DAXdakan with Power BI Pilipinas

📌 Join us this March 15 (Sunday), 8PM Manila Time for another exciting episode of the DAXdakan Podcast! 💡 This time, we’re diving into the world of Geo-spatial Shape Maps in Power BI—a powerful way to visualize data with geographic context. Facilitated by Alexis Gamboa (a.k.a. Chad GPT), this session will explore how to make your reports truly special with geo-spatial insights. 👉 Don’t miss out...

Liping Huang, Tabular Editor Field CTO, walks us through the powerful features of Tabular Editor for Power BI Desktop. Whether you’re using the free or paid version, Tabular Editor can significantly improve your Power BI workflow! DAXdakan is a re-occuring Teams meeting with other Power BI Pilipinas members. Language is Filipino/English. Attendance is free. Connect with Liping: https://www.linkedi...

Discover what it takes to become a Microsoft Student Ambassador (MSA) or a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), and how these paths can shape your education and career. MSA panel guests: Vash Puno Rhandie Sales Jr. Carl Joshua Cabase MVP panel guests: Dane Christian Belarmino, CPA Charven Ligan 📅 Feb 08, 2026, 8:00 PM (Philippines) 📍 Microsoft Teams Big thanks to all of our volunteers! DA...

We are very excited to announce that the 1st ever Power BI Pilipinas Community Data Challenge in LIVE! This challenge is open to all Power BI Pilipinas members who are Filipino citizens, or at least residing in the Philippines. Deadline of the challenge will be on November 15, 2025 (11:59 PM Manila time). Our data consists of DPWH Government Projects. Start the challenge by downloading the dataset...

DAXdakan Again @ AIM (a.k.a. DAXdakan Live #3) was brought to you by the Asian Institute of Management. This Power BI Pilipinas hybrid training and networking event happened 9am on November 16, 2024, at the 3F Aboitiz Techspace of AIM. I'll never get tired of saying it, thank you very much to everyone who joined, coming from different parts of the country. And thank you to all of esteemed speakers...

Pang malakasan! 💪 Thank you so much to Abs Avila Jr., Founder of DataSense Analytics (DSA) and Data Analytics Philippines (DAP), for guesting in our DAXdakan 1-to-1 episode. He walked us through his journey in data analytics, educated us about mastery in our domain, the 7 pillars in mastering Power BI, and even provided us with free resources to get started in your own data analytics journey! DAX...

Back to basics muna tayo with a beginner friendly DAXdakan! "Dashboard in an Hour" is one of my go-to presentations for the beginner crowd. This time, powered by Microsoft Copilot! DAXdakan is a re-occuring Teams meeting with other Power BI Pilipinas members. Language is Filipino/English. Attendance is free. This episode is available in Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music. 00:00:00...

Thank you to everyone who attended last week's DAXdakan 1:many! Especially to our Power BI Pilipinas moderators who shared their data professional journeys with us. 00:00:00 - Video start 00:02:44 - We are now the 3rd biggest PBI community in the world! 00:04:46 - Dane Belarmino (https://www.facebook.com/DAXJutsuPBI) 00:22:12 - Drizzle Pablo (https://www.facebook.com/Techbayanihan) 00:32:05 -...

During TechBayanihan 2024, one of the bits that I really enjoyed was Joel Garcia's career talk. Recuitday's CEO shared his career tip to ABC, or Always Be Connecting. This is a follow-up of that talk. DAXdakan is a re-occuring Teams meeting with other Power BI Pilipinas members. Language is Filipino/English. Attendance is free. This episode is available in Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts,...

Thanks to everyone, most especially our esteemed guests, for DAXdaking with us for 3 hours during our Saturday night (to Sunday morning) podcast. Summary by Copilot: • TechBayanihan Event: Drizzle and Abs discussed the upcoming TechBayanihan 2024 event, highlighting its purpose to kickstart careers in data analytics and the Microsoft ecosystem for Filipinos. The event aims to provide discovery, sk...

DAXdakan Live #2 @AIM was a success! Massive thanks to the Asian Institute of Management for accomodating us. Huge props to my special guest turned speaker, Dominic Ligot. And most importantly, thank you so much to all the participants. This event literally would not happen if not for the enthusiasm and energy that you bring to these face-to-face events. This special episode is available in Youtub...

Thank you. To my 2 moderators that travelled from the far East and far South of the metro. (Armando Castroverde (CSSWB) and Rico Balibalita) To Ar-Em Lampa who graced our event, and who first showed me that organic, free meetups can happen. To Myk Ogbinar who inspired me next, with more free meetups and using CBTL-Ortigas Park as a flexible venue. To my ex-colleagues Joseph Crisostomo and Nathanae...

DAXdakan Episode 7 is out, and we talk about my journey to DP-600! In this episode, I talk about my journey in being a Microsoft Certified Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate. From taking the AI Skills Challenge, failing my 1st practice exam, passing it, and finally going all-in in a certification exam that I scheduled 2 weeks right after I received my exam voucher. Thanks to everyone who joined l...

Episode 5 in da haus! Happy women's month to everyone! In this episode, special suprise guest (wherein we both got suprised) Arman Castroverde shared his experience with PyCon PH 2024. We also discussed some new features from the Power BI Desktop Feb 2024 update. We then looked at some open questions from the Power BI Pilipinas Community. And finally checked out Rico Balibalita's award win...

Episode 5 yo! Happy holidays to everyone! In this episode, we discussed random Power BI Tips and Tricks. From usage metrics report, to decompressing Gzip files in PowerQuery, to using the EmptyCharacter, to using DAX Studio and the latest DAX view pane of Power BI to view your measures, to using the offset function in resetting cumulatives, to auto appending multiple Excel spreadsheets with non-ma...

Episode 4 is in the books! For this episode, we discussed a very meaty update from the Microsoft Power BI team that is the November 2023 release. With discussions around button slicers, reference labels, and a couple of Copilot power PBI visuals. Again, thank you so much to everyone who joined the live conversation kahit via chat lang. Sorry for the screenshare issues this episode. I fixed it in t...

And that's a wrap for episode 3! This was nervous episode for me since I didn't invite an extra speaker. Solo flight and relied on the audience to take the discussion places. That said, thank you so much to everyone who joined the live conversation kahit via chat lang. Sorry for all the webcam issues this episode. I'll prep better next time. Interested in presenting and helping the com...

Thank you for supporting episode 2 everyone! Thanks for hopping in the Teams call, for asking your questions via chat, for reacting over at Facebook live, for joining our Fabric Community (FabCom), and for answering our post-event survey. Special thanks to our guest presenter, Mark Leghrand De Jesus, a Systems Specialist from PAL Express, for providing a sneak peek on how Microsoft's Power Pla...

Thanks to everyone who joined and participated (kahit shy) in our 1st ever DAXdakan episode! DAXdakan is a bi-weekly (once every 2 weeks) Teams meeting with other Power BI Pilipinas members. Language is Filipino/English. Topics range from PBI updates, best practices, features, industry applications, AMAs (Ask Me Anything), and whatever we can come up with. No time to watch the video? This episode...