(Livestream Replay) The Cost of a Workaround in Power BI - with Injae Park

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From using SVGs or DENEB to create unique visuals, to page level security with RLS - workarounds are often necessary to overcome limitations and achieve desired functionalities in Power BI. However, these workarounds come with their own set of costs and considerations. This session discusses the key factors to help developers evaluate workarounds in Power BI, ensuring that the benefits outweigh the potential drawbacks.

To do this, we will explore some real-life workarounds in Power BI such as code-based Custom Visuals (DENEB, SVGs, HTML, Python), Page level security, and storing a custom PowerQuery library in Github. We will also dive into the trade-offs involved, including maintainability, impact on development, and technical debt.

GUEST BIO 👤

Injae Park is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP who combines his technical expertise with a passion for teaching by sharing his insights and practical tips through his YouTube channel @PowerBIPark. Injae's content ranges from beginner tutorials to advanced techniques, and as part of the Power BI Core Visual Representatives - he aims to bridge the MS Developer team with the Power BI community. His education in psychology and economics as well as his experience in consulting gives him a well-rounded perspective on the Power BI Developer experience, making his tutorials both engaging and accessible.

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(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.

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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.

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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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