Tim Henning
Principal at Tailored Technical Solutions
San Diego, California, United States
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Tim Henning is a Power BI enthusiast with 20 years of development, data analysis, and integration experience. He enjoys speaking at user groups and partnering with clients through the entire Power BI development lifecycle.
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Visualization planning and data story telling
BI projects often begin and end with cleaning and organizing data and finally presenting the information in a visualization. This is only a small aspect of how a BI project should begin. The best way to begin a BI project is with the story in mind and refine it as the project progresses. This session will teach you the principles of data storytelling from start to finish. This process is the best way to increase new report adoption.
In this session, you will learn:
• What preliminary questions to ask the project sponsor and key user stakeholders.
• How to know your audience and tailor-make reports for their needs
• How to create actionable insights
• How to choose the correct visualization
• How to avoid clutter
• How to select the correct color pallet
• How to organize data in a way that aligns with visual interpretation and knowledge transfer
• How to create ideas that stick
Lastly, we will cover a sample data story based on a visualization. You will know how to deliver key data insights to gain audience acceptance and traction.
Drive Power BI adoption - be flexible and empower users using a crafted strategy
Users want power, flexibility, and features. IT wants governance, control, consistency, security, and re-use. These goals are often at odds with each other. Come to this session to learn how to achieve these goals, while at the same time, miraculously increasing Power BI adoption.
Further, users must trust reports and data. This trust and confidence only happen with proper governance rules and an organizational strategy to keep data accurate, insightful, timely, and focused. This session will teach you how to create a Power BI Center of Excellence founded on principles that will keep an entire organization aligned, no matter the organization's size.
Organizations have industry, governmental, contractual regulations, and individual privacy concerns. Learn ways to stay in compliance with these critical commitments.
Power BI Report Parallel Development and Version Control Options
Power BI report parallel development is now possible using Project file types and version control. Different team members can merge different changes using enterprise version control tools. Version control for Power BI has been a difficult process to implement. Without it, you are at risk of losing the ability to track changes in your environment. How do you restore reports in your environment in case of production problems? How do you communicate important changes to your team? Power BI version control solutions depend on a few factors. No one solution fits all. In this session we will cover the solutions and decision points for small to enterprise class customers. We will review the new Power BI Project file type and how to use it. We will cover the common Power BI development metadata locations and version control strategies. What CI/CD strategies available are available to the team?
Power Query Best Practices
When and how should I use Power Query? Microsoft has incorporated it in many of its flagship products and services. It can provide assistance in the data preparation, cleaning, and transformation process. This powerful tool has over 80 data connectors and similar features found in enterprise class tools, like database services. Report creators will be faced with tough decisions regarding which tool will prepare and transform data. Knowing when and how to use these powerful features is essential to creating and maintaining high performance reports. In this session, we will explore features and usage guidelines that will ease the decision-making process.
Tim Henning
Principal at Tailored Technical Solutions
San Diego, California, United States
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