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31 episodes
since Jan. 20, 2025
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Olena Kulish runs digital analytics at the National Council on Aging, where every dollar spent on tooling has to be justified to donors. We talk about why she ran a pilot instead of going all in, how hard it is to guess capacity during a 60-day trial, and having to rebuild everything when the regio…

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Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan and I worked together at Truviz a few years back, but this is our first real conversation since she became a two-time competitor in the Power BI DataViz World Championship and a recent Microsoft MVP. We talk about building reports people actually use versus passion proje…
Kellyn Gorman is back for a reappraisal, this time on AI. We get into how you're the product, not the customer: what "help improve our models" actually means, plus real stories of companies dumping loan PII and entire product roadmaps into free ChatGPT. Kellyn walks through her resea…
In this episode Aleksi Partanen about certifications, learning Fabric, and community. We talk about the Fabric certs and how much value they do or do not provide. We talk about community and motivations for being involved and cultivating communities.YouTube: Aleksi Partanen – Master Microsoft Fabri…
Fatima Jallow, a data consultant based in Stockholm, helps us understand data movement in Fabric and when to use pipelines and dataflows. We talk about how pipelines specialize in orchestration. She shares with us her journey from executive assistant to data architect. Finally she talks about some …
Simon Sabin talks about how SQL Bits picks sessions when the data world keeps splintering into more tools. We talk about the tension between Fabric and the older stack people still use at work, and why session selection has to cover both. We also talk about why discernment is the skill you need wit…
Sandeep Pawar talks about Python notebooks in Microsoft Fabric and why Power BI developers should learn them. We talk about semantic link as the entry point for Power BI developers into Python, and how notebooks open up solutions for orchestration, monitoring, and administration that are hard to do…
In this episode, Shannon Lindsay from the Microsoft Community team joins me to talk about, well, community! We talk about her trajectory from non-profit space, to Power BI developer, to Microsoft employee. We go over how social media is fragmented and the joy of finding your friends. Dunbar's…
In this episode, Shabnam Watson talks about dealing with Fabric overwhelm and how her bureaucratic experiences with Azure and Synapse motivated her to learn Fabric. She talks about how it's important to focus on finding a way that works with the tool instead of finding the "best" way…
In this episode, Microsoft MVP Prathy K talks about her journey into Microsoft Fabric from her MSBI background. She explains how Fabric felt like "coming home" since she could map SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS concepts to new tools. We discuss how medallion architecture is really just rebranded da…
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