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

ABSTRACT 📝

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

GUEST BIO (Steve Campbell)👤

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 by Reid Havens and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, Industry and tagged Career Best Practices Job Skills.

Normalized Rank Ribbon Size Chart in Power BI

Learn how to upgrade your ribbon charts to prioritize the rank between categories. We'll use a bit of DAX magic mixed with some Calculation Group wizardry to achieve this result in Power BI Desktop. Tune in to learn more!

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Posted on November 8, 2022 by Reid Havens and filed under Intermediate, Advanced, External Tools, Visualizations and tagged Tabular Editor Ribbon Chart Visualizations Custom Visuals.

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

ABSTRACT 📝

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.

GUEST BIO 👤

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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Posted on November 4, 2022 by Reid Havens and filed under Livestreams, Beginner, Data Modeling, DAX, Design & Presentation, Topics & Discussion, Visualizations and tagged Best Practices Tips & Tricks Conditional Formatting Color & Formatting Interface & Design.

Creating a Countdown Visual using Deneb! (with Daniel Marsh-Patrick)

Video by: Reid Havens

Join Daniel Marsh-Patrick and I as we show you how to use the Deneb (Bespoke Visual Creator) to create two ways to display a countdown timer!

This is a follow-up video to a previous concept I created using the Play Axis slicer to rotate filter selections on a report tooltip page! With this concept you'll be able to track how long until the filter selection changes. Tune in to learn more!

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In addition to working on Deneb, Daniel contributes a number of free and open-source custom visuals to the Power BI Marketplace. He is extremely passionate about the Microsoft BI stack, particularly Power BI, and has been delivering Power BI solutions since 2014. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a Power BI Community Super User and regularly presents and blogs on a variety of Power BI subjects. Daniel is also a Principal Data Analyst with DiscoverEI, transforming environmental data into decisions.

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Posted on November 1, 2022 by Reid Havens and filed under Beginner, Power BI Features, Visualizations and tagged Tooltip Report Page Tooltips Custom Visuals Deneb.