Power Query uses a dedicated window called the Power Query Editor to facilitate and display data transformations. It needs shaping into a table that is suitable for your needs and that enables attractive reports and dashboards. A vase starts as a lump of clay that one shapes into something practical and beautiful.
Each of these operations is a data transformation. This process of applying transformations (and combining) to one or more sets of data is also called shaping data. For example, you can remove a column, change a data type, or filter rows. Transforming data means modifying it in some way to meet your data analysis requirements.
