(Livestream Replay) Create your own Power Query Connector for Power BI & Dataflows - with Miguel Angel Escobar

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Ever wanted to connect to a data source that is not listed in Power BI or Dataflows? This session will show you everything that you need to know to better understand the landscape of connectors in Power BI and Dataflows, how to connect to sources not listed in Power BI and when / how to create your own connector for Power BI and Dataflows.

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Born and raised in Panama City, Panama. I’m currently a Program Manager at Microsoft for the product that changed my life: Power Query. Before this Program Manager role, I was the Principal Consultant and President of my own company based in Panama called Powered Solutions which was a Microsoft Gold Partner in Data Analytics for many years. I'm a former Microsoft MVP, MCP, MCT and author of books related to Data Prep and Data Analytics.

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(Livestream Replay) Level Up your Power BI Game with Field Parameters! - with Nikola Ilic

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Game changer! How many times you’ve heard this when a new feature hit the Power BI ecosystem? But, not all of these features lived up to these high expectations. Field parameters don’t belong to that group, as they truly changed the way we’re building our Power BI solutions.

In this demo-packed session, you’ll learn what are Field parameters, in which scenarios they’ll become your “best friend”, and how to solve some of the most common challenges related to Field parameters implementation (who said, the selected value of the field parameter and conditional formatting).

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Power BI and data addict, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Pluralsight Author, blogger, speaker...Interested in everything related to data - always eager to extract valuable info from raw data in the most effective way. Multi-year experience working with (predominantly) Microsoft Data Platform (SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and Power BI). Father of 2 and true football (and Barca) fan!

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI Workout Wednesday LIVE! - with Shannon Lindsay

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Join us to complete a Workout Wednesday challenge together! We’ll review the challenge, provide all the resources you need, and build a report live with you! Bring any questions you may have for us as we build!

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Shannon is a data and analytics witch with a background in global public health. She’s currently casting spells at Microsoft, working to ensure Power BI is accessible to all users. Shannon spends as much time as possible in the data community, participating in user groups and working with the fabulous Workout Wednesday team.

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(Livestream Replay) Fabric Lakehouse Hell...or Glory?!? - with Tom Martens

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During the last months, we have heard a lot about Microsoft Fabric and how it will change the analytical landscape. How it will help solve the most demanding analytical challenges.

It has become simple to create a lakehouse in seconds, or two, or a hundred. How will we organize our Fabric workspace? Do we have one workspace with three lakehouses (bronze, silver, and gold), or do we have three workspaces? Next to the number of workspaces, what about the capacities? Will a solution “own” multiple capacities, or only one or two, and share compute power with other teams, utilizing the idea of the share economy? Here, I want to share some early thoughts, including aspects of data architectures like data mesh and data fabric.

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Thomas "Tom" Martens has been awarded as an MSFT Data Platform MVP and works as Solution Architect at Munich Re. For 20+ years, Tom delivers Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Analytics solutions. His current interest is in data visualization and applying analytical methods to small and large amounts of data, next to providing the Power BI Platform to users for tackling analytical challenges. Tom is a regular speaker at international conferences and user meetings. Tom is the co-author of the book "Pro DAX with Power BI."

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