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(Livestream Replay) Design Thought Process for Power BI Reporting - with Miguel Myers

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Visualizing large amounts of data can be overwhelming and frustrating regardless of one’s skill level, so imagine how frustrated and exhausted the viewing audience can become when trying to interpret complex visuals. In the absence of strategic thinking, Reports can become so overloaded that designs are easily rejected by wearisome and disappointed customers. It's imperative that designers embrace and implement Strategic Thinking to extrapolate critical factors to be presented in the creation of a successful report. By embracing a strategic methodology, we’re able to find solutions to problems, and even alternative solutions that may have gone unnoticed initially. This session will provide a more structured approach and help you to realize your own strategic thought processes that are comfortable for you through the way I personally take.

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Miguel Myers is a Senior Program Manager on the legendary Power BI Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. Miguel is highly regarded and accomplished Business Intelligence Professional, Graphic Designer, and Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of success in the business analytics industry, skilled in Business Intelligence, Data Science, Marketing, and Graphic Design. His role at Microsoft is to evangelize the use and best practices of Report Design and Data Visualizations in Power BI.

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(Livestream Replay) Deneb: Bringing the Vega Languages to Power BI Visuals! - with Daniel Marsh-Patrick

Vega and Vega-Lite are "visualization grammars" developed by the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab. They use a declarative, JSON-based format and this can also be used to build a range of bespoke visual designs with significantly less effort than coding from scratch.

Deneb is a Power BI visual that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them. We'll spend some time exploring the tool, showing you how to get started, and creating some simple examples.

If you like the visual please leave a review on AppSource as it helps support Daniel and the development of Deneb!

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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 August 12, 2021 and filed under Custom Visuals, Livestreams, External Tools.

(Livestream Replay) The Evolution and Integration of Power Query - with Miguel Llopis

Join us as Miguel and I discuss a variety of topics related to Power Query. As the Lead Program Manager for Power Query, M, and Dataflows at Microsoft Miguel has invaluable insight into the current and future trends of the product. Topics will include: platforms within Microsoft where Power Query is implemented, feature parity between Power BI (Desktop vs. Service), the evolution of query folding, and more!

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Miguel is the Program Manager Lead for Power Query, M and Dataflows at Microsoft.

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(Livestream Replay) Implementing Proper Version Control in Power BI! - with Steve Campbell

In this session, we will explore different techniques for version control in Power BI. This is an important concept in software development, often overlooked by business users. We will explore options for different size models, thin report files and advantages of different techniques.

  • 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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For my job, I lead the Power BI team for Cognizant MBG in the UK. Outside of this I love to blog on PowerBI.tips, present at conferences and webinars, and co-run the Brew City Power Platform user group. I love learning about data and sharing what I’ve learned. I also used to teach Power BI at the university in Milwaukee. I’m a Data Platform MVP and an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) – it’s a fantastic community and I recommend being a part of it!

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