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(Livestream Replay) Driving a Data Culture with Power BI - with Tommy Puglia

There are many buzz words around Power BI Adoption, and none are as hard to measure as Data Culture. What does it mean to first have a data culture, but more importantly what does it mean to do the right things to strive for a healthy data culture?

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(Livestream Replay) When is Something a Best Practice? It Depends! - with Ruth / Curbal

It's the answer with a million implications...it depends! Join Ruth and I as we dissect many best practices where we consider the answer to be...it depends! There are often exceptions to many practices and "rules" and we wanted to talk through many modeling, reporting, and design practices where these considerations should be taken into account.

RUTH’S BIO 📄

Ruth Pozuelo Martinez is the MD and owner of Curbal AB, a BI consultant company based in Sweden. Ruth has a Mechanical Engineering degree by the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a Aeronautical Engineering degree by the University of Wales. Ruth is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP mainly for her contributions to the Power BI community. She publishes weekly videos on her YouTube channel where she has more than 80k followers (at the time of writing). She also contributes on her own company blog Curbal as well as Microsoft Power BI community.

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Posted on November 11, 2021 and filed under Power BI, Livestreams, Topics & Discussion.

(Livestream Replay) NEW FEATURE for Power BI Side Tools - a DAX Template Generator for Your Reports - with Didier Terrien

Store your favorite DAX expressions into repositories. Share some of them with colleagues or with the community. Find new ones shared by experts and adapt them to your own model in less than one minute. You may even format your DAX, create expressions into your model, and then debug it with the integrated debugger.

DIDIER’S BIO 📄

I worked with data for almost 4 decades in various environments as a developer and project manager. Heavy user of Excel for a long time, I try to move data as much as possible to Power BI since it appeared on the market. Working now as the Group Data Quality Officer in Trescal, my skills cover business and IT areas for the benefit of productivity and quality.

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Posted on November 9, 2021 and filed under External Tools, Power BI, Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, Intermediate.

(Livestream Replay) Explaining the XMLA Endpoint and its Use Cases

Power BI is merging with Azure Analysis Services! Microsoft is now opening up and giving us full access to the powerful Analysis Services engine in the Power BI service. This gives us semantic models that serve as the single source of truth for the whole enterprise. Manage the models (datasets) with the tools you know and love and give read and write-access to a variety of Microsoft and third-party client tools.

GUEST BIO 📄

Just Blindbaek is an independent BI consultant with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and Power BI. Founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk) and Power BI UG Denmark (PowerBI.dk).

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