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

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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

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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 and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, Industry.

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

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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.

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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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(Livestream Replay) PowerShell Hacks for Power BI - with James Bartlett

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There's never a dull moment in the life of a Power BI Administrator. In order to protect our time and sanity, it's important to automate as many of our usual tasks and processes as possible. Additionally, since the top priority of the Power BI development team is the end user experience, there are many edge cases and "power user" type activities that cannot yet be accomplished using only Power BI Desktop and the Power BI web service.

Fortunately, Microsoft has provided two priceless tools that allow us to automate and add functionality to Power BI: The Power BI REST APIs and the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module for PowerShell. This presentation will demonstrate several techniques for harnessing these powerful tools to make your job as a Power BI Administrator less time-consuming and more fun!

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James D. Bartlett III is a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst and Power BI Administrator at Des Moines University in Iowa, USA. He started working in IT way back in 2002, while he was a student in the Business Administration program at Colorado State University. After graduation, James dabbled in banking, real estate, healthcare, and even had a short stint as a resident DJ at Denver's top nightclub, before finally stumbling upon his true calling in the Business Intelligence field in 2018. James is a blogger and co-developer of the Business Ops app on PowerBI.tips, co-leader of the Iowa Power BI User Group, and recently completed his Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification. In his spare time, James enjoys longboarding, playing the guitar, and producing electronic music in his home studio.

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(Livestream Replay) Sharing Power BI Content with Multiple Audiences - with Tom Martens

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Supporting multiple audiences with Power BI Apps has finally arrived! Now it’s possible to provide content to different audiences from within a single app. An audience is a group of consumers, that now can be provided the information in need without creating multiple apps, duplicating data, and various versions of the same report. Solution design will become more simple, and information will travel faster. An introduction into this feature is provided, plus how it will be configured, and why Azure security groups are so important, and how this feature will impact our report design.

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Thomas "Tom" Martens has been awarded as an MSFT Data Platform MVP and works as Solution Architect at Munich Re (www.munichre.com). 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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