Thanks for joining Anthony Martin (@SQLMartini) and I at the Boston BI User Group Meeting in October. During the session, we demo’d and built dashboards in Power BI Desktop and Datazen Publisher.
Power BI
Couple of thoughts from our demo:
- Power BI is a way to get data, model data, and visualize it
- Power BI Desktop allows you to work with data on your PC
- Power BI is experiencing a lot of change – for example over 40 changes were applied in September 2015
- Power BI has an open API that allows you to customize the experience
Datazen
Couple of thoughts from our demo:
- Design first scenario – make it look good, then shape data to match
- Datazen publisher allows us to create dashboard for many different profiles
- Datazen handles custom shapes
Additional Training from Pragmatic Works
- Free Power BI Webinars
- Creating Solutions with the New Power BI Desktop
- Where Does Power BI Fit in Your Data Architecture-
- Automating Power BI Creations
- Introduction to the Power BI Designer
- Power BI- Data Refresh and SSAS On-Premises Connectivity
- Power Pivot 102- Advanced Power Pivot Modeling
- Powering Up HDInsight with Power BI
- Free Datazen Webinars
Questions from the Session
Can you use links in Datazen to support drillthrough?
Yes. You can find more information here: Drill-throughs to Other Dashboards or Custom URLs.
Power BI API Development
You have the ability customize Power BI. Check out the contest winners to get some ideas of what is possible.
Details about the solutions can be found on the Power BI blog: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Best-Visual-Contest/con-p/best_visual_contest/tab/entries.
You can find more about custom visuals here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/custom-visuals.
Thanks again for joining us.
