Michael Hewitt
Community Leader | Speaker | Data Analytics | Power BI | Fabric | Data Visualization | Power Platform
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Michael Hewitt leads the BI and Analytics team at Hunt Brothers Pizza, based in Nashville, Tennessee. He works at the intersection of data engineering and business strategy — building end to end analytics solutions that business users actually trust and use.
His background spans Microsoft-based BI solutions across healthcare, distribution, and manufacturing, including custom Power BI training developed and delivered for the Department of Defense. His technical focus today centers on Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, DAX, and the practical craft of building data models that hold up under real-world use.
Michael co-organizes the Nashville Power BI User Group and speaks regularly at community and industry events, including FabCon, DataTune, and Day of Data events.
Outside of work, he’s a husband, father of three, a leader in his local church, and someone who’s just as likely to be found drumming, woodworking, or out hiking.
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Make Every Date Count: Utilizing Calendar-Based Time Intelligence in Power BI
Time intelligence has been one of the most powerful features of Power BI from the beginning. But developers working against non-Gregorian calendars, such as a 445 fiscal calendar, ISO calendar, etc., have needed to exert extra effort to harness this power. That all changes with calendar-based time intelligence! This new feature removes the need to implement custom DAX patterns and allows all developers to utilize Power BI's time intelligence functions! In this session, we dive into how to setup calendars, how to access these calendars in DAX, and the performance benefits gained from using the new feature.
Communicate Clearly: Applying Visual Design Best Practices in Reporting
Data visualization is all about communicating with data. Often, data professionals do well in wrangling and analyzing the data but stop short of producing charts that are visually appealing at the expense of clarity. This session merges the nerdy numbers with the artistic side of visual communication with tips that can be applied by anyone, regardless of artistic inclination. If you want to deliver professional level, visually appealing reports, this is the session for you! In this tool agnostic session, we'll focus on how to:
• Eliminate noise and enhance clarity in your charts
• Incorporate Gestalt's principles of perception
• Layout report pages to tell a story
• Choose colors
• Design for visual impairments
30 Power BI Tips and Tricks
This session offers 30 tips and tricks born from years of working with Power BI in the trenches and teaching Power BI to others. We’ll cover many facets of Power BI including DAX, Power Query, visualization, external tools, and more! These tips aim to be practical and useful to Power BI users of all skill levels so that you can take them back to work and level up your Power BI solutions.
Demystifying DAX: An Introduction to Data Analysis eXpressions
Welcome to the wide, wonderful world of DAX! In this introductory session, we embark on a journey through Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), the language at the heart of Microsoft Power BI, Excel Power Pivot, and Analysis Services. We'll lay out a DAX learning path, examine DAX syntax, and provide a solid foundation to know how, when, and where to leverage DAX in your data analysis journey.
DAX 201: CALCULATE, Unfolding the Swiss Army Knife of DAX Functions
Whether you're looking to level up your Power BI game or bridge the gap between beginner and advanced DAX techniques, this session is for you! This session dives right to the heart of evaluation context and the logic behind CALCULATE(). Understanding how these concepts work together behind the scenes is essential for unlocking the full potential of DAX. We will work through DAX calculations that demystify how row context, filter context, and CALCULATE() work together to produce dynamic results. By the end of the session, you'll have the confidence to tackle advanced calculations, optimize performance, and bring actionable insights to your report readers.
A basic understanding of DAX is helpful.
Co-presentation with Mark Walter
Stellar Storytelling: Expanding Your Visualization Universe with Deneb
This session help you explore new visual frontiers in Power BI using Deneb, a Power BI custom visual that uses Vega and Vega-lite to create custom visualizations. We'll explore the fundamentals of the Vega syntax, demo how to speed up the learning curve with templates, and how to leverage AI to help transform your out-of-this-world visions into actual Power BI visuals. Whether you're looking to take your data storytelling to infinity and beyond or simply add another option to your visualization toolkit, this session will give you the knowledge and confidence to launch your Deneb journey.
FABCON 2026 & SQLCON 2026 - SESSIONS Sessionize Event
DataTune 2026 Sessionize Event
Power BI & Fabric Summit 2026 Sessionize Event
Scenic City Summit 2025 Sessionize Event
SQL Saturday Atlanta 2025 - AI & BI Sessionize Event
DFW Power BI User Group
Demystifying DAX: An Introduction to Data Analysis eXpressions
Nashville Modern Excel & Power BI User Group
Demystifying DAX: An Introduction to Data Analysis eXpressions
DataTune 2024 Sessionize Event
SQL Saturday Atlanta 2024 - BI & Data Analytics Sessionize Event
Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence Users
30 Power BI Tips & Tricks
Nashville Modern Excel & Power BI User Group
30 Power BI Tips & Tricks
SQL Saturday Nashville 2020
Applying Visual Design Best Practices in Power BI
Nashville Modern Excel & Power BI User Group
Applying Visual Design Best Practices in Power BI
SQL Saturday Cincinnati 2019
Applying Visual Design Best Practices in Power BI
Nashville Modern Excel & Power BI User Group
Introduction to Microsoft Flow
SharePoint Saturday Nashville 2016
Basics of Building a Knowledgebase in SharePoint
Michael Hewitt
Community Leader | Speaker | Data Analytics | Power BI | Fabric | Data Visualization | Power Platform
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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