I’m Speaking at Virtual PASS Summit 2020

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

PASS Summit has gone virtual this year, but that isn’t keeping PASS from delivering a good lineup of speakers and activities. I’m excited to be presenting a pre-con and...

2020-08-06

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Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...

2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-09)

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Data Visualization, Context, and Domain Expertise

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. The graph is from Fitbit. It shows the number of steps...

2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)

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Power BI Data Viz Makeover: From Drab to Fab

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

On July 11 at 3pm MDT, Rob Farley and I will be hosting a webinar on report design in Power BI. We will take a report that does not...

2020-06-18

An Updated Version of the Power BI Enterprise Deployment Whitepaper is Available

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

A new version of the Microsoft whitepaper “Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment” is now available. Once again, Melissa Coates (b|t) and Chris Webb (b|t) are the authors. I...

2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)

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Using Logic Apps in a Data Factory Execution Framework – Part 1

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

Data Factory allows parameterization in many parts of our solutions. We can parameterize things such as connection information in linked services as well as blob storage containers and files...

2020-05-22 (first published: 2020-05-07)

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Power Up: Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem, May 27-28

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

Next week I’m speaking at at the Dynamic Communities Power Up event titled “Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem“. It takes place on May 27 & 28, 2020. This exciting...

2020-05-21

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Check Out My MBAS Presentation on Power BI Report Accessibility

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I had the privilege of working with Tessa Hurr (PM on the Power BI team) on a presentation for the 2020 Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) about five features...

2020-05-14

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Stress Cases and Data Visualization

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

Times are stressful right now. There is an ongoing pandemic affecting people’s health and livelihoods. Schedules are messed up, kids are home. People who aren’t used to working remotely...

2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)

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I Presented with Live Captioning and Sign Language Interpreters

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I had the pleasure of presenting a full-day pre-conference session on the Friday before SQLSaturday Austin-BI last weekend. I could spend paragraphs telling you how enjoyable and friendly and...

2020-02-13

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