. Let's go ahead and connect to the course Excel file. Select Microsoft Excel, and then find where you downloaded the course files. Select Open. And one thing I want to point out here is that this one Excel sheet has three individual tabs. And for the purposes of this example, we're going to see them as three different data sources. Now, this is a little bit unrealistic, because if you're out in the business world, your data files are not going to be combined into one source, but I simply created this file so we wouldn't have to connect to a bunch of different files. What we're going to need to do is connect to this one individual Excel file three different times and then create a data blend to combine all of these tabs. So let's go ahead and select Item…

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