You know how many words they say a picture is worth. It is likely that you have seen the benefit of visualizing data either as you troubleshoot, analyze, or even in the process of learning. Your colleagues are crafting shapes, lines, and colors to bring all kinds of corporate performance data to visual life. As a DBA you deal with performance, you even use data to investigate it! Come to think of it you use all kinds of data to manage your systems, visualization is a tool for you as well. Yes, monitoring solutions visualize a lot of the data you want to see - but sometimes you want to see something else or simply see the same data presented in a different way. Maybe you need to monitor some part of your data estate without a monitoring tool available. PowerBI provides the means by which you can bring the data you want to see, and display it in the shapes, lines, and colors that make sense to you.
This session will introduce you to:
• Connection basics
• Data ingestion
• Data transformation/modeling
• Basic data visualization design
• Avoiding common pitfalls
By the end of this session, you will be able to take these basics back to the office so you can visualize the data you need. Additionally, you will have some guidance on what to look for in the wide world of the Internet to take the next steps in your data visualization journey.