Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on February 5th (Power BI – Time to Git CI/CD)
Atlanta BI fans, please join us for the next meeting on Monday, February 5th at 6:30 PM ET. Note that this will be an online meeting via MS Teams and non-Atlanta BI fans are also welcome. Kristyna Hughes (Senior Consultant with 3Cloud) will show us how to implement source control for Power BI reports. Your humble correspondent will help you catch up on Microsoft BI latest. For more details and sign up, visit our group page.
Presentation: Power BI – Time to Git CI/CD
Delivery: Online
Date: February 5
Time: 18:30 – 20:30 ET
Level: Intermediate
Food: NA
Agenda:
18:15-18:30 Registration and networking
18:30-19:00 Organizer and sponsor time (events, Microsoft BI latest, sponsor marketing)
19:00-20:15 Main presentation
20:15-20:30 Q&A
Overview: As report developers, requirements for reports are constantly evolving which leads the reports themselves to change. However, inevitably, there will be one party who uses that report and was unaware of changes. They may request a list of changes or want that report rolled back to a previous version. With git, we can provide a list of changes and roll back to any version requested.
Taking a page from application developers, Power BI developers can now develop reports in branches and merge changes using git and Azure DevOps! If half those words are new to you and you’re looking for a better way to manage version history, come to this session! We will go through the basics of git including what branches are, how to use them, and some best practices while working with git. Git has a few tricks that we will go through as well like fetching a branch, in-line comparisons, and pulling to avoid merge conflicts. Don’t worry, we will also touch on how to resolve merge conflicts as well as how to avoid them. After the basics of git, we’ll walk through how to use git with Power BI workspaces and Azure DevOps.
Speaker: Kristyna Hughes is a senior data & analytics consultant at 3Cloud. Her experience includes implementing and managing enterprise-level Power BI instance, training teams on reporting best practices, and building templates for scalable analytics. Passionate about participating and growing the data community, she enjoys co-writing on Data on Wheels (dataonwheels.com) and has co-founded Data on Rails (dataonrailsblog.com). She also is a co-organizer for Lexington Data Technology Group and co-host of Wednesday Lunch & Learns on YouTube with Chris Wagner.
