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(Livestream Replay) Top Secrets of Power BI Report Design! - with Mara Pereira

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A lot of the focus on Power BI report development goes to the backend (transforming and cleaning data, data modelling, DAX…). However, most people that will use your reports will not be able to see that backend, they will be interacting with the frontend. So, a question came up: why are most Power BI Developers not putting a lot of effort into the frontend of their reports? The answer was surprising: developers didn’t feel they were very creative, they struggled to understand what good/bad looks like. During this session, we will be discussing how to approach frontend development in Power BI, and we will be learning about some of the tricks that you can use to make sure your designs always look great! You will learn how you can get ideas for creativity, how to apply those ideas, and no, you don’t need to be a Picasso!

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Mara is the Founder of Data Pears. You might know her from her blog and YouTube channel, where she regularly posts blogs and videos about Power BI, Data Visualization and Data Analytics. Mara loves everything around data visualization and report design and her main goal is to change the world of reporting, one report at a time. She believes that effective reporting solutions are more than just data and charts, they are a beautiful combination of data, insights, and user experience. After working with Power BI for 6+ years, she decided to embark on an entrepreneurship journey, with the focus on guiding enterprise customers and individuals on their Power BI journeys. Before that, she was a Cloud Solutions Architect for Data & AI at Microsoft.

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(Livestream Replay) Discover a Powerful Learning Framework to Elevate Your Power BI Career! - with (Steve Campbell)

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Learning Power BI can be daunting. Many users struggle to know which areas to focus their attention. Even for a seasoned developer, knowing which skills to build on to advance in your career can be challenging.

Should you become a specialist, or try and spread your skills?

In this session, we will run through an end-to-end skills map to progress your Power BI career to the next level, no matter where you are currently. We will lay out a framework to help know how to elevate you Power BI career!

  • What is git, DevOps and version control?

  • Learn how multiple users can work on shared files

  • Learn how to safely edit files, see versions and changes or roll back changes if something goes wrong

  • Explore Microsoft recommendations, different options and their pros, cons and price

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I am a Data Platform MVP, PowerBI.tips author, and run the EMEA Data Analytics Capability for Cognizant. My team of analysts, developers, and architects deliver successful data projects to some of the largest companies. I develop Power BI training and learning plans and love to help people advance their skills to take the next career step. I am also a Power BI and Excel trainer.

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Posted on November 11, 2022 and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, Industry.

(Livestream Replay) Best Practices for Report Design & DAX in Power BI - with Gustaw Dudek

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Microsoft Power BI tool consistently provides new features and capabilities to transform the raw data into meaningful insights. Effective UI/UX solutions can be driven by various different functionalities such as, but not limited to: built-in visual-related formatting options (including conditional formatting). In particular contexts, those options can be enhanced ever further by incorporating strategic DAX techniques. By using a combination of the following approaches, including design practices and DAX solutions, it is possible to create reports and dashboards that tell compelling stories from our data in a highly interactive way!

This presentation will demonstrate several practical design & DAX techniques that helps increase report transparency and user experience through the application of certain functionalities, interactions and formatting options.

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Gustaw Dudek works as the Head of Business Intelligence at the Polish Company (Enterium). He has multiple years of experience in the field of data analytics and business intelligence. In addition he's one of the resident Enterprise DNA Experts, having created multiple showcase reports for various EDNA contests. Despite of designing most of showcase reports in dark-mode, Gustaw is a huge advocate of IBCS chart standards and really enjoys exploring both the art and science of report design.

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(Livestream Replay) PowerShell Hacks for Power BI - with James Bartlett

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There's never a dull moment in the life of a Power BI Administrator. In order to protect our time and sanity, it's important to automate as many of our usual tasks and processes as possible. Additionally, since the top priority of the Power BI development team is the end user experience, there are many edge cases and "power user" type activities that cannot yet be accomplished using only Power BI Desktop and the Power BI web service.

Fortunately, Microsoft has provided two priceless tools that allow us to automate and add functionality to Power BI: The Power BI REST APIs and the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module for PowerShell. This presentation will demonstrate several techniques for harnessing these powerful tools to make your job as a Power BI Administrator less time-consuming and more fun!

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James D. Bartlett III is a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst and Power BI Administrator at Des Moines University in Iowa, USA. He started working in IT way back in 2002, while he was a student in the Business Administration program at Colorado State University. After graduation, James dabbled in banking, real estate, healthcare, and even had a short stint as a resident DJ at Denver's top nightclub, before finally stumbling upon his true calling in the Business Intelligence field in 2018. James is a blogger and co-developer of the Business Ops app on PowerBI.tips, co-leader of the Iowa Power BI User Group, and recently completed his Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification. In his spare time, James enjoys longboarding, playing the guitar, and producing electronic music in his home studio.

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