Explicit Measures Podcast

What, where, and more importantly, WHY is collaboration in Power BI becoming increasingly important? Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss just that on today's episode. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live...

Today is part two of our series on #powerbi and People, Process, and technology. Today, process. The most underrated of the 3, and potentially the most vague. What does process mean, and what does it in touch in the Power BI realm.  Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podca...

Dataflows in Power BI are fast becoming part of the workflow than ever before. With consistent updates, major releases, and an overall solid product, where truly do dataflows fit into the ecosystem, now with datamarts?  Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Vis...

Special Edition of the Explicit Measures Podcast! This episode we have Product Manager Charles Webb from the Microsoft team joining us with a discussion on Datamarts.   Read More about Datamarts in Power BI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/datamarts/datamarts-overview? WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621 Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tw...

Today begins our 3 week Tuesday series on something all #powerbi professionals need to have a hard look on. The People, Process and Technology framework, and how it impacts the #powerbi and #dataculture. Today, is People. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy go back to why they think they are in Power BI for the long haul (and why you should be too), what they realized early on, and what is next for them for their careers.  Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://po...

With Microsoft ever growing their data platform (if you do not believe us, think of Power BI, now read this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gain-deeper-insights-with-microsoft-intelligent-data-platform/), along with so many options for developers and organizations to choose from.  When we say "final" data, we are referring to the main location or product that consumers will be viewing...

Surprise! We forgot to Publish 134 from last week: There are more features, settings, and components in the Power BI Ecosystem that you can count, and even more that are getting released and updated that you can keep up with. The guys go over what they have found that are the least utilized but provide amazing impact, from Desktop to Service.  Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics yo...

We are diving into another amazing article, this time by Kurt Buhler (LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtbuhler/) and this is all about how we are constantly taking different approaches and migration of older datasets and reports and transforming them into Power BI. What are the risks (Lift & Shift, Tell us what you need), and how do we make this a better experience for us and users? L...

So we know Storytelling is a buzz word in our industry... But how much storytelling are we actually doing, and as Mike, Seth, & Tommy get into it, how much should we be doing?  Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy are finally ready to tackle the amazing Field Parameters feature in Power BI, and what the true implications and impact on new and existing reports are and will be.  Just how much will change in current builds and processes, and what new potential use cases do they open up? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITip...

The guys discuss the importance, role, and needs of the Power BI feature for consumers to personalize any visual in a Power BI Report.  Just how important is this feature, and should there be more of a push towards adoption and consumers using it? What are the implications or potential issues, and what are the best practices and approaches? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you w...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss the following article and if a Database Administrator is still a required role on its own, or if the DBA is merging with other skillsets in the world of Power BI. https://medium.com/@fpatano/architecting-for-performance-on-databricks-sql-6a02c0539ab1 Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #e...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss how much the Power BI Community has changed and is connected, and what does the future of User Groups, conferences, and overall community growth look like moving forward.  Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips:...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy are again inspired by an article by Enrico Bertini on Data Visualization:  https://filwd.substack.com/p/beyond-precision-expressiveness-in Just how much leeway should Power BI Reports have in regards to how we visualize data? Where do we keep to themes and standards, and where do we allow the developer to provide the best layout? Get in touch: Send in your questions or...

We have another Mailbag! Mike, Seth, & Tommy received a question that was a must-talk topic.  How many times have you as a Power BI developer been handed a report that is priority for the business, and in need of a major revamp. The reports that are basically "What Not To Do" in the Power BI Best Practices world. What processes do the guys use on rebuilding bad reports? Get in touch: Send...

Today's topic comes from the mailbag! to get your own question discussed, see the links below. We have talked loads about the need for a strong Hub (centralized BI team) with good spokes (departmental BI). But what happens when there is no Hub, or you have a weak one? What if you are building from a non-centralized area and introducing Power BI to the organization? The guys discuss adoption approa...

The delicate dance between perfection and delivery. What are the core things you should do before you "send it out the door", and what is acceptable technical debt to provide a solution? On the other side, are we creating throw away work, or unnecessary work taking up too much time? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #...

The guys talk in-depth about the importance and weight of creating and standardizing "Global" models in an organization. With the introduction of datamarts, live connections, should Power BI developers be focusing on this process by default? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips P...

Yes, it's finally the guys time to review the biggest release by Microsoft this year. Data Marts. If you have not heard of this feature - GET TO IT. The guys are going to review what they think, what the implications are for this moving forward, and what should Power BI Developers be preparing for using for datamarts in our solutions. This is not something we are doing now, but in a year will this...

You poll 100 Power BI developers, and there is a good chance that the majority of every-day builders love to figure out technical puzzles. We have to deal with this in almost every situation, but how does Power BI become a tool and enabler as we figure out bad data, missing data, or overall problems where we need to provide the solution.  We love problem solving, but we need to be skilled her...

When we get in the weeds of a new / major report project, many times the models build on themselves. First we have the discovery, exploration, and figuring out what we need. All of the processes build on one another, and especially when we colloborate.  Now fast-forward, and all of sudden your Power BI model is handing by thread... Complicated, dependent, and slow. Where do we begin, and how...

The guys are going back to the Usage Scenarios series in the Microsoft Docs, focusing on the scenarios below: Personal (review from last week) Team Departmental Enterprise https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-implementation-planning-usage-scenario-overview Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMa...

This comes in hot from another great article by Matthew Roche - link here: https://ssbipolar.com/2022/04/16/on-building-expertise/ We have seen just in the last couple of months the Power Platform dramatically shift. From Data Marts (in progress) to creating a Power APP from a drawing, we are in the business to not only do our job well, but constantly identify the new skills and then tackle and gr...

What does it mean that your organization and people have "successfully" adopted and utilize Power BI? One of our favorite buzz words is "trust", yet despite being data geeks, we are striving towards a goal we cannot measure!  Or can we?  How and what can we do to create a measurement around trust in the data.   Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by...