(Livestream Replay) Certifying Power BI Content! - with Melissa Coates

ABSTRACT 📝

Join Reid and Melissa for an interactive discussion about certifying content in the Power BI service. It’s not as easy and straightforward as it might initially seem! We’ll discuss aspects such as:

• What should the certified endorsement really signify?

• What should we be doing before setting that endorsement?

• How does certified content differ from promoted?

• Who should be allowed to certify content?

GUEST BIO 👤

Melissa Coates is the owner of Coates Data Strategies. Her current professional focus is on Power BI governance, deployment, security, and administration. Melissa is the creator of the comprehensive "Power BI Deployment and Governance" online course. Melissa is the principal author of Microsoft's "Power BI Adoption Roadmap" and "Power BI Implementation Planning" guidance. She is big supporter of the technical community, and has been a Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 2013. When Melissa steps away from the keyboard, you can probably find her hanging out with her dog, paddle boarding, or playing in the garden.

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(Livestream Replay) Quick Insights & Story Telling Utilizing InfoRiver Advanced Charts - with Gopal

With Inforiver Charts all users (even end-users) can build, visualize and share actionable insights in minutes using the No-Code toolbar User Experience(UX).  Inforiver follows standards and best practices automatically for you to build high-quality visualizations without the need of any coding or DAX scripting.  

The key use cases that can be achieved using Inforiver Charts are:  

• Exploratory Analysis with comprehensive drill-down, drill-up and drill-across navigation across dimensions. Works in small multiple mode as well. 

• Story Telling and Data-point Annotations to tell compelling stories using dynamic data-level comments. Supports several options such as small-multiples, vertical text orientation, dynamic data tags, and more. 

• Multi-Measure Charts to build advanced visual layouts with your comparative and non-comparative measures with the right visualizations in 1-click. Automatic variances for Prior Year, Budget and Forecast data are calculated. 

• Advanced Small Multiples / Trellis to Analyze trends across various data categories in 1-click with highly responsive layouts and context based titles, analytics and comments.  

• Small form factor (SFF) UX design allows usage of Inforiver Charts with applications across all devices including mobiles and tablets. It also maintains an optimal data-ink ratio for all types of visualizations.  

Inforiver Charts visual is also IBCS-certified and offers few flexibility and customizations on top of IBCS Standards with Inforiver theme. This allows you to communicate and convey actionable insights visually to all users in your teams and organization.  

Rich Feature set which includes many advanced features that are frequently requested in Power BI community.  

Some of the features are:  

• Measure-driven data labels 

• 1-click Variance analysis  

• Flexible Number Formatting  

• Highlight variances between any two data points 

• 100% stacked bar with column totals 

• Stacked waterfall chart 

• Gradient Line chart 

• Dynamic axis break 

• Scale bands  

…and more 

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(Livestream Replay) Insights Unlocked Using Conditional Formatting in Power BI - with Pragati Jain

ABSTRACT 📝

In this session, Pragati will be showing some conditional formatting tricks in Power BI, which will change the way the visuals look and imparts insights to the users using them in the reports. We will also see a few tips/tricks to keep in mind on a regular basis to enhance visual capabilities in Power BI using the concept of conditional formatting. This will be a complete Power BI demo with one slide only.

GUEST BIO 👤

Pragati Jain is working as a Senior Consultant at Avanade in the UK and works towards generating and delivering data insights to various customers. She holds a Master’s degree in Data Science and Analytics from Royal Holloway University of London. She is skilled in various tools and technologies like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Azure ML Studio, Azure Databricks, Pyspark, and SQL. She has been using Power BI for few years now and is recognized as a Superuser on the Microsoft Power BI Community. Outside work she enjoys photography, loves hiking, she is a trained Indian classical singer and has a passion for painting. She even has her Instagram page dedicated to painting.

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(Livestream Replay) Sensitivity Labels and the Microsoft Data Platform! - with Heidi Hastings

ABSTRACT 📝

Join Heidi Hastings and I as we dissect everything about sensitivity labels! Such as what they are, how they're used, why they're important, where to find them, and more! You'll also see what they look like in Power BI, Purview, Excel, Azure SQL, and other locations!

GUEST BIO 👤

Heidi Hasting is a Business Intelligence professional and former software developer with over eight years experience in Microsoft products. She is an ALM/DLM enthusiast and Azure DevOps fan and co-founder and organizer of the Adelaide Power BI User Group. Heidi is a regular attendee at tech events including Azure Bootcamps, DevOps days, SQLSaturdays, Difinity and PASS Summit.

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