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…
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If "XMLA" doesn't ring a bell especially in the context of Power BI, it stands for Extensible Markup Language for Analysis. Still puzzled? It's the protocol of Analysis Services (Multidimensional and Tabular). So, when an Excel or Power BI sends a query to a cube, it's encoded according the XMLA specification (an XML-based format). And, the XMLA endpoint is the web service endpoint that Analysis…
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…
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In my previous "First Look at the New Power BI Integration with Azure ML" blog, I showed you how Power BI will make it very easy to integrate it with Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive Services. Data scientists today have plenty of options to create predictive models but all of them have one thing in common: expertise in data science and statistics. The promise of…
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…
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The 2019 Gartner Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms is out and Microsoft BI aficionados like your humble correspondent have all the reasons to rejoice. Say whatever you want about Gartner but the quadrant is a great testimonial for Power BI and I think the highest score was overdue. Microsoft still has tons of work on the visualization side of things but I'm glad that Gartner…
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…
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I taught my Applied Power BI class last week to a group of smart data analysts. All of them were knowledgeable of T-SQL, which they have been using extensively for years to shape and transform the data and produce SSRS, Qlik and now Power BI reports. They haven't previously used Power Query, but they liked my overview of its features. However, they were rightfully confused…
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…
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Power BI lets you share content directly with external users for B2B and B2C scenarios. When the benefits of this sharing option outweigh its limitations (read-only reports, requiring Azure AD federated access, per-user licensing, rendering the report inside Power BI), this is the easiest way to share Power BI content with an external party. However, the documentation, which is otherwise excellent, doesn't explain the steps…
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