(Livestream Replay) When is Something a Best Practice? It Depends! - with Ruth / Curbal

It's the answer with a million implications...it depends! Join Ruth and I as we dissect many best practices where we consider the answer to be...it depends! There are often exceptions to many practices and "rules" and we wanted to talk through many modeling, reporting, and design practices where these considerations should be taken into account.

RUTH’S BIO 📄

Ruth Pozuelo Martinez is the MD and owner of Curbal AB, a BI consultant company based in Sweden. Ruth has a Mechanical Engineering degree by the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a Aeronautical Engineering degree by the University of Wales. Ruth is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP mainly for her contributions to the Power BI community. She publishes weekly videos on her YouTube channel where she has more than 80k followers (at the time of writing). She also contributes on her own company blog Curbal as well as Microsoft Power BI community.

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(Livestream Replay) NEW FEATURE for Power BI Side Tools - a DAX Template Generator for Your Reports - with Didier Terrien

Store your favorite DAX expressions into repositories. Share some of them with colleagues or with the community. Find new ones shared by experts and adapt them to your own model in less than one minute. You may even format your DAX, create expressions into your model, and then debug it with the integrated debugger.

DIDIER’S BIO 📄

I worked with data for almost 4 decades in various environments as a developer and project manager. Heavy user of Excel for a long time, I try to move data as much as possible to Power BI since it appeared on the market. Working now as the Group Data Quality Officer in Trescal, my skills cover business and IT areas for the benefit of productivity and quality.

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(Livestream Replay) The Possibilities with Power BI & Excel Integration - with Chris Webb

Once you have built a Power BI dataset there are several options for displaying the data in it: classic Power BI reports, paginated reports and Excel. This session is all about the third option, Excel. You’ll learn how to connect Excel to a Power BI dataset and use PivotTables, Excel cube functions and the new Excel data types to build reports. You’ll also get a sneak preview of upcoming functionality which allows your Power BI-connected Excel reports to work in the browser and not just in Excel on the desktop.

GUEST BIO 👤

Chris Webb works on the Power BI CAT team at Microsoft. He has been using Microsoft BI tools for over 20 years, speaks regularly at user groups and conferences and has written several books on Analysis Services and Power Query.

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Adding Custom (SVG) Icon Hover Effects in a Single Button!

Video by: Reid Havens

With the addition of new button features and formatting options you can now implement custom (SVG) icons inside of a single button! Plus the custom icon can be unique for each button state (default, hover, and press), allowing for so many options to customize and design your buttons.

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