(Livestream Replay) Starting your journey with Power BI - with Gaston Cruz

In this session we are going to cover how to start your journey with Power BI:

• Learning (where? Courses? Learning paths?) // How we started?

• Switching careers // (In my case from financial background)

• Community engagements // User Groups (Global) – Conferences – Meetups – Livestreams -- Options within the Power BI framework (Admin, Visualization, Dev, Modeling, Automation) // A little bit of personas/teams involved in an Enterprise Deployment with Power BI

• Tools // Dax-Studio / Vertipaq Analyzer / Tabular Editor / PowerBIHelper / Documenter & more…

• What’s next… (Dataplatform framework / PowerPlatform apps / AI)

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(Livestream Replay) Faster Reporting & Insights Using InfoRiver - with Matt Allington

Matt Allington and I will breakdown the numerous features in the InfoRiver visual that lets you get to fast insights and analytics using this custom visual. Join us as we use our unique industry backgrounds to provide perspectives on how InfoRiver can be a smooth transition for Excel users to Power BI. We'll also chat about how developers can benefit from specific features such as: Visual Formulas, Excel-like Formatting, Commenting, and Analysis capabilities.

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Matt Allington is the owner and principal consultant at Excelerator BI. Matt offers services in 3 main areas: Kickstart Power BI in your organization, training and consulting. Matt Allington is a career expert in Power BI training and has 30+ years experience in using data to deliver business value. Matt is a Microsoft MVP that specializes in Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query. As a Power BI consultant, Matt can help individuals, business units and companies be more productive and get more value from current and new data. With the revolution in Self Service, Personal and Team based Business Intelligence, the time has never been better to get value from data without having to do a full blown Enterprise BI project.

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(Livestream Replay) The Nuances of Creating Quality Written & Video Content - with SQLBI

Join Marco, Alberto, and Reid as they reveal their secrets behind delivering quality and digestible content. Alberto and Marco have delivered a plethora of books, articles, courses, and videos for over a decade. While Reid cut his teeth many years back on much of the content released by SQLBI, he has now released over 150 videos now on YouTube, written numerous blogs, and authored multiple Power BI courses. Between the three of them they’ll share valuable insights on their process for creating educational material across various mediums and what it means to infuse passion into content.

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Alberto and Marco have written several books about Power BI, Analysis Service, and Power Pivot. They teach DAX and Tabular modeling, publish articles and videos on sqlbi.com, and regularly speak at international conferences and community events.

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(Livestream Replay) Deploying Reports with PBI-Tools - with Mathias Thierbach

PBI-Tools is an open-source project bringing source control capabilities to Power BI developers. The days of black-box .pbix files are over, and Power BI projects can now be run with established engineering practices such as: change control, branches, and CI/CD pipelines. In November, PBI-Tools added a new deployment feature for Power BI reports, based on declarative deployment manifests (also held in source control). You'll understand the basics of PBI-Tools, and see the new 'deploy' action in practice, both on the desktop as well as in Azure DevOps.

GUEST BIO 👤

In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, filling this gap in tooling. Today, leading a growing data management team at YouGov, he experiences the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing those practices to the wider Power BI community now.

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