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We've all screwed something up, haven't we? Assembling Ikea furniture, reverse parking.. presenting at a Power BI user group. Our presenter, Ben Oastler, was an early adopter of Power BI and thus had to learn a lot of things the hard way. In this presentation, Ben will run you through lessons learnt around the Data Gateway, BI prototyping, report development and deployment, customer engagement and more. Come along to this session to learn about some of the best and worst Power BI Practices.

Ben Oastler has been working in Business Intelligence for over 15 years. Specializing in the Microsoft BI Stack and a long career history in healthcare, Ben has implemented and managed BI solutions across 3 major hospitals in Australia and since joining BizData in 2017, has worked across many other industries. In 2018 Microsoft Gold Partners, BizData opened their New York City office, and Ben took up the role as Analytics Director for the North American region. Click here to join the NY/NJ Power BI Public User Group and get more event information.

Organizer: Kathy Kinnier

The new composite models in Power BI introduced a new type of relationship cardinality called many-to-many. Nevertheless, despite their name, they are not many-to-many relationships, they are relationships between tables generated at a different granularity.
In this session we clarify the purpose of the relationships with many-to-many cardinality, highlighting the significant difference with canonical many-to-many relationships. In the meantime, we show how and when to use the different kind of many-to-many relationships with several practical examples.

Our guest speaker, Marco Russo, is a business intelligence consultant and mentor. He wrote several books with Alberto Ferrari about Power BI, Analysis Service, and Power Pivot. They also regularly write articles and white papers that are available on www.sqlbi.com. Marco is a Microsoft MVP. Today, Marco focuses his time with SQLBI customers, traveling extensively to train and consult on DAX and data modeling for Power BI and Analysis Services. Marco also teaches public classes worldwide. Click here to join the NY/NJ Power BI Public User Group and get more event information.

Organizer: Kathy Kinnier