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(Livestream Replay) Power Query, What is it Good For? Absolutely Everything! - Gil Raviv

Join Gil Raviv and me to discuss why Power Query is so important component in Power BI and the bigger Microsoft ecosystem and the way it can boost your professional growth and impact to your organization.

GIL’S BIO 📄

Gil Raviv is the global lead of Analytics Experience practice at Avanade, a Power BI Blogger (Data Chant), an Author, a Microsoft MVP, and one of the few first Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solution Architects. As a former Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel Product team in Israel, Gil led the design and integration of Power Query as the next-generation Get-Data and data-wrangling technology in Excel 2016, and he has been devoted M practitioner ever since (M=Power Query formula language).

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Posted on March 26, 2021 by Reid Havens and filed under Power Query, Livestreams, Topics & Discussion.

(Livestream Replay) New Course (Designing Impactful Reports) Discussion and Q&A

Join me as I discuss the newly released course on Designing Impactful Reports in Power BI. Matt Allington will also be joining me as he's one of three partner's for the training website Skillwave, where my course is being hosted. Where we'll also discuss some of the other awesome courses provided there by: Ken Puls, Miguel Escobar, Matt Allington, and more!

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Posted on March 24, 2021 by Reid Havens and filed under Power BI, Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, Training & Teaching and tagged Courses Interface & Design.

(Livestream Replay) Microsoft Power Platform Integration - Chuck Sterling

Hang out with us as Charles (Chuck) Sterling and I talk about the Power Platform!

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While you are probably already familiar with Power BI, Power Apps and Microsoft Flow; you may not know that Microsoft is bringing these tools together into a unified brand called: the Microsoft Power platform. In this session Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Charles Sterling will give an all demo introduction to these products AND how you can use these products together with other offerings such as their new database engine called Common Data Service for Apps and Microsoft Forms to create very sophisticated “no code/low code” solutions for Business Analysts and citizen developers.

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Posted on March 19, 2021 by Reid Havens and filed under Power Apps, Power Platform, Livestreams, Topics & Discussion and tagged Power Apps.

(Livestream Replay) Intelligent Error Handing within Power Query - with Reza Rad

Hang out with us as Reza Rad and I talk about error handling within Power Query in Power BI Desktop (and also in Dataflows). We will discuss the situations when the error happens...but nothing is captured for troubleshooting! We will discuss and also go through demos of how to handle errors and create a troubleshooting report.

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Posted on March 12, 2021 by Reid Havens and filed under Livestreams, Performance/Optimization, Power Query, Topics & Discussion and tagged Power Query Dataflows Templates.