Session description It is rare to find a Power BI developer who has a background in C#, but C# and other programming languages offer a lot of automation and scalability that is lacking in Power BI. XMLA is a powerful tool available in the online Power BI service that allows report developers to connect to… Read More »Power BI Meets Programmability – TOM, XMLA, and C#
Session description After a successful webinar series on Data Modeling with Power BI, Jeroen ter Heerdt (Program Manager in the Power BI team at Microsoft) and Marc Lelijveld (Data & Analytics solution architect & Most Valuable Professional) will bring all their best practices on Data Modeling with Power BI together in this 3 hour deep-dive… Read More »Level-up your Power BI data modeling skills
Session description Designing dashboards can be split into three layers: the overall structure, a dashboard page/ tab, and each individual graph. During this 3 hours session we have an hour for each layer. Starting at the overall structure, we will work on building a wireframe to structure the information, getting to know our audience and… Read More »The three layers of design for user-centered dashboards
Session description Pandora is a world's famous jewellery brand. The company employs 27,000 people worldwide and sells its products in more than 100 countries through 6,400 points of sale, including more than 2,400 concept stores. In 2020, Pandora decided to adopt Power BI as the universal BI tool implemented throughout the company, and started a… Read More »The secret recipe for global implementation of Power BI
Session description This 3-hour deep dive workshop focusses on the newly announced innovative Tabular Model Definition Language feature in pbi-tools and Tabular Editor and what it means for your model development projects. In a hands-on session you will learn and practice the Tabular Model Definition Language syntax and how it relates to the Tabular Object… Read More »Tabular Model Definition Language and Source Control
Session description A friend once explained her experience with a "data driven company" like this: "we collect millions of points of data every day, we clean it, we analyze it, we make it actionable - and then we implement whatever happens to be the mood of the day". Power BI is one of the most… Read More »Making Data Matter – Combining Data, Visual Storytelling and Presentation Skills for Maximum Impact
Session description The purpose of this 3-hour fast-paced workshop is to apply proven, enterprise-scale best practices for Business Intelligence solutions with Power BI. With focus on foundational and iterative model design, CI/CD, future growth, and scalability; the workshop covers data acquisition, query design, data modeling, and visual reporting. Students will learn to develop solutions for… Read More »Power BI Enterprise Solutions Workshop
Description of session You have heard that a star schemas are optimal for Power BI. You have seen the dramatic effect of compression on your data models. And the storage engine makes parallelism happen? Or something like that! Have you ever wondered why these things are true and how they work? Or how you can… Read More »Optimizing models
Session description Visuals are a tool that helps us get information out of data. But they have a lot of settings that reduce readability and clarity. Therefore, we must focus on the form we want to convey individual information and what additional information we will display. Native settings + Field Parameters + Calculation Groups +… Read More »Hack the visuals