by Melissa Coates | Jun 24, 2017 | SQL Chick
I must admit right up front: I’m more than a little obsessed with naming conventions. Prefixes…suffixes…I really enjoy coming up with the optimal convention to use so that a name is at least somewhat self-documenting without being horribly long. In...
by Rob Collie | Jun 22, 2017 | PowerPivotPro
This past week in Seattle, I presented at the Microsoft Data Insights Summit. It was an intense week – I co-presented a full-day preconference session on Sunday, gave a talk on Monday, and then two more talks on Tuesday. Then… The post My Favorite All-Time Talk is...
by Gil Raviv | Jun 21, 2017 | Data Chant
Follow @gilra In today’s post, we will continue to review the claims against Power BI (as was published by Tableau here), and demystify three more claims. This post first appeared at https://datachant.com/2017/06/21/8-ways-power-bi-falls-short-not/. The author is Gil...
by Chris Webb | Jun 20, 2017 | Chris Webb
I’m pleased to announce that a white paper I co-authored with Melissa Coates on “Planning a Power BI enterprise deployment” has now been published. You can download it from the Power BI white papers site here: https://aka.ms/pbienterprisedeploy Melissa has already...
by Gil Raviv | Jun 20, 2017 | Data Chant
This isn’t going to be a typical comparison between two different solutions. I am not objective here. In a different lifetime, I might have become a great advocate for the other solution. After all, it has great visualizations, and a fantastic community of...