Susan Schneider
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Susan Schneider is a certified Microsoft Professional with a concentration in Database Fundamentals. She works as a Business Intelligence Analyst for UF Health in Jacksonville, FL and is lead Power BI developer. Susan started her own technical journey thirteen years ago; and she wants to give back to the technical community that helped and encouraged her along the way.
Susan is a member of Healthcare Data & Analytics Association and an avid fan of Russo and Ferrari, Radacad and those loveable ‘Guys in a Cube’. She is firmly entrenched in the Microsoft camp and loves learning the latest technologies. She is proud to be part of a fabulous team in Decision Support at UF Health; she found her dream job!
When she’s not learning or working; she enjoys ‘trying’ to grow organic veggies in Florida and baking artisan bread. You can find her on LinkedIn. Happy Learning!
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‘So Many Power BI Features, So Little Time: Susan’s Top Ten Best’
With the Power BI Team cranking out monthly updates and new features at a mind-boggling rate, it’s hard to keep up with the new preview features. To help you cut through the white noise, join Susan as she shows off her top ten favorites.
There are many new features to try each month, but we don’t have time to test everything in the real world. So, let’s review the most value-added items we can put into play today in our models; ones that will bring along a ‘wow’ factor with a true value-add! Keep in mind, this list is not even close to an extensive one.
The May 2023 Fabric Rollout aside, we’ll start the list with creative ways to leverage Field Parameters [previewed 2022], moving on to the New Card visual, Explore! In the Service, DAX INFO Functions, storytelling in PowerPoint and the list goes on…. well at least for 10 items; we only have one hour. We can also debate the On-Object Interaction functionality, which takes a little time to get used to and then you can’t live without it!
To get the full list; come on over for a lively discussion and demo rich presentation. There is always something new to learn; let’s learn together!
‘Documenting Your Power BI Model - Getting Creative’
Documentation. No one likes to do it but you’re happy you did, especially when something ‘hits the fan’. Documenting a Power BI model? Now that can be a bit more challenging.
One might say ‘Well the model stands for itself as documentation’, in a way it does; however, it is not the most efficient way to retrieve information quickly. Here’s your scenario: one of your gateways goes down (someone inadvertently removed the server that houses your Power BI gateway from the Firewall). Whoops! Your high-profile model daily refresh just crashed and burned.
You need to quickly change over the model to refresh on the other gateway; but what service account did you use for the Model credentials? The different gateways have a variety of service accounts for the different gateway locations. [I know…..it’s that ‘one tenant’ in two locations scenario] And I hope you’re using a service account and not your business login…..right? At least you better be using the service account!
Having documentation, either using one of the ways I’ll show you or just documenting as few things in the description box on the model in the service, helps in a pinch.
Come join Susan for creative ways to document your Power BI models, using everything from Power BI Helper, to running DMVs in either DAX Studio or using the new DAX INFO functions inside the new DAX Query tab, or Susan’s absolute favorite way. You’ll need to attend the session to find out what that is and how to implement it! Can you spell ‘Vertipaq Analyzer’? Let’s document together; are you ready?
‘Leveraging the Power of AI Visuals: Pros, Cons, and Value Adds’
Developing an Analysis Centric Power BI model, utilizing the four AI visual types in the desktop, can bring a lot of bling to your report; however, how well do these AI visuals perform in answering business questions? Do they create more questions from our end users than they answer or bring new insights to the data?
We’ll walk through each of the 4 AI visuals native in Power BI: Key Indicators, Smart Narratives, Q&A and Decomposition Tree, exploring how to set them up in a model. Then, we’ll break down each one to assess their true effectiveness in analyzing the data. Finally, we’ll list the Pros and Cons for each visual; and along the way, discuss how your data plays a large role in results.
As a bonus, we’ll do a deep dive into the Q&A Settings options. You have the option to manually add your synonyms to the metadata in the model view OR Susan can show you how to master the settings inside the Q&A visual to supercharge training the synonyms model and share synonyms within your organization.
Come on over for a demo rich presentation and interesting discussion; let’s deep dive together.
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