Explicit Measures Podcast

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Explicit Measures Podcast episodes

January 09, 2025387: Power BI Core Visuals Revisited
Mike & Tommy hear back from the Core Visuals team on their previous conversation, and go over all the major changes and what to expect.
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We launched a vision board detailing our work. This board also highlights sections of the MSFT Learn site where we are documenting everything in unprecedented detail. This process took months of discussions with the MSFT Learn team, which is why it has taken so long.

As mentioned, the MSFT Learn documentation will be fully redesigned for core visuals articles. The new documentation will have three sections for each feature or visual: How to Create, All Format Settings, and Considerations and Limitations. See the new card visual article as an example. New documentation for the Button Slicer, Matrix and Table, Bar Charts, and the recently added Small Multiples for the new card visual is coming soon.

I have shared examples and tutorials of the work people can do with the new features (post 1, post 2, last post). We recognize the challenge of not having better defaults and the time it takes to make things look nice. Plans are in place to address this, but we first need to establish the foundation of the options before organizing them. You mentioned it would be nice to ask Copilot to make things look good, but without the necessary controls, even Copilot won’t be able to help.
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59 min
January 02, 2025 386: Metric Sets & Impact
Mike & Tommy review the new Metrics Sets & Hub and how it fits in Adoption.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-metrics-sets-are-widely-available-in-public-preview/

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54 min
January 01, 2025 385: Excel Migrations to Power BI are the Worst, and Goodbyes to Seth
It is a very sad day for us as Seth Bauer is bowing out of the talk game! We say our goodbyes and wish him luck, it has been amazing 4 years doing this with him twice a week!
We still talk though! what makes Excel Migrations so difficult? It is not just the data, but expectations...

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59 min
December 26, 2024 384: Organizational Apps & Power BI
Mike, Seth, & Tommy finally talk about Power BI Organizational Apps and the impact and comparison of normal Power BI Apps.
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58 min
December 24, 2024 383: Our Microsoft Fabric Secret Santa
Mike, Seth, & Tommy share in the holiday spirit with Fabric Gifts to each other.

1 hr 2 min
December 19, 2024 382: Microsoft Fabric OneLake Catalog & Governance
Mike, Seth, & Tommy talk governance and the new OneLake catalog and what it means for Governance.

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59 min
December 17, 2024 381: The Rise of the Microsoft Fabric Notebook Engineer
Mike, Seth, & Tommy run through a great article by Daneil Beech on the rise of the Notebook Engineer:
https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-notebook-engineer
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53 min
December 17, 2024 380: MAILBAG! Enhancing Power BI Reports - Non-User Commmentary
Mike, Seth, and Tommy dive through a great mailbag on getting feedback in a scalable way:
I have built a monthly "snapshot" report that is delivered to more than a dozen different business units across my firm. These are the subject of one-on-one meetings between the leads of those units and their manager. However, each business unit also has a marketing lead whose job is to help the business unit leads understand the metrics and share some context from the marketing world for why a certain KPI is low or high and what steps are being taken in the coming months to address them. So we have standard metrics delivered by Power BI that need to have narrative context added by marketing leaders before the snapshot report goes to its primary audience. I'm well aware of your hostility to PowerPoint, even with the Power BI add-in, but what are some other tools or approaches that allow non Power BI users to effectively mark up a report as a final phase before it is delivered? Surely this is a common problem!
How can we add comments to reports outside of PowerPoint, Are there any other solutions that let non-Power BI users write down comments into a report?

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31 min
December 10, 2024 379: MAILBAG! "Knowing Data" vs. Knowing The Data - Key Insights for a Career in Data
Mike, Seth, & Tommy go through another mailbag question measuring domain knowledge vs technical knowledge.
To what extent does 'knowing data' matter versus knowing THE data in an organization when building a career in data?

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34 min
December 05, 2024 378: Filter Context Explained
Mike, Seth, & Tommy run through the news from Microsoft Ignite and discuss a visual guide to DAX Filter Context:
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/filter-context-in-dax-explained-visually/

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49 min

About Explicit Measures Podcast

From the publisher's feed

Hosted by Mike Carlo, and Tommy Puglia, the Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI focused show that is like being around a Power BI Pro’s Water Cooler. With so many available resources in the community that focuses on the “how” in Power BI (how to do Drill Through, how to use DAX, etc.,), the Explicit Measures Podcast is all around the WHY. Why use a particular feature, does it make sense for my users?