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Explicit Measures Podcast
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? Build the toolset, learn the how, and then come to the Podcast to the listen to the why in…
Episodes
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215: Visual Enhancements - Title Divider & Subtitle in Power BI Visuals
Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss the recently released visual feature added to Power BI titles: the ability to add a title divider and the subtitle. How important…
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214: Collaboration in the Data Exploration Journey
Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss how important is, and will be collaboration in Power BI & data exploration moving forward. How do we identify who to collaborate…
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213: Special Edition! Modeling On the Web with Microsoft's Emily Lisa
We have a special edition podcast! Mike, Seth, & Tommy interview Emily Lisa from Microsoft on the amazing, brand new modeling on the web feature now available…
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212: Why We Need Low-Code / No-Code Options for Data
Mike, Seth, & Tommy break down an the influx of low-code / no-code options available for organizations and how this changes the data landscape. From tribal…
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211: Data Communication & Power BI
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into an incredible concept / article by Kat Greenbook on what is Data Communication... 3 areas: To Discover To Inform To Educate…
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210: How to Dissect Someone Else's Power BI Report
We are breaking down a great video by EnterpriseDNA's Sam McKay focuses on complex reports with great style and understanding the techniques. What should a…
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209: Conditional Formatting in Power BI - How Critical Is It?
Mike, Seth & Tommy discuss the merits of using conditional formatting in Power BI reports and just what and how much of a impact they can make. Can formatting…
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208: The Future of Business Intelligence Part 2 - Entering the Next Age of Data
Our episode today picks up right where we left off to finish this 2-part series based on Ryan Dolley's series of articles. If you missed part 1, check it out…
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207: Storyframing And Storyforming - Two Essential Steps That Precede Data Storytelling
If you have had the chance to read the book Effective Data Storytelling by Brent Dykes, you are going to love this conversation today. Mike, Seth, & Tommy…
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206: The Future of Business Intelligence Part 1 - The End of Supply Chain Analytics
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into an amazing two part series (part 2 is next week) on how BI has evolved and the hot take that we are exiting an era of BI as we…
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205: Business Metrics, or Raising the Bar On Delivering Insight
We have an excellent article by Ben Watt, MVP, on how to incorporate, integrate, and build business metrics into our reports. Why are business metrics…
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204: Options for Source Control In Power BI
With the announcement of TMDL and new deployment pipelines features, where do we go from here? Where does Source Control exist for Power BI Developers and what…
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203: 'It Depends' - Best Practices & Optimization for Models
We live in a world of Best Practices and learning best practices for Power BI. It is ingrained in us and from documentation to learning. However, the idea that…
Explicit Measures Podcast202: Defining What Success Is For Power BI Administrators
Mike, Seth, & Tommy have a spirted conversation focused on what the role of a Power BI Admin should encompass, what is in their scope, and what difference they…
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201: What AI Knows About Data Visualization & Storytelling
We are diving into another amazing article that challenges what impact AI will have on the work of creating visuals and being able to create reports. Where is…
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200: Discovering On-Object Editing in Power BI
We made it to 200! And what better way to summarize why we love what we do is discuss a new game hanging feature to Power BI and how ALL developers will build…
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199: Defining the Business Problem - Creating Measures From Scratch
Who owns the metrics, the BI team or business? So often we are dealing with static, general data, but should Business Intelligence place a more active role in…
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198: Dealing With Power BI Errors
Let's face it: We are all too familiar with some of the error notifications and icons in developing Power BI Models. From Power Query to DAX syntax errors, or…
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197: The Power Automate Visual - How Important Is It?
Mike, Seth, and Tommy discuss why the Power Automate visual in Power BI does not get enough love and what can make it essential to the developer's toolbelt…
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196: Are Power BI Champions Integral to Adoption?
We last discussed the role of Power BI Champions in episode 180, and continuing on this topic.... Just how important are they? Do Champions make or break your…
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195: Use Cases for New Updates to Paginated Reports
The guys discuss some nifty new updates to Power BI paginated reports (in the service) and how they impact current projects. Create exportable paginated…
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194: Has Business Intelligence Stalled?
We love the community, and nothing else spurs conversation than an article like the following from Randy Bean…
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193: How To Build Data Literacy In Your Company
As a follow up to episode 191 (link here), we are diving into this article on building data literacy and growing the required skills not just for you, but for…
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192: Are Power BI Metrics & Scorecards A Must-Use Now?
If we really were to say where Microsoft is putting their money, looking at major releases alone you would have to say the Power BI Metric / Scorecard feature…
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191: Data Storytelling Is the Conduit for Modern Data Literacy
We have an AMAZING article that from Mara Pometti, really rocks the cradle in regards to what data storytelling is and why it matters to get it right if you…
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190: Do Power BI Reports Need to Be Beautiful?
What is the line between a professional and well-designed report and a beautiful report? Do our Power BI Reports need to be designed to perfection, ready to be…
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189: The Manipulation of Data By Other Teams
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into how to manage the wild world of unstructured data. How do we manage, control, and allow when teams can edit or modify data that…
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188: Mailbag! When to Use Excel Over Power BI?
We have another mailbag! The guys discuss the following: Is there a time when I should use Excel over Power BI? The situation I am thinking about is when I…
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187: 21 Mind Traps in BI
Watch this video first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYYkRaU0xh8 How does the 21 mind traps video relate to us in the Power BI world? Mike, Seth, & Tommy…
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186: DataOps in For Power BI
Mike, Seth, and Tommy dive into DataOps processes and methods and how much they should be integrated with Power BI developers. Links…
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185: Mythical Man-Month: The Second System Effect
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive back into the Mythical Man-Month series and tackle the idea of the Second System Effect and how it relates to Power BI development…
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184: Is an Analytical Engineer a BI Developer?
Based on this tweet: Andy Cutler on Twitter: "Is an Analytics Engineer a BI Developer? All the skills I’m seeing align with that." / Twitter What is an…
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183: Should We Have More Icons & Buttons In Our Reports?
Mike, Seth, & Tommy look at their practices to see if there is a larger need in our reports for more user interaction on the canvas itself. We struggle with…
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182: Learning By Doing - Using Sample Reports & Database for Growing Your Skills
Inspired by Kurt Buhler (DataGoblins), Mike, Seth, & Tommy review how essential sample data, dummy reports, and messing around with non-business forward…
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181: Should We Always Hide Power BI Objects?
Mike, Seth, & Tommy pick up a potentially contentious topic... Should ALL Power BI models have certain objects hidden from the report view? While there are…
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180: Power BI Champions Deep Dive
The guys have extensively covered the Power BI Adoption roadmap and strategies, but one missing piece not truly reviewed is the importance of what are…
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179: Searching In Power BI Desktop - A Must-Use Feature?
Coming off the winds of an earlier episode, just how important is it for any report author to not just get familiar with searching in Power BI Desktop, but…
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178: Why Power BI Is So Difficult
Mike, Seth, & Tommy talk through a conversation from Tim Warner, a Content Developer at Microsoft. The crux of the argument revolves around the amount of…
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177: Where do the DAX Window Functions Fit Into Our Existing Processes?
If you missed the December 2022 Power BI update, you missed a potentially altering way we think about DAX measures! Three new functions were released that…
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176: Should We Be Utilizing Report Subscriptions More?
You have seen Microsoft update the subscription feature recently, and the guys review this potentially underutilized feature and how could it be brought to the…
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175: How Do you QA Power BI Assets?
Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss a question asked on Twitter revolving on ensuring the highest quality of reports, content, and data from a team of developers…
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174: Push Sources to Power BI or MDM?
We got a mailbag! Here is the question: How strict should one be to always push new data sources through our framework before we build tabular models. When and…
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173: Dear Satya
Mike, Seth, & Tommy write letters to Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft on their wishes for Power BI, and where the biggest needs are. Get in touch: Send in…
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172: Display Folders or Measure Tables in Power BI?
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into a common but hard-to-find feature in Power BI - Display Folders or Measure Tables for our DAX Measures? What is the cost and…
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171: Does Power BI Need a Figma Design System?
Based off this article on Bibb.pro...https://www.bibb.pro/post/why-business-intelligence-needs-a-figma-design-system Does BI "require" a Figma design system?…
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170: Plan To Throw One Away
The guys go back to the Mythical Man Month and speaking on an important topic: Plan to Throw One Away. The idea back in the day and still true now is why do…
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169: BI or Change Management?
The guys discuss two great articles around if the skill and success of Power BI resolves around Change management abilities…
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168: Too Many Systems for Our Power BI Process - Deciding on The Right Tools for Projects
Microsoft has fully become a player in the data industry. From Power BI (obviously) to Azure, Machine learning, Purview, Synapse, Power Apps.... Just in Power…
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167: Security Groups in Power BI - Where Does it Work?
We are talking about Security Groups in Power BI with an introduction to where it works. And for those of you who this sounds boring: trust us, there is more…
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166: DAX For Style
Taking a different approach to DAX, the language and toolbelt of the DAX language goes far beyond just crunching numbers. What can DAX do to enhance the report…
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165: What Makes a Visual Confusing?
We are going back into the Enrico Bertini well of amazing insights. On the surface, the question of what makes a visual confusing is simple. But do we have a…
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164: Defining Corporate Data
The growth of self-service and fast moving data has lead to the lack of what is defined as corporate data. What comes from the top, and should we treat this…
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163: Data Modeling Semantics
Based on a post on LinkedIn, arguing that data modeling has become a "second class citizen" and no longer paired with business concepts from day 1 of…
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162: The Mythical Man-Month & Power BI Development
Based on a link from Paul Turley's blog (and an episode on getting your data into shape). The idea behind this is observations from software engineers not…
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161: Power BI as Part of Office Installer
Microsoft has released a bombshell to the entire Office 365 ecosystem: Power BI Desktop is included with the Office Installer. What implications and effects…
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160: Power BI Roadmap Suggested Timeline of Events
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into a new diagram on the suggestion for implementing the Power BI Adoption Roadmap, from getting familiar to success. Do they agree?…
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159: Data Thinking Gaps in Power BI
Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into an amazing article by Enrico Bertini, on what Data Thinking and the gaps there. What is the importance of critical thinking in…
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158: Exploring App Audiences in Power BI
Another amazing article by Data Goblins on utilizing the features in Apps, Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss the alternate ways to use the audiences as a content…
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157: Why Communities Fail
Have you ever seen a community fall apart, or lose its luster? In the context of Power BI, we are part of many communities, but why do some lose their…
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156: The Trough of Disillusionment
Adoption & Promotion... Using @Gartner_inc "Trough of Disillusionment", what should Power BI Pros expect and can we avoid this at our organizations? Article…