Ben Ferry
Senior BI Consultant at International University of Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany
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Power BI professional.
Seven years of experience with Power BI implementation. From Power BI trainings to managing large scale roll-outs, report design to Power BI governance.
Preferred topics are Data Visualisation, Deneb, Power Query, API connectivity.
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Deneb, the star of data visualisation.
Deneb is a powerful custom visualisation in Power BI, which allows us to build precise bespoke visualisation without the limitations of standard Power BI visuals. However there is a learning curve to overcome.
This session helps break down that barrier and show the steps to being proficient in the required skills are not that steep.
We will look at the first steps into Vega-Lite, one of the languages used in Deneb, and break down the basic components needed to build your first visuals and beyond.
Your report looks boring and nobody cares
What people want from your Power BI report is the data. Readable, clear and insightful.
Spending time, clicks, and energy adding 'visually impressive' elements will do little to help the user acceptance of your new report.
Using only Power BI Core visuals, this talk will demonstrate how to avoid the tempting pitfalls of Power BI report development.
To ditch the unnecessary, and focus on what matters, declutter the visual to enable the analysis.
Connect Live: Even More Live
An informal, unplanned, in-person chat, simultaneously live streamed.
Joined by another person in the Power BI community we chat about about Power BI, data, and many other things, which are often completely unconnected to the data world.
This session encourages open conversation about not only data topics, but topics that are important away from data, that influence career paths, and how we approach problems we are faced with personally and professionally.
As we chat, people in the audience are encouraged to ask questions that we may or may not answer.
Goodbye visual shite, hello vega-lite
Break free from the restrictions of Power BI core visuals and enter a world where you have complete control of every element of your data visualisations.
With Vega-Lite and Deneb, you will enter a world of possibilities, walk down the path towards date visualisation awesomeness and discover a world free of the restrictions of clicky clicky draggy droppy datavis.
But be warned, to enter the world of Vega-Lite and Deneb is to learn the possibilities which cannot be unlearned, and will be your first steps to becoming a data visualisation pilkunnussija.
Visualize This! Mastering Vega-Lite and Deneb
Get ready to embark on a visual adventure in our all-day workshop, perfect for business users who are new to the world of Vega-Lite. By the end of this session, you’ll be a Deneb dynamo, creating stunning visuals that will leave your colleagues in awe!
Part 1:
Introduction to Deneb - Let’s kick things off with a bang! We’ll dive into the basics of Deneb and Vega-Lite. You’ll learn what Vega-Lite is and when to use Deneb. By the end of this part, you’ll build your first simple visual. It’s going to be love at first sight!
Part 2:
Loading Examples from a Template - Why reinvent the wheel when you can roll with the best? We’ll show you how to load examples from templates, format values, and play with colors and patterns. Plus, you’ll learn to add a tooltip that will point your audience in the right direction!
Part 3:
Using Expressions - Time to get expressive! We’ll explore Vega-Lite transformations and how to use DAX with Deneb. By the end of this part, you’ll be building more complex visuals that will transform your data into a masterpiece.
Part 4:
Build Multiple Examples of Visuals - Practice makes perfect! You’ll build multiple examples of visuals and discover how to find inspiration from the community. We’ll wrap up with a Q&A session where no question is too graphic!
Join us for a day filled with fun, learning, and a palette of possibilities. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be a visual virtuoso, ready to chart your course to success!
Dax. Deneb. Datavis Galactica.
Fact: DAX helps Deneb.
The aim of this session is to help you understand how using DAX can make your experience with Vega-Lite and Deneb so much more manageable.
Deneb gives you almost absolute control of your visuals, but often the amount of code, and learning a new language in Vega-Lite or Vega, can be overwhelming.
Luckily in Power BI we have DAX! A powerful language which helps us add another layer or flexibility into our visual design process, and can dramatically reduce the amount of code we need to use within Deneb.
In this session we will look at the increased possibilities we are given by combining DAX and Deneb, and how DAX can help overcome some of the limitations you will encounter when building more complex Deneb visuals.
We will also go over some examples of how using DAX with Deneb reduces the complexity of the code needed in Vega-Lite, and makes creating Deneb visuals more accessible to Deneb beginners.
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