If you'd like to follow along with our hands-on Power BI tutorial, you can download the data files below.
The data originally come from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics website.
The zipfile includes these files:
- 2015_06_ONTIME.csv, 2015_07_ONTIME.csv, 2015_08_ONTIME.csv, 2015_09_ONTIME.csv -- Files with U.S. flight on-time data for June, July, August and September 2015. Use these files if you'd like to try the data-wrangling portion of our Power BI tutorial.
- airlinecodes.csv -- A file with airline codes and airline names, also used in the hands-on tutorial.
- L_CARRIER_HISTORY.csv -- The original Dept. of Transportation data file of airlines and codes, including historical and other data. This is not used in the tutorial, but is here in case you'd like to wrangle that data yourself.
- summer15delays.csv -- Use this file if you don't want to go through the data-wrangling portion of the tutorial and would like to start right away with data visualization in Power BI.
- prepAirlineDelayData.R -- For the R users among you, this is the file used to create the summer15.delays.csv and airlinecodes.csv files from the original airline files. As I mentioned in the tutorial, I generally prefer to do my data wrangling in R and then start with reporting and interactive visualizations within Power BI. Note that this script assumes all the data files are in a subdirectory of your working directory called data. Feel free to modify as you see fit.
Download the data in two zipped files at the links below: