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8/2 Webinar: See how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps and the reports they need by Daniel Christian
Join Charles Sterling and one of the Power BI, PowerApps and Flow MVPs Daniel Christian (a triple crown awardee!) as Daniel covers how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps with reports.
Session Abstract:
Education should be the #1 priority and school teachers should be provided all the tools they need. PowerApps, Flow and Power BI can be part of those tools. In this webinar Daniel Christian, Microsoft MVP will demonstrate how his educational app and report can help school teachers monitor the performance of their students. Daniel will demonstrated his PowerApp and Power BI report leverages the back end data to provide valuable insights.
When: 8/2/2018 8AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeDmLwU2YC0
About Daniel Christian
Daniel Christian has over 11 years of SharePoint experience starting with SharePoint Portal 2003 . His area of expertise includes SharePoint On-Premises architecture, maintenance and administration, SharePoint Online administration. He is a big fan of building no-code solutions and reporting. Currently, he is focused on PowerApps and its integration using Gateway with SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016. Besides writing blogs, Daniel enjoys working with musical holiday lights and photography. Here’s the YouTube playlist of his 2016 holiday lights.
8/16/18 Webinar: Building a KPI Scorecard with Custom Visuals in Power BI with Reid Havens
Join Charles Sterling and Reid Havens, local favorite and Power BI User Group leader, as they cover building a KPI scorecard with custom visuals in Power BI. They will show us that knowing the right visuals or DAX to build out a high-level scorecard report can be challenging. Learn about some great custom visuals in conjunction with DAX calculations to build out a quality scorecard template to use in your business.
When: 8/16/18 10:00 AM
About the presenter:
Reid is the Founder of Havens Consulting Inc. He has a formal background in technology and organizational management, having obtained separate Master's Degrees in Organizational Development & Business Analytics. Reid has experience working with many of the Fortune 50, 100, & 500 companies. Additionally he guest lectures at the University of Washington and other universities, teaching Business Intelligence, Reporting, & Data Visualization.
Reid is also an avid content developer, having authored numerous articles and videos on various blog sites and video platforms. He's also written multiple training curriculum's for PowerPivotPro, and taught them as a Principal Consultant at dozens of companies around the world. He also developed college level classes for Bellevue College and The University of Washington. Reid is also currently developing multiple online video series on Learning & Mastering Power BI for the Pack Publishing Company.
7/19/18 Webinar: Next Generation Location and Data Analysis using Mapbox and Power BI
Join Charles Sterling and Sam Gehret as they walk through how Mapbox and Power BI can use location data to tell your story using next generation maps.
When: 7/19/18 10AM PST
If you are not familiar with Mapbox, it is the location data platform for mobile and web applications. They provide building blocks to add location features like maps, search, and navigation into any experience you create.
Sam Gehret is a Solutions Engineer for BI and Data Viz at Mapbox. He currently manages the development and roadmap for the Mapbox custom visual for Power BI. Sam has over 7 years of Business Intelligence experience working in both product and sales at another large BI company. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and is a graduate of the General Assembly Javascript bootcamp.
Webinar 7/17/2018 July 2018 Update for Power BI Embedded with Ted Pattison
Join Charles Sterling and Ted Pattison as they walk through what is new and coming for Power BI Embedding in July 2018.
If you are not fmiliar with with Power BI Embedded for application developers you can embed visual analytics in your products, so your users and customers can gain valuable insights, and you can get to market fast. To embed Power BI in your application or portal, you'll need at least one Power BI Pro account, which will serve as a master account for your application. This master account will allow you to generate embed tokens to enable your application to access Power BI.
When: 7/17/2018
Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and owner of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on Microsoft technologies including Power BI, SharePoint and Office 365. Ted has been speaking at conferences for over 20 years and is a regular speaker at users groups including the Power BI User Group which started in April of 2016. Ted also maintains several open source projects in GitHub including the SharePoint 2016 VM Setup Guide, The Online Virtual Classroom setup Guide and the Power BI Party Pack with sample data and code for demonstrations.
7/12 Webinar: Text Analysis in Power BI with Cognitive services with Leila Etaati
This week we will be delivering a sneak peak of some of the Business Applications Summit content!:
Text Analysis in Power BI with Cognitive services with Leila Etaati
Data that we collected always is not about numbers and structured data. In any organization, there is a need to analyze the text data such as customer comments, extract the primary purpose of a call from its scripts, detect the language of customer feedback and translate it and so forth. To address this issue, Microsoft Cognitive Services provides a set of APIs, SDKs, and services available to developers to do text analysis without writing R or Python codes. In this session, I will explain what is text analysis such as sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, Language detection and so forth. Next, the process of text analysis in Power BI using cognitive services will be demonstrated.
When: July 12, 2018 10:00 AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWod8ETS7J8
About Leila Etaati
Leila is Data Scientist, PhD, MVP, and BI Consultant, and Speaker. She has over 10 years’ experience working with databases and software systems. She was involved in many large-scale projects for big sized companies. Leila has PhD of Information System department, University of Auckland, MS and BS in computer science.
She worked in Industries including banking financial, power and utility, manufacturing … She is a lecturer and trainer in Business intelligence and data base design course in University of Auckland.
Leila speaks in international SQL Server and BI conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, PASS Business Analytics, PASS Rally, and many SQL Saturdays in USA, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on Machine Learning and Analytics topics.
Ask Leila about these technologies and areas;
- Machine Learning
- Advanced Analytics
- Predictive, Prescriptive, and Descriptive Analytics
- Azure Machine Learning
- R
- Python
- On-Prem Machine Learning with SQL Server, R and Python
- Power BI and R
- Power BI
- Stunning Visualization with R
- Microsoft BI Suite in SQL Server
- Azure Stream Analytics
- IOT
- Real-time Streaming
When Leila is not doing data related work, his hobbies are;
- Playing Game Boards!
- Watching all type of movies!
- Swimming if it is not too cold!
6/18 Webinar: My Power BI report is slow: what should I do? by Marco Russo
This week have one of our crowd favorites and Rock star MVPs, Marco Russo who has volunteered to cover the topic:
My Power BI report is slow: what should I do?
Abstract: You created a wonderful Power BI report, but when you open it you wait too much time. Changing a slicer selection is also slow. Where should you start analyzing the problem? What can you do to optimize performance?
This session will guide you in analyzing the possible reasons for a slow Power BI report. By using Task Manager and DAX Studio, you will be able to determine whether you should change the report layout, or if there is something in DAX formulas or in the data model that is responsible for the slow response. At the end of this session, you will understand how to locate a performance bottleneck in a Power BI report, so you will focus your attention on the biggest issue.
When: 6/18/2018 9AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-h3Pohtn1Y
About the Presenter: 
Marco Russo
Consultant and Mentor, SQLBI
Marco Russo is a Business Intelligence consultant and mentor. He has worked with Analysis Services since 1999, and written several books about Power Pivot, Power BI, Analysis Services Tabular, and the DAX language. With Alberto Ferrari, he writes the content published on www.sqlbi.com, mentoring companies’ users about the new Microsoft BI technologies. Marco is also a speaker at international conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, PASS BA Conference, and SQLBits.
6/14 Webinar: Inside the Universal Audit App: See what PowerApps and Flow are capable of by Paul Culmsee
This week have another Australian join me to cover off one of my favorite topics….using PowerApps and Flow to deliver applications that traditionally require a development and devops team!
Inside the Universal Audit App: See what PowerApps and Flow are capable of by Paul Culmsee
This popular app in the PowerApps showcase has resulted in 3-5 requests a week for this app. As a result it has been deployed all around the world. In this session Paul will show how it was conceived, how we leveraged PowerApps and Flow to their full potential and what customization have been done for clients. A great accompaniment session for those looking to get started by showing a complete solution in use around the world…
When June 14th 2018 6pm PST (NOTE the time!)
6/7 Webinar: Building Accessible Power BI Reports by Meagan Longoria
I have been lucky enough to co-present with Meagan a couple of times last month (on Design and Administration); so when she mentioned the two topics that really excite her: Reporting and Accessibility, just like Reese’s peanut butter cups we had the perfect marriage for this weeks Power BI Webinar topic:
Building Accessible Power BI Reports
Accessibility is catering for your whole audience, including those with disabilities. According to the US Census Bureau, 19 percent of the of the population had a disability in 2010. Do you know if your reports are designed in an inclusive way such that everyone in your intended audience can use them? While this question is relevant for every organization, this can be especially important if you are making reports for government entities, educational institutions, or the general public. In this session, we’ll discuss accessibility features available in Power BI today and how to design your Power BI reports with inclusiveness in mind.
When: 6/7/2018 10AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAvkyGGX8IE
About Meagan Longoria
Meagan Longoria is a business intelligence consultant with BlueGranite who lives in Denver, Colorado. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Meagan spends a lot of time thinking about how to use Biml, DAX, and data visualization techniques to make data useful for people. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experiences at conferences and user group meetings as well as through her blog (DataSavvy.me).
5/29 Webinar: Building Spectacular Power BI Dashboards with Zebra BI visuals
During Matt Allington’s webinar: Time intelligence for retail and wholesale industries with Power BI the request was made to have a webinar on the best practices for visualizing business data particularly Time On Time like YOY changes. Next week we have Andreje from Zebra BI to come show how many of the internal teams at Microsoft are doing this with Zebra BI visuals.
Building Spectacular Power BI Dashboards with Zebra BI visuals
We will present advanced data visualization methods for building insightful Power BI dashboards. This lecture will demonstrate how to implement popular datavis techniques like the small multiples and the IBCS® semantic notation by using the Zebra BI custom visuals. We’ll also take on the challenge of presenting the P&L statements in Power BI.
In our presentation, we will build a real-life sales and financial dashboard from the scratch and reveal practical tips&tricks for designing advanced, mobile ready and fully responsive dashboards.
When: May 29th 2018 10AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Dh6aBOO7A
About the Presenter: Andrej Lapajne
Andrej Lapajne is the founder of Zebra BI and a founding member of the IBCS Association. In his 20 years of experience as a consultant, Andrej has implemented reporting systems and BI dashboards across a wide range of industries including pharma, telco, retail, FMCG, manufacturing, insurance, banking, energy, media, public sector and the high tech industry. His experience includes helping Coca-Cola bottlers, Swarovski, Bayer, Roche, Danfoss and many other international companies achieve consistent and efficient reporting.
In the last 5 years, Andrej has led the Zebra BI team in developing fully IBCS-compliant custom visuals for Power BI as well as the popular Zebra BI Excel Add-In.
As a speaker, Andrej has lectured at McKinsey&Co. in NYC, the AFP Annual Conference in Denver, several IBCS annual conferences and at many other international conferences and events. He is a guest lecturer at Faculties of Economics and Computer Science and Informatics in Ljubljana.
5/24 Webinar: Time intelligence for retail and wholesale industries with Power BI by Matt Allington
In this session Power BI MVP and noted book author Matt Allington will be joining from down under to deliver a Power Bi Webinar, focusing on how time intelligence can be used for analysis in the retail and wholesale industries with Excel and Power BI.
When: May 24th 2018 2pm PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju_JURCHA6o
About Matt Allington:
Matt Allington is a BI Professional with over 30 years’ experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Matt has held senior job roles in both the commercial side of business as well as IT roles, and as such Matt is uniquely placed to understand the entire Business Intelligence process – from business needs right through to the IT challenges of delivery. Matt was until recently the BI Director for Asia Pacific at The Coca-Cola Company where he lead a program of improved BI tool usage using Excel, Power Pivot and SharePoint. In 2014 Matt left Coca-Cola to start up his own company (Excelerator BI) and he now specialises in helping small, medium and large companies in Australia leverage Microsoft Excel, Power Pivot and SharePoint to deliver rapid business value. Visit Matt’s blog here. 