Neal Waterstreet

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group – March Meeting

by Leave a Comment

Topic: Power BI Architecture

Overview: Having the right architecture is key to the adoption of Power BI, and to make the most of your business intelligence solution. This session guides you through different Power BI architectures, such as Direct Query, Import, Connect Live, Composite Models, and Embedded. We will analyze different techniques in data refresh, incremental extraction, integration and collaboration to provide a quick overview of the different approaches available.

Speaker: SolidQ North America CEO and Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Paco Gonzalez has more than 15 years leading teams for high visibility solutions on Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Machine Learning. He is also a frequent speaker at large and small conferences. SQL Saturdays, TechEd’s, PASS BA, PASS Summit, DevWeek London, PAW Chicago and London, or Ignite.

Sponsor: The tools and technologies to manage information will constantly evolve, but the need for accurate and actionable information is timeless. SolidQ delivers services for Microsoft platforms that help you architect, integrate and optimize your use of data. The result? Our clients think bigger and move faster because we help them build the capacity and skills to interact with data in creative, collaborative ways that deliver new insights to the business. At SolidQ we measure our success by your satisfaction – and we guarantee it.

RSVP: http://atlantabi.pass.org/

When: Monday, March 4, 2019 6:30-8:30 ET

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA 30009 (https://binged.it/2KQLAPw)

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group – August Meeting

by Leave a Comment

Please note the new meeting location below.

When: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:30-8:30 ET

Topic: Advanced Analytics with Power BI

Overview: Power BI has become an increasingly important data analytics tool. This presentation focuses on the advanced analytics options currently available in Power BI. Attendees to this talk will see:

  • Microsoft’s perspective on advanced analytics development: the Team Data Science Process
  • What the general options are for advanced analytics on Azure
  • What the specific native advanced analytics capabilities are in Power BI
  • Some ideas on pairing Power BI with other technologies in advanced analytics architectures

See https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-expands-self-service-prep-for-big-data-unifies-modern-and-enterprise-bi/ for the latest announcements.

Speaker: Mark Tabladillo Ph.D. is a data scientist at Microsoft. His career has focused on industry application of advanced analytics, using a variety of analytics tools including SAS, SQL Server Analysis Services, Cortana Intelligence (including Microsoft R Server and Microsoft Machine Learning Services), R, and Python. He was a founding member of the Atlanta Microsoft BI User’s Group eight years ago, and this group’s second presenter.

Sponsor: Don’t settle for “one size fits all” training. Choose Accelebrate, and receive hands-on, engaging training precisely tailored to your goals and audience! Our on-site training offerings range from ASP.NET training and SharePoint training to courses on ColdFusion, Java™, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, and more.

RSVP at http://atlantabi.pass.org/

When: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:30-8:30 ET

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA 30009 (https://binged.it/2KQLAPw)

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group – July Meeting

by Leave a Comment

Please note the new meeting location below.

Topic: How to Create a Tailored End User Experience with Power BI

Speaker: Scott Fairbanks (CCG)

Summary: Power BI can deliver value in a variety of ways. With its ease of use, high levels of adoption, and growing market share, Power BI is being integrated into Analytics Solutions all over the world. In this session, attendees will see the power in leveraging Workspaces and Apps within Power BI to create a packaged, custom solution tailored to meet the needs of the consumer. With the end user experience in mind, this session will discuss the development process, design considerations, and the Power BI Service deployment of a collection of customized dashboards in a single App.

Discussion Points Include:

  • Power BI Desktop
  • Power BI Service
  • Workspaces
  • Apps
  • Visualizations
  • Interactions
  • Formatting
  • Mobile View
  • Row level security
  • Publishing
  • Consuming

RSVP at http://atlantabi.pass.org/

When: Monday, July 30, 2018 6:30 -8:30 ET

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA 30009 (https://binged.it/2KQLAPw)

Atlanta Modern Excel – May Meeting

by Leave a Comment

Topic: Time Intelligence and Date Tables in Power BI & Excel

Speaker: Marco Russo (MVP, Author, DAX Guru)

Summary: Every Power BI model has dates and the need of calculation over dates to aggregate and compare data, like Year-To-Date, Same-Period-Last-Year, Moving Average, and so on. Quick measures and DAX functions can help, but how do you manage holidays, working days, weeks based fiscal calendars and any non-standard calculation.

This session provides you the best practices to correctly shape a data model and to implement time intelligence calculations using both built-in DAX functions and custom DAX calculation for more complex and non-standard requirements.

RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Modern-Excel-User-Group/events/250622970/

When: Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA 30009 (https://binged.it/2KQLAPw)