(Livestream Replay) Fabric & Power BI: Awesome Use-Cases with DAX Query View - with Zoe Douglas

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Join us live as we dive into the world of Microsoft Fabric! In this session, Zoe will walk you through the process of creating semantic models using three powerful approaches: Direct Lake, Import, and DirectQuery (DQ). We'll explore how each of these methods can be utilized within Microsoft Fabric to build robust and scalable models tailored to your data needs.

But that's not all—once we've crafted these models, I'll demonstrate how you can leverage them to write efficient DAX queries using the DAX Query View. Whether you're new to Microsoft Fabric or looking to refine your skills, this demo will provide valuable insights and practical techniques you can apply to your projects.

Bring your questions and curiosity, and let's explore the possibilities together!

GUEST BIO (Zoey Douglas)👤

Zoe is a Product Manager at Microsoft working on Power BI in Microsoft Fabric with features such as DAX query view, Direct Lake, Model Explorer, and Copilot. Before coming to Microsoft I was a Power BI consultant and mentor, enjoying the Power BI community forum and taking on data challenges.

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(Livestream Replay) Creating Accessible Ops Data with Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric - with Will Thompson

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At Microsoft Build in May, we announced Real-Time Intelligence which brings our messaging, time-series analytics and real-time action systems together in Fabric. We’ll look at how these help data engineers and business analysts ingest, analyze, and take action on streaming and real-time data. I’ll demo Eventstreams, Eventhouse, Real-Time Dashboards, and Data Activator.

GUEST BIO (Will Thompson) 👤

Will is a self-confessed data geek, working his way through sysadmin and DBA roles before joining Microsoft. He spent 5 years helping customers in the UK implement and get value out of Microsoft’s BI solution. When an opportunity arose to move into product engineering in 2012, he jumped at it and took ownership of Power BI’s visual and modeling features. In 2022 he started running Product Management for Data Activator, a new product for monitoring and acting on changes in data.

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI Automation With Semantic Link - Sandeep Pawar

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Semantic Link in Microsoft Fabric offers a new way to access the data and semantic information contained in a semantic model. This allows data scientists, data engineers and data analysts to preserve and re-use the business and domain knowledge in creating enterprise solutions.

In this session, Sandeep will give you an overview of Semantic Link and provide practical use cases to use Semantic Link in your development workflow to automate common Power BI tasks, optimize the semantic models and also monitor/manage the tenant. He will also show Semantic Link Labs, an open-source Python library with hundreds of useful utilities.

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Sandeep is a Sr Power BI Architect at Hitachi Solutions America where he helps organizations build enterprise analytics solutions using Microsoft data stack. He blogs about Data Engineering, Data Science and Power BI at fabric.guru

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Medallion Architectures...Do They Actually Work??? - Simon Whiteley

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We’re sold, we’re all about building lake-based data platforms these days – but whether you’re all about the Fabric Lakehouse or Warehouse, whether you’re into custom lakes or OneLake all the way, there are constant arguments about how things should be structured. What if you’ve gone medallion but the zones don't quite fit what they were trying to achieve, and no one in the company understands what "silver" vs. "gold" actually means?

Is the Medallion Architecture right for most businesses - and how should you interpret the advice? What are the different stages of data curation and how do they work in reality? How should we think about schema evolution, data cleansing, record validation, and traditional data modeling techniques, layering them on top of our medallion zones so we truly understand what happens where.

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Simon is a Databricks Beacon, Microsoft MVP and owner of Advancing Analytics. He’s been building and designing lakehouses before they were called lakehouses, and spends most of his time championing data engineering and ranting about Spark on Youtube. When not tinkering with tech, you’ll find Simon wandering the streets of London, always hunting for interesting things to eat, drink and do!

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