(Livestream Replay) Starting your journey with Power BI - with Gaston Cruz

In this session we are going to cover how to start your journey with Power BI:

• Learning (where? Courses? Learning paths?) // How we started?

• Switching careers // (In my case from financial background)

• Community engagements // User Groups (Global) – Conferences – Meetups – Livestreams -- Options within the Power BI framework (Admin, Visualization, Dev, Modeling, Automation) // A little bit of personas/teams involved in an Enterprise Deployment with Power BI

• Tools // Dax-Studio / Vertipaq Analyzer / Tabular Editor / PowerBIHelper / Documenter & more…

• What’s next… (Dataplatform framework / PowerPlatform apps / AI)

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(Livestream Replay) Driving a Data Culture with Power BI - with Tommy Puglia

There are many buzz words around Power BI Adoption, and none are as hard to measure as Data Culture. What does it mean to first have a data culture, but more importantly what does it mean to do the right things to strive for a healthy data culture?

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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.

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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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(Livestream Replay) The Skills Your Power BI Team Needs to Succeed - with Ed Hansberry

What does it mean to implement Power BI in your organization? Who is on the Power BI Team, and what skills do they need? This goes beyond report authoring. It is an organizational initiative!

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My background is as a CPA and have spent most of my career in financial and accounting related positions. I am an experienced Controller with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Skilled in Budgeting, Operations Management, Consumer Products, Business Development, and Strategic Planning. I have a Microsoft Certification using Power BI (MCSA BI Reporting), and am technically proficient with in Microsoft Power BI tools using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), data modeling, Power Query/M Language, Power Pivot, DAX Studio, and Microsoft Excel. Strong accounting professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Accounting and Business/Management from Lipscomb University.

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