(Livestream Replay) Fabric & Power BI: Awesome Use-Cases with DAX Query View - with Zoe Douglas

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Join us live as we dive into the world of Microsoft Fabric! In this session, Zoe will walk you through the process of creating semantic models using three powerful approaches: Direct Lake, Import, and DirectQuery (DQ). We'll explore how each of these methods can be utilized within Microsoft Fabric to build robust and scalable models tailored to your data needs.

But that's not all—once we've crafted these models, I'll demonstrate how you can leverage them to write efficient DAX queries using the DAX Query View. Whether you're new to Microsoft Fabric or looking to refine your skills, this demo will provide valuable insights and practical techniques you can apply to your projects.

Bring your questions and curiosity, and let's explore the possibilities together!

GUEST BIO (Zoey Douglas)👤

Zoe is a Product Manager at Microsoft working on Power BI in Microsoft Fabric with features such as DAX query view, Direct Lake, Model Explorer, and Copilot. Before coming to Microsoft I was a Power BI consultant and mentor, enjoying the Power BI community forum and taking on data challenges.

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(Livestream Replay) Creating Accessible Ops Data with Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric - with Will Thompson

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At Microsoft Build in May, we announced Real-Time Intelligence which brings our messaging, time-series analytics and real-time action systems together in Fabric. We’ll look at how these help data engineers and business analysts ingest, analyze, and take action on streaming and real-time data. I’ll demo Eventstreams, Eventhouse, Real-Time Dashboards, and Data Activator.

GUEST BIO (Will Thompson) 👤

Will is a self-confessed data geek, working his way through sysadmin and DBA roles before joining Microsoft. He spent 5 years helping customers in the UK implement and get value out of Microsoft’s BI solution. When an opportunity arose to move into product engineering in 2012, he jumped at it and took ownership of Power BI’s visual and modeling features. In 2022 he started running Product Management for Data Activator, a new product for monitoring and acting on changes in data.

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(Livestream Replay) Building an Analytics Team - with Reza Rad

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With all the activities and announcements in the recent few years, from the introduction of self-service analytics tools such as Power BI to the start of SAAS experiences such as Microsoft Fabric, Having a BI and Analytics team that can be on top of these technologies proves to be a hard job for the executive leadership team. Evolving the generative AI and Copilot also brings another aspect: do we need developers now as we did before?

Reza Rad shares his experience working with many BI and Analytics teams worldwide and offers suggestions on how to build the team, ensure they are upskilled, and follow the standards needed to ensure the best utilization of analytics in your organization.

This is not a technical session but a session for decision-makers and the executive team to harness analytics with the right decisions on their team.

GUEST BIO 👤

Reza Rad is a Microsoft Regional Director, an Author, Trainer, Speaker, and Consultant. He has a BSc in Computer engineering; he has more than 20 years of experience in data analysis, BI, databases, programming, and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for 14 continuous years (from 2011 till now) for his dedication to Microsoft BI. Reza is an active blogger and co-founder of RADACAD. Reza is also co-founder and co-organizer of the Difinity conference in New Zealand, the Power BI Summit (the biggest Power BI conference), and Data Insight Summit (Chicago, USA)

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(Livestream Replay) The Power of SVGs in Power BI - Kerry Kolosko

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Many of us learn through action and playfulness. This session will discuss how creating games with DAX and SVG can improve skills, increase knowledge and stimulate creative problem solving. We will take a look at SVG as a building block of data visualisation, how it can be applied, along with some unusual and practical use cases.

GUEST BIO (Kerry Kolosko)👤

Kerry Kolosko is a data visualization consultant hailing from Adelaide, South Australia. With several years experience in a variety of roles across a diverse range of industries, along with a background in psychology and a passion for the arts, Kerry brings a considered and creative edge to BI and data visualization. Also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and an avid blogger, she shares her designs and design tips at her website (link below).

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