Operational dashboarding and reporting with Microsoft Business IntelligenceJohn White
A great looking, relevant, informative dashboard for the executive is the ultimate end goal for most Business Intelligence projects. Microsoft has all of the tools that are necessary to get data from your transactional systems into an effective dashboard. What is less clear is to how to go about achieving it. Which tools should you use? As with most things, we have different tools for different requirements, and it isn't always clear as to how they match up.
This session will focus on what the various reporting and dashboarding tools from Microsoft can do for you, where you should use them, and how to get them working for you. Both on premises and cloud based scenarios will be discussed. At the conclusion of this session, you should have a fundamental understanding of the Microsoft products in this space fit together, including Excel, Reporting Services, SharePoint, Power View, and PerformancePoint.
Keeping It Tidy- How to Warehouse your SharePoint DataJohn White
We all know that SharePoint is an excellent tool for gathering information and collaborating. What it is less good at it maintaining large quantities of that information over long periods of time. The good news is that SQL Server is very good at exactly that.
In the spirit of choosing the right tool for the right job, this session will present a methodology for moving your historical SharePoint information from SharePoint and into a SQL Server based data warehouse. From there, we will cover several method for then surfacing data back in SharePoint in context.
Keeping It Tidy - How to Warehouse Your Sharepoint DataJohn White
We all know that SharePoint is an excellent tool for gathering information and collaborating. What it is less good at it maintaining large quantities of that information over long periods of time. The good news is that SQL Server is very good at exactly that.
In the spirit of choosing the right tool for the right job, this session will present a methodology for moving your historical SharePoint information from SharePoint and into a SQL Server based data warehouse. From there, we will cover several method for then surfacing data back in SharePoint in context.
Power BI Deep Dive - Tips and Tricks From the Preview ProgramJohn White
You've seen what Power BI can do. From lightning fast data mashups to dynamics reports to natural language queries. The question now is, "how do I get it to work for me?". That's what this session is all about. It will show you what's behind those impressive demonstrations, how they work, and what you need to do to make Power BI work for you.
Power BI has had a long preview program, and there have been many lessons learned along the way. This session will share those lessons, outlining some "best practices" when using Power BI. All of the constituent components will be covered - Excel, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map, Office 365, BI Sites, and the Data Management Gateway. After attending this session, you'll be able to roll out Power BI and avoid the pitfalls.
Helping the business make sense of Business IntelligenceJohn White
Chances are, your role in IT has been changing as the needs of the business have changed. But the forces outside your company are now driving that change at an ever increasing pace. This environment means that you have a great opportunity to partner with your business colleagues to truly innovate rather than just do "break/fix". Understanding what business intelligence is and how it can help your business is a great place to start.
The world of business intelligence (BI) goes beyond what most think of as just "reporting". It has nuances and complexities that require a combination of skills and people. For example, are you ready to help your company understand the difference between analytical reporting and prescriptive reporting? What about "Big Data" and Data Mining? As a SharePoint Professional, you want to be aware of what is possible.
Learn more about PowePivot, Microsoft's new in-memory engine, and how you can extend it with advanced analytics and a data security layer for enterprise wide deployment.
Nazish Qasim, Senior Consultant with WebVine, compares the various BI technologies that are available under the Microsoft stack and delivered through SharePoint. This includes Excel Services, PowerPivot, PowerView, Reporting Services, and PerformancePoint Services. He compares these offerings by looking at their different modeling, reporting, and visualization features.
This presentation was delivered to the Sydney SharePoint User Group on Sept 11, 2013.
Operational dashboarding and reporting with Microsoft Business IntelligenceJohn White
A great looking, relevant, informative dashboard for the executive is the ultimate end goal for most Business Intelligence projects. Microsoft has all of the tools that are necessary to get data from your transactional systems into an effective dashboard. What is less clear is to how to go about achieving it. Which tools should you use? As with most things, we have different tools for different requirements, and it isn't always clear as to how they match up.
This session will focus on what the various reporting and dashboarding tools from Microsoft can do for you, where you should use them, and how to get them working for you. Both on premises and cloud based scenarios will be discussed. At the conclusion of this session, you should have a fundamental understanding of the Microsoft products in this space fit together, including Excel, Reporting Services, SharePoint, Power View, and PerformancePoint.
Keeping It Tidy- How to Warehouse your SharePoint DataJohn White
We all know that SharePoint is an excellent tool for gathering information and collaborating. What it is less good at it maintaining large quantities of that information over long periods of time. The good news is that SQL Server is very good at exactly that.
In the spirit of choosing the right tool for the right job, this session will present a methodology for moving your historical SharePoint information from SharePoint and into a SQL Server based data warehouse. From there, we will cover several method for then surfacing data back in SharePoint in context.
Keeping It Tidy - How to Warehouse Your Sharepoint DataJohn White
We all know that SharePoint is an excellent tool for gathering information and collaborating. What it is less good at it maintaining large quantities of that information over long periods of time. The good news is that SQL Server is very good at exactly that.
In the spirit of choosing the right tool for the right job, this session will present a methodology for moving your historical SharePoint information from SharePoint and into a SQL Server based data warehouse. From there, we will cover several method for then surfacing data back in SharePoint in context.
Power BI Deep Dive - Tips and Tricks From the Preview ProgramJohn White
You've seen what Power BI can do. From lightning fast data mashups to dynamics reports to natural language queries. The question now is, "how do I get it to work for me?". That's what this session is all about. It will show you what's behind those impressive demonstrations, how they work, and what you need to do to make Power BI work for you.
Power BI has had a long preview program, and there have been many lessons learned along the way. This session will share those lessons, outlining some "best practices" when using Power BI. All of the constituent components will be covered - Excel, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map, Office 365, BI Sites, and the Data Management Gateway. After attending this session, you'll be able to roll out Power BI and avoid the pitfalls.
Helping the business make sense of Business IntelligenceJohn White
Chances are, your role in IT has been changing as the needs of the business have changed. But the forces outside your company are now driving that change at an ever increasing pace. This environment means that you have a great opportunity to partner with your business colleagues to truly innovate rather than just do "break/fix". Understanding what business intelligence is and how it can help your business is a great place to start.
The world of business intelligence (BI) goes beyond what most think of as just "reporting". It has nuances and complexities that require a combination of skills and people. For example, are you ready to help your company understand the difference between analytical reporting and prescriptive reporting? What about "Big Data" and Data Mining? As a SharePoint Professional, you want to be aware of what is possible.
Learn more about PowePivot, Microsoft's new in-memory engine, and how you can extend it with advanced analytics and a data security layer for enterprise wide deployment.
Nazish Qasim, Senior Consultant with WebVine, compares the various BI technologies that are available under the Microsoft stack and delivered through SharePoint. This includes Excel Services, PowerPivot, PowerView, Reporting Services, and PerformancePoint Services. He compares these offerings by looking at their different modeling, reporting, and visualization features.
This presentation was delivered to the Sydney SharePoint User Group on Sept 11, 2013.
A simplified version of my presentation:
- PowerBI solution architecture
- Key steps to visualize data in PowerBI
- PowerBI Demo
- R in PowerBI
- Custom Visuals
- PowerBI Report Server
- Azure services and Power BI
The slides used for the PowerPivot Webinar hosted by Phil Hummel of WinWire technologies. Visit www.Winwire.com or write to info@winwire.com for more information
http://bit.ly/SQSummit
En el último año el ecosistema de herramientas de visualización de Microsoft ha crecido, desarrollado y combinado entre sí. ¿Qué camino está tomando? ¿qué puedo hacer con Reporting Services que no pueda hacer con Power BI, Report Server o viceversa? Haremos un análisis de la característica que diferencian cada una, de forma muy rápida.
SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010: Reporting NirvanaRandy Williams
With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft finally delivers on a critical business need: end-user driven reporting solutions. In this session, be prepared to be amazed by the power and ease of Power View, Microsoft's latest reporting technology that lets regular users build rich, dynamic reporting applications right from the browser. We'll then learn how the next generation of PowerPivot and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) integrates as a pure SharePoint service application, simplifying deployment and the architecture of your reporting platform.
Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a new and emerging self-service business intelligence and business analytics framework that brings together and enhances a few key Microsoft technologies. Fundamentally, Power BI is considered a premium Office option, because Microsoft licenses it that way. We will answer the following questions:
◾What makes Power BI different from the Microsoft Office I have known for years?
◾What are the major Power BI features in Excel 2013 and 2010?
◾What are the major features for Power BI for Office 365?
◾How can our team license Power BI?
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? This session was delivered for SharePoint Saturday Reston.
What's New with BI in SQL Server Denali (SQL11)Dan English
During this session we are going to go over some of the new BI features that have been enhanced and added in SQL Server "Denali" (SQL11). We will look at new features that have been added into Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Along with this we will talk about and go over the new report authoring tool "Crescent" showing how this tool will provide you the ability to access, explore, and visualize your data in a whole new way and have fun at the same time.
Microsoft Power BI helps you stay up to date with the information that matters to you. With Power BI, dashboards help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business. Your dashboards display tiles that you can click to open reports for exploring further. Connect to multiple data sets to bring all of the relevant data together in one place.
Power BI Single Page Applications Boise Code Camp 2017Stuart
Have lots of data? Need a dashboard powered by Microsoft Azure? Love Javascript? Learn how to use Javascript to integrate data-rich user experiences in PowerBI with your existing web applications. Featured for Boise Code Camp 2017.
What are the best reporting tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP? This presentation looks at the current tools available for Dynamics GP.
We are Microsoft Certified Gold Partners and specialize in Microsoft Dynamics GP.
www.TGO.ca
info@TGO.ca
905 470 6830
The Microsoft business intelligence front end tools are rich and varied and have also changed and grown over the years. We give an overview of the Microsoft business analytics tools, from Power BI to Excel and SQL Server and include a chart that compares their features.
[JSS2015] Power BI: Nouveautés archi et hybridesGUSS
Il y a un peu moins de 6 mois, Microsoft sortait la version 2.0 de Power BI. Cette session fait le point sur cette version 2.0, les ressemblances mais aussi les différences avec la version précédente. Elle proposera également une vue architecturale d’ensemble de Power BI et fera les points sur les avancées régulières du produit.
Take a look at Mobile BI on iPad, Windows Phone, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SharePoint with emphasis on data visualization best practices. Angel Abundez explains how design approaches change when launching mission-critical dashboards and reports on smaller screen sizes using touch-screen technology.
Presenter Angel Abundez is a Business Intelligence consultant with DesignMind in San Francisco. He focuses on Business Intelligence, Visualization, and improving business processes using Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, and ASP.NET. He also works with the new visualizations coming out with PowerPivot, Power View, and SharePoint. Angel is Co-Lead of the Bay Area Business Intelligence User Group and is an active speaker in the SQL Server community.
A simplified version of my presentation:
- PowerBI solution architecture
- Key steps to visualize data in PowerBI
- PowerBI Demo
- R in PowerBI
- Custom Visuals
- PowerBI Report Server
- Azure services and Power BI
The slides used for the PowerPivot Webinar hosted by Phil Hummel of WinWire technologies. Visit www.Winwire.com or write to info@winwire.com for more information
http://bit.ly/SQSummit
En el último año el ecosistema de herramientas de visualización de Microsoft ha crecido, desarrollado y combinado entre sí. ¿Qué camino está tomando? ¿qué puedo hacer con Reporting Services que no pueda hacer con Power BI, Report Server o viceversa? Haremos un análisis de la característica que diferencian cada una, de forma muy rápida.
SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010: Reporting NirvanaRandy Williams
With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft finally delivers on a critical business need: end-user driven reporting solutions. In this session, be prepared to be amazed by the power and ease of Power View, Microsoft's latest reporting technology that lets regular users build rich, dynamic reporting applications right from the browser. We'll then learn how the next generation of PowerPivot and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) integrates as a pure SharePoint service application, simplifying deployment and the architecture of your reporting platform.
Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a new and emerging self-service business intelligence and business analytics framework that brings together and enhances a few key Microsoft technologies. Fundamentally, Power BI is considered a premium Office option, because Microsoft licenses it that way. We will answer the following questions:
◾What makes Power BI different from the Microsoft Office I have known for years?
◾What are the major Power BI features in Excel 2013 and 2010?
◾What are the major features for Power BI for Office 365?
◾How can our team license Power BI?
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? This session was delivered for SharePoint Saturday Reston.
What's New with BI in SQL Server Denali (SQL11)Dan English
During this session we are going to go over some of the new BI features that have been enhanced and added in SQL Server "Denali" (SQL11). We will look at new features that have been added into Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Along with this we will talk about and go over the new report authoring tool "Crescent" showing how this tool will provide you the ability to access, explore, and visualize your data in a whole new way and have fun at the same time.
Microsoft Power BI helps you stay up to date with the information that matters to you. With Power BI, dashboards help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business. Your dashboards display tiles that you can click to open reports for exploring further. Connect to multiple data sets to bring all of the relevant data together in one place.
Power BI Single Page Applications Boise Code Camp 2017Stuart
Have lots of data? Need a dashboard powered by Microsoft Azure? Love Javascript? Learn how to use Javascript to integrate data-rich user experiences in PowerBI with your existing web applications. Featured for Boise Code Camp 2017.
What are the best reporting tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP? This presentation looks at the current tools available for Dynamics GP.
We are Microsoft Certified Gold Partners and specialize in Microsoft Dynamics GP.
www.TGO.ca
info@TGO.ca
905 470 6830
The Microsoft business intelligence front end tools are rich and varied and have also changed and grown over the years. We give an overview of the Microsoft business analytics tools, from Power BI to Excel and SQL Server and include a chart that compares their features.
[JSS2015] Power BI: Nouveautés archi et hybridesGUSS
Il y a un peu moins de 6 mois, Microsoft sortait la version 2.0 de Power BI. Cette session fait le point sur cette version 2.0, les ressemblances mais aussi les différences avec la version précédente. Elle proposera également une vue architecturale d’ensemble de Power BI et fera les points sur les avancées régulières du produit.
Take a look at Mobile BI on iPad, Windows Phone, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SharePoint with emphasis on data visualization best practices. Angel Abundez explains how design approaches change when launching mission-critical dashboards and reports on smaller screen sizes using touch-screen technology.
Presenter Angel Abundez is a Business Intelligence consultant with DesignMind in San Francisco. He focuses on Business Intelligence, Visualization, and improving business processes using Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, and ASP.NET. He also works with the new visualizations coming out with PowerPivot, Power View, and SharePoint. Angel is Co-Lead of the Bay Area Business Intelligence User Group and is an active speaker in the SQL Server community.
Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service that orchestrates and automates the movement and transformation of data. In this session we will learn how to create data integration solutions using the Data Factory service and ingest data from various data stores, transform/process the data, and publish the result data to the data stores.
See how to avoid these mistakes when building your Excel dashboards:
--No clear focus
--Rainbow colors
--Too crowded
--Chart clutter
--No interactivity
Big Data Warehousing Meetup: Dimensional Modeling Still Matters!!!Caserta
Joe Caserta went over the details inside the big data ecosystem and the Caserta Concepts Data Pyramid, which includes Data Ingestion, Data Lake/Data Science Workbench and the Big Data Warehouse. He then dove into the foundation of dimensional data modeling, which is as important as ever in the top tier of the Data Pyramid. Topics covered:
- The 3 grains of Fact Tables
- Modeling the different types of Slowly Changing Dimensions
- Advanced Modeling techniques like Ragged Hierarchies, Bridge Tables, etc.
- ETL Architecture.
He also talked about ModelStorming, a technique used to quickly convert business requirements into an Event Matrix and Dimensional Data Model.
This was a jam-packed abbreviated version of 4 days of rigorous training of these techniques being taught in September by Joe Caserta (Co-Author, with Ralph Kimball, The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit) and Lawrence Corr (Author, Agile Data Warehouse Design).
For more information, visit http://casertaconcepts.com/.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Dashboard page from monthly management pack developed in Excel. User can customise report by using various controls on the sheet, eg by selecting the reporting period date, choosing whether to display in 000\'s or millions, selecting items they want to graph using drop-down boxes, and various option boxes to select YTD, budget, monthly, prior year, etc. Allows user to print full management pack of 20+ pages by the click of one button. Uses VBA to control program flow.
Power BI Create lightning fast dashboard with power bi & Its Components Vishal Pawar
Every data has meaning, but we had limitation to use data through big long running process Extraction, Transformation and Representation, but now Power BI solves your problem to kick start having Data extraction in Power Query, Data Modelling and Transformation in Power Pivot and reach data representation using power view and power map on demand any nearby device on your fingertips, You will learn all latest and greatest features of Power BI.
Design Principles of Excel Dashboards & ReportsWiley
Get yourself into a dashboard state of mine with these best practices for Excel dashboards and reports.
Content from Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies by Michael Alexander. Learn more: http://bit.ly/FDExcelDashboards
and
SalesForce.com For Dummies by Tom Wong, Liz Kao, Matt Kaufma. Learn more: http://bit.ly/ForDummiesSF
The presentation discusses the different aspects of Power BI like Power BI for O365, Data Discovery, Data Analysis, Data Visualization & Power Maps, Natural Language Search etc.
Its a business analytics solution presented by Netwoven at the Microsoft Power BI workshop held on Oct 30th at SVC Microsoft, Mountain View.
These slides are from recent talks by Andy Kirk of visualisingdata.com. The subject refers to the many different mindsets or roles that are required to be fulfilled for the effective design of data visualisation.
This slide deck gives a general overview of Data Visualization, with inspiring examples, the strength and weaknesses of the human visual system, a few technical frameworks that may be used for creating your own visualizations and some design concepts from the data visualization field.
Data Visualization 101: How to Design Charts and GraphsVisage
Learn to design effective charts and graphs.
Your data is only as good as your ability to understand and communicate it. The right visualization is essential to incite a desired action, whether from customers or colleagues. But most marketers aren’t mathematicians or adept at data visualization. Fortunately, you don’t need a PhD in statistics to crack the data visualization code.
Configuring SharePoint Server 2013 environment for Business Intelligence Plat...Joseph Lopez
Configuring SharePoint 2013 for BI is not just clicking next in the configuration wizard but it needs some special attention with configuring service applications and of course we cannot forget about configuring Kerberos delegation.
We take a look at configuring PerformancePoint, PowerPivot, Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode and everything you need to know to successfully configure BI services.
Best practices to deliver data analytics to the business with power biSatya Shyam K Jayanty
Get your data to life with Power BI visualization and insights!
With the changing landscape of Power BI features it is essential to get hold of configuration and deployment practices within your data platform that will ensure you are on-par with compliance & security practices. In this session we will overview from the basics leading into advanced tricks on this landscape:
How to deploy Power BI?
How to implement configuration parameters and package BI features as a part of Office 365 roll out in your organisation?
What are newest features and enhancements on this Power BI landscape?
How to manage on-premise vs on-cloud connectivity?
How can you help and support the Power BI community as well?
Having said that within the objectives of this session, cloud computing is another aspect of this technology made is possible to get data within few clicks and ticks to the end-user. Let us review how to manage & connect on-premise data to cloud capabilities that can offer full advantage of data catalogue capabilities by keeping data secure as per Information Governance standards. Not just with nuts and bolts, performance is another aspect that every Admin is keeping up, let us look into few settings on how to maximize performance to optimize access to data as required. Gain understanding and insight into number of tools that are available for your Business Intelligence needs. There will be a showcase of events to demonstrate where to begin and how to proceed in BI world.
- D BI A Consulting
consulting@dbia.uk
Groupby -Power bi dashboard in hour by vishal pawar-Presentation Vishal Pawar
Power BI Dashboard in an hour with Various Slides.
Target Audience:
Useful for Develops and DBA those who want to know what is Power BI and How we can utilize various features.
Also session will be useful for anyone who wants learn Power BI from basic.
Abstract:
In this session, We will walk through various features of Power BI, How Power BI can transform your company’s data into rich visuals and Easy yet powerful Analytics solutions for your whole organization.
At end of session with following Power BI Dashboard example
sp_Blitz in Dashboard
SQL Server Info Dashboard
Twitter Dashboard
World Dashboard
Most important takeaways from session –
You will be learning basics of Power BI with the additional perk of analyzing sp_Blitz in Power BI.
Various features of Power BI making you from ZERO to HERO
After this session, you will be able to analyze data into Power BI
SQL Saturday Columbus 2014 PowerBI with SQL Excel and SharePointScott_Brickey
SQL has always enabled business intelligence through databases and analysis services. But working with them has historically required a development team. Learn how Microsoft's new suite of BI tools for Excel and SharePoint can put the power of business intelligence back into the hands of your power users.
Practical Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2013Ivan Sanders
This sessions provides an overview of the new features available to business users and the knowledge they need to start building their own Dashboards using the tools they already know Excel to implement Business Intelligence features they may not have used previously like SQL Analysis Service, SQL Reporting Services, PowerView, PowerPivot, and Excel Services
Explain about power BI Overview from Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server and Power BI Mobile that consume all BI Data from Dataset and datamodel
Starting in May 2010, with SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft began talking more and more about "Personal BI". The focus of this discussion was a paradigm shift moving business intelligence from being something a few BI professionals do with a data warehouse to a practice done by Information Workers every day in familiar tools like Microsoft Excel and SharePoint. Over the course of this session we will show you the improvements that Microsoft has made in the 2013 stack to take this new focus from being a “nice idea” to a truly powerful reality. We will explore the improvements made to Excel, PowerPivot & Power View, & Reporting Services. We will explain the underlying technology that makes the new features possible and walk through demos of some of the shinier toys. At the end of the session you will walk away with a better understanding of what is new in 2013 for business intelligence and an extreme desire to build reusable data model that will undoubtedly bring real value to your business.
Perth SharePoint User Group - Hybrid Cloud and Power BIBhavik Merchant
Covers the new version of Power BI, history on what the Microsoft offering were before this was released, features, pitfalls and transition considerations
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Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
Learn SQL from basic queries to Advance queriesmanishkhaire30
Dive into the world of data analysis with our comprehensive guide on mastering SQL! This presentation offers a practical approach to learning SQL, focusing on real-world applications and hands-on practice. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide provides the tools you need to extract, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
Key Highlights:
Foundations of SQL: Understand the basics of SQL, including data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation.
Advanced Queries: Learn to craft complex queries to uncover deep insights from your data.
Data Trends and Patterns: Discover how to identify and interpret trends and patterns in your datasets.
Practical Examples: Follow step-by-step examples to apply SQL techniques in real-world scenarios.
Actionable Insights: Gain the skills to derive actionable insights that drive informed decision-making.
Join us on this journey to enhance your data analysis capabilities and unlock the full potential of SQL. Perfect for data enthusiasts, analysts, and anyone eager to harness the power of data!
#DataAnalysis #SQL #LearningSQL #DataInsights #DataScience #Analytics
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Operational dashboarding and reporting with Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions
1. Operational Reporting and Dashboarding using Microsoft
Business Intelligence Solutions
John P White
jpw@unlimitedviz.com
@diverdown1964
http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com
3. Don’t forget the SharePint
Sponsored by
Imperial College Union Bar
6pm - 8pm
Beit Quadrangle, Prince Consort Road
One street up from SPS London
Don’t forget to get Beer Tokens….
13. Power BI
For Office 365PerformancePoint
SharePoint
Mashup
On Premises Cloud
Azure VMs
Power BI
(July 24)
14. ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY
RETURN HIS RAW DATA FROM THE DATABASE
15. Data Marts
Extract, Transform,
and Load (ETL)
Middleware
Server(s)
Data
Warehouse
Storage
Design and Visualization
Data Cubes and Tabular Models
E
T
L
Reporting
Server(s)
BI and Designer
Clients
Source
data
16. EE
SQL Server DB
SQL Server
Integration Services
(SSIS)
SharePoint (with)
• Excel Services
• PowerPivot for SharePoint
• SSRS SharePoint Mode
• PerformancePoint
SQL Server
DB
SQL Server Analysis
Services
Multidimensional and
Tabular modes
L
SQL Server
Reporting
Services
(SSRS)
Excel
SQL Data Tools
Report Builder
3rd party tools
E
T
Source
data
17. Worksheets
Tabular Data Model
(xVelocity)
Pivot Charts and
Tables
Power View
(Analytic reports)
Power Map
(Geospatial and time series data)
Power Pivot
(Model design)
Power Query (ETL)
Power Pivot Import (EL)
18. Power Pivot Worksheets
• Pivot Tables and Charts
• Power View
Data Marts and
other
Data Cubes and
Tabular Models
Standard Worksheets
• Pivot Tables and Charts
PerformancePoint Reports
• Analytic Charts and Grids
• Decomposition trees
SQL Server Reporting Services Reports
• Standard
• Power View
PerformancePoint Scorecards and KPIs
30. Data freshness
PowerPivot for
SharePoint*
Power BI
Real time Periodic Daily
SQL Server
Integration
Services
Power BI
* Hackable – For more granularity, see Ian Smith’s blog:
http://smithicus.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/using-a-custom-data-refresh-schedule-in-powerpivot-for-sharepoint/
A dashboard is a key piece of equipment.
There’s one in this Formula car – even though there’s no dash.
Driver is interested in a few things. In order, they are his location, his speed, his gear, and the condition of the critical parts of his vehicle
From the drivers viewport the “UI” prioritizes these items in order of importance
At a glance, these things can be discerned
But dashboards mean different things to different people
This is an old one from an old car, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
At a glance, you can determine the speed of the vehicle, how much fuel is available, and if there is something wrong.
This is likely about the oldest example of a KPI that I’ve ever seen as well
This dashboard is a little different
Granted, on this airplane, there are many more parameters to measure than on the old car.
All of that information is available, but it’s hard to spot
It’s not hard to spot if you have a trained eye
Pilots need immediate access to aircraft conditions, hence this complicated setup, but they are trained. It’s not complicated to them.
Dashboards have different design points for different audiences.
Here’s a newer one from a newer car
Speed is still the most important thing, but fuel is only important when there isn’t enough, so there is an alert.
The amount of fuel can still be seen, as can RPM, or optionally through configuration, a series of other parameters that the driver may be interested in.
We can also show other interesting information customized to the driver – in this case, the song that is currently playing.
The points are that
- we are monitoring the status of something
- We are (or should be) limited by the operator’s ability to absorb information or by the user interface
- We may be limited by the available data
Open the Dashboard Site
Overview Dashboard
Note the different measures
Open a few of the KPIs
Open GDP and KPI for Americas
Select Canada and note how the 3 graphs update
Select Financial Dashboard and select Canada
Next, select China Note the increase in GDP per Capita, and poverty
Open health dashboard. Select China - note the change in Child Mortality
Open education dashboard - use Europe data
Note that these were all built with different tools, and they all have different strengths. We will show how it's been done..
There are many products that make up the BI stack and many of them will be used one way or another in any dashboard project. What’s important is to understand what they are, and how they fit. In some cases, there are multiple ways to achieve the same goal, so the implications of using any should be understood.
The good news is that these all fit together into a few product groups. We’ll got through these today.
Keep in mind that in every case, SharePoint is the preferred publishing platform
SSRS is the only exception – it can be hosted on its own, but significant advantages are there for SharePoint
These approaches are not mutually exclusive, and in some cases can’t be. For example, SharePoint Mashups will depend on content from any or all of Excel, SSRS, PerformancePoint, or other SharePoint content.
We’re going to walk through all of these today with the exception of Azure VMs. Azure VMs take the same approach as on-prem, they’re just hosted in the cloud – the “private cloud”
No matter which approach we take, they all have the same basic underpinnings. These are based on fundamental BI concepts that need to be understood. So let’s dive in.
First and foremost, there is one fundamental Business Intelligence rule that must be adhered to.
Business Intelligence is all about the data, but that doesn’t mean that you just wire up Excel to source data and start Extracting (although far too many people do). This is bad for a number of reason
- Security – data level access to production data
- Usability – difficult to understand constructs (Great Plains anyone?)
- Performance – reporting against the production data concentrates the load.
- Organization – data optimized for transactions, not reporting
Instead of querying our source systems directly, we want to take our data and move it into Data Warehouses and data marts, which are optimized for the sorts of analysis that we want to perform. This is done through an ETL operation.
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The data is extracted from the source system, CLICK transformed into the shape we need it, CLICK then loaded into the data warehouse. CLICK Other ETL processes or cube process will load the data into any necessary marts, cubes or models.
From here various servers and client will access the data, usually from the data marts of cubes, but occasionally from the warehouse directly.
So how does this translate to the Microsoft stack? There are two ways. The Enterprise, or “classic” BI method, or the Power (personal) method.
Starting with the classic method, SQL Server Integration Services is the tool that performs our ETL.
SQL Server Database Engine is used for the storage of the data warehouses and data marts
SQL Server Analysis Services is the multidimensional engine (traditional OLAP cubes) and now is the engine for enterprise tabular models (xVelocity).
SSRS is the traditional server engine for serving reports, and can be deployed either standalone, or through SharePoint.
These tools all ship on SQL server media, but some (SSRS and PowerPivot for SharePoint) may be deployed to SharePoint
Clients of this infrastructure may be servers themselves, or designers and Power Users. Consuming tools include Excel, SQL Server Data Tools, Excel Services, PowerPivot for SharePoint, or a host of other tools.
Recently, there has been a lot of work in the Personal BI space – so how does that compare to this approach? Fundamental BI concepts still apply.
To start with, we have an Excel Workbook. Excel is the personal BI client from Microsoft. As of the 2010 version (through an add-in), or Excel 2013 directly we have access to an embedded xVelocity data model.
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Using the PowerPivot add-in (needs to be enabled) we can import data directly from the source data systems, and then manipulate the structure, but the data is read only. It can be refreshed, but not edited. Really, we have the E and the L of an ETL system.
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More recently, Power Query has been introduced. It’s a part of Power BI, but in this context it’s just a free Excel add-in that brings more elegance to the import. It puts the T back into ETL on the personal side. It has a host of other features, and different data source options, but that’s fundamentally what it is. Power Query can also load data directly into the workbook, into the model, or both.
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Once the data has been loaded it can be consumed through a number of Excel tools. The traditional multi dimensional tools are the Pivot chart and Pivot table, but we now also have Power View for analytical reporting, and Power Map for geospatial analysis. PowerPivot is the model editor.
Be careful with Power Query. It cant be automatically refreshed. Yet.
All of these approaches, both enterprise and personal converge through SharePoint and dashboards.
Within SharePoint, we can publish reports and data models, and establish connections to the relevant back end systems. These components can then be used to construct dashboards, or used on their own as dashboards.
Dashboards can contain, but are not necessarily limited to
Worksheets and worksheet components through Excel Services, either directly connected or via PowerPivot
SSRS Reports
PerformancePoint scorecards and KPIs
PerformancePoint reports
There are different tools for different tasks, and SharePoint is no exception.
Given that we can mashup resources from a number of different products, its no surprise that we need to use several tools to accomplish it.
We’re going to have a quick look at most of these in turn, and we’ll start with Reporting Services
There are lots of things to worry about… this is what comes up frequently that doesn’t fit into a technical demo
- People sometimes get hung up on per user authentication
- “You can’t do BI without Kerberos” – which is wrong
- In many cases, this is simply not true. Service accounts can impersonate end users down the chain.
SSRS has SetUser(), Excel Services and PerformancePoint support EffectiveuserName against multidimensional
BISM supports impersonation in SSRS Power View
No per User auth of any sort with PowerBI – control through document security
- Depending on the tool, data freshness may be an issue
Latency between data source and data mart
Latency between data mart and data models
What is “Real enough” time?
There is a trade off between freshness and cost
There are BI Tools for Real Time
Data is like food. Not everything needs to be fresh….
SSRS, which we use to power the ETL, uses SQL ‘s agent jobs to run on a schedule. These are quite granular, down to the minute level. Any tools leveraging the data marts/cubes directly can be that fresh. However, constant runs are resource intensive
PowerPivot for SharePoint can be scheduled for refresh daily. This is also true for refreshes in Power BI using the Data Management Gateway, although both can be refreshed on demand.
There is a hack for PP4 SP
If Real Time analysis is actually necessary, there are tools available. StreamInsight for ETL, and DirectQuery for tabular models.
So what do we need to make all of this work?
Just because it comes from SQL doesn’t mean it belongs there.
Power BI is an odd duck. It’s from 2 quadrants.
Reporting Services is the only one that works well with Standard Edition SharePoint
Excel and PerformancePoint require SharePoint Enterprise
PowerPivot requires BI Edition or Enterprise SQL Server
Power BI is an additional Office 365 licence on top of E3
- What does the future hold?
Almost all development efforts are going into the Power stack
Reporting Services still fills and important niche, and is relatively complete
PerformancePoint? If Excel gets features, it’s redundant
I like the model deployment from Excel to SSAS. Is Power Query far behind?