May was a hectic month but June is even busier… I'm presenting and sponsoring the tomorrow's Power BI Group meeting and teaching a class on Tue and Wed. Then, on Saturday Guys in the Cube and I are kicking off the Power BI Palooza event at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta at 8:30 AM. I'm presenting "10 Ways to Empower Your BI Strategy with Power…
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MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on June 3, Monday, at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. I'll show you how to bridge the analytical and developer worlds by integrating Power BI with PowerApps. Eric Flamm will demonstrate SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio. Prologika will sponsor the event. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget to…
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SQL Saturday Atlanta next Saturday might break the attendance record with over 900+ people registered! Kudos to the organizers. It's not easy to organize an event of this size with a modest budget. I'll present "What's New for BI in SQL Server 2019" at 1 PM. "SQL Server 2019 delivers important data analytics features and enhancements. Join this session to discover what BI features are…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on May 6, Monday, at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. Patrick LeBlanc, a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, will show us how to integrate Power BI and Flow for geospatial analytics. I'll showcase Power BI Report Builder. TEKSystems will sponsor the event. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on April 1, Monday, at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. Considering all the the momentum behind machine learning, the main presentation will be "Microsoft Citizen Data Science with Power BI" by Stacey Jones, a Principal Data Solution Architect at Microsoft. I'll do a brief overview of the brand new Modeling…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on March 4th, Monday, at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. The main presentation will be "Power BI Architecture" by Paco Gonzalez from SolidQ. Eric Flamm will do us Prototypes with Pizza on configuring a Power BI visual for mobile layout. SolidQ will sponsor the event. For more details, visit our group…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on February 4th, Monday at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. The main presentation will be "Azure Data Lake for First Time Swimmers" by Samara Soucy from Innovative Architects. Julies Smith will do us Prototypes with Pizza on "Python Fuzzy Wuzzy for Master Data Identity Mapping". Innovative Architects will sponsor…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on January 7th, Monday at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. The main presentation will be "Predictive Analytics with Power BI". I'll walk you through the existing Power BI features for predictive analytics. Mark Tabladillo will show you exiting AI features that are coming up soon. CDATA will sponsor the…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on December 3th, Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. I will discuss Power BI dataflows. A3 will sponsor the event. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget to RSVP (use the RSVP survey on the main page) if you're planning to attend. Presentation: Understanding Power BI…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on October 30th, Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. Neal Waterstreet will tackle the important and pervasive issue of bad data quality. ZAP BI will sponsor the event. And your humble correspondent will introduce you to Power BI Home and data profiling. For more details, visit our…
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