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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
Explicit Measures Podcast96: Diving Into The Trend in Analytical Data Modeling for Power BI
We have an amazing article that the guys dived into by Iteration Insights (Thanks to Steve Richardson) - article here…
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95: Grouping In Power BI
The guys are back from vacation! Jumping right into it, there are quite a few ways grouping works in Power BI, from visual grouping to field grouping, but is…
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94: People, Process, & Technology - Integrating A Complete Power BI Solution
It doesn't matter if you have the best design skillset in the world, or if you can develop DAX Measures people couldn't even dream about. It doesn't matter if…
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93: Mailbag - Documentation Solutions in Power BI - How Much Or Too Little?
Today is coming from a mailbag! The focus - How do people document their Power BI Solutions? What should included / not included, and when does the…
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92: Do We Like The New Power BI Formatter Pane?
What a perfect day to release our episode! March 2022 Power BI is out, and the major release is the new formatting pane. What are our thoughts, what has…
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91: Power BI Worlds - Consulting vs. In-House Work
One Power BI, two different worlds? You love Power BI, but you may have a vastly different viewpoint and experience in the platform depending where you work…
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90: The Importance of Drill-Through in Power BI
The guys dive into the use cases of Drill-Through in Power BI - from single zoom-in's all the way to using cross-report drill-through for Direct Query Reports…
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89: DAX Hacks for Power BI
The guys share their deepest, darkest, maybe not best practices in Power BI's DAX language. From the value of Calculated Columns to Tabular Editor 3's DAX…
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88: If I Had $100... Power BI Visuals Edition
if you had $100 to spend on improving the visuals and the experience building our visuals in #PowerBI Reports, where would your money go? The guys break down…
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87: Getting Power BI Authors To Conform To Best Practices
You have a great process developing and deploying Power BI Reports. I am sure you do. But what about your team? Do they follow the same rules, methods, and…
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86: What Do Incentives Mean in a Power BI Center of Excellence & Community of Practice
The guys are back and dive into what it means and how important it is to reward, provide goals, and setting up a Center of Excellence that motivates the people…
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85: What Does Ownership Mean?
The guys are back (episode 84 is coming on Tuesday) with a talk on ownership - a conversation in need of discussion in the Power BI space. Who owns what, and…
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83: Are We Building the Wrong Power BI Reports?
By far one of the most engaged conversations the guys have had: We constantly evaluate if a report is "correct" or relevant for the users. When consumers come…
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82: Export Everything - Managing Power BI Exported Data
The guys run through all the ways data can be exported from Power BI, with a few hot takes in between on is it always a positive outcome from consumers. What…
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81: Our Most Productive Methods Using Power BI
The guys run through what it means to be productive in Power BI. Is it output, learning, or solutions? How to estimate your work, how to stay productive…
Explicit Measures Podcast80: External Tools In Power BI - Their Role for the Pro
If you consider yourself a master of the Power BI arts, there is a good chance you have used and know about External Tools in Power BI. If you have not, then…
Explicit Measures Podcast79: The Most Important DAX Functions In Power BI
The guys discuss a contested topic: What are the MOST IMPORTANT DAX functions in Power BI, and can they even rank them? What makes specific functions…
Explicit Measures Podcast78: Talking About Incremental Refresh
The guys run through what Incremental Refresh is, why use it, and implications for how can impact your process. Mike gives a master class on advanced uses on…
Explicit Measures Podcast77: Do We Have Too Much Interactivity In Our Power BI Reports? Simplifying Layouts & Interaction
The guys talk through why our reports get complicated, and if we add more elements and objects than needed. What causes this, and how much has to do with the…
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76: Getting Your Feet Wet Doing Your First Power BI Presentation
No matter if you have never spoken before, presented once, or never have before, the guys share their own stories and tips on how they started speaking on…
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75: Integration with Other Servies - Our Power BI Success Stories
The guys are focusing on all the ways that we connect to Power BI - Basic (SQL), Advanced (API), Frustrating (Dynamics), and Future (Databricks). What have…
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74: Reviewing Matthew Roche's Article - Problem Domain, Solution Domain
If you have not heard of Matthew Roche in the Power BI Space, it is time you get familiar with his blog and especially his series of articles on the Problem…
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73: Power BI Analyst 2.0
This is one of our more interesting topics. Based on this article by Toward's Data Science, the current iteration of the Analyst (In our case, the Power BI…
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72: Knowing Your Audience When Building Power BI Reports
What are the different levels of users when building a report? What are they, and how do you approach each? What are the problems with audience types if you…
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71: Power BI Licenses
The guys are back focusing on Power BI Licenses - what is the scale, the differences, and what should you look for? Think this could be a boring topic? Or…
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70: Our Power BI Resolutions
The guys are rounding out the year with what else? Resolutions! Can we stick to them? The guys share our #PowerBI resolutions for the upcoming year. What do we…
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69: Who's Leaking Power BI Data?
Based & inspired by an article by Bernat Agullo Rosello, the guys are back from Christmas focusing on what should be considered leaked data in Power BI. Who is…
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68: Our Power BI Secret Santa
It is holiday time! The guys are giving Power BI gifts to each other, ideal features and tools that we would love to have and use. What features or tools are…
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67: Report & Model Labels In Power BI
How important are data labels in Power BI, and where are they actually found? The guys focus in on their role, if they are underrated, and what is model label…
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66: What Should be Required for a Power BI Certified vs. Promoted Dataset?
We are having some fun with endorsements! There should be the utmost importance around what a certified dataset, but what should qualify one? The guys actually…
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65: Continually Improving Users Experience in Power BI
We have talked extensively about what a Power BI Report is, but what is that experience for the users? How do we ensure that our consumers are actively using…
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64: Talking About Power BI Themes
Let's face it: You are not an expert on Color Theory. It is a common challenge that most Power BI Professionals struggle with design and color theory (we like…
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63: 7 Reasons DAX Is Not Easy - A Review of SQLBI's Explanation
An amazing new article by Marco Russo from SQLBI focuses on the complexities and pitfalls around the DAX language in Power BI. He outlines 7 unique reasons why…
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62: Power BI Data Culture - Can We Measure Success?
A highly trending buzz word around Power BI is Data Culture. Growing, improving, and establishing a data culture is essential, and thanks to Melissa Coates'…
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61: Trolling the ideas.PowerBI.com Site
The guys have some more fun and look to what can we can look forward to in new Power BI features, or more so what they want to see become reality for Power BI…
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60: Formal vs. Self Training - Is There a Mix or Best Solution for Power BI Users?
Happy Thanksgiving! The guys talk about their experience learning Power BI and what options are available for users nowadays. While the guys had more…
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59: What Are We Most Looking Forward To On the Power BI Roadmap
Microsoft recently announced the Power Platform Release Wave v2 for the upcoming months, and we could not wait to get our hands on it! The guys talk about what…
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58: The Power BI Service Feature Draft!
It's Draft Day! But not just any draft, the guys are taking the best of the best from the Power BI service and compete with each other for the best features…
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57: What is the Role of Power BI Paginated Reports
The guys talk about the November 2021 of Power BI, along with the next user group schedule among others. The big topic: Paginated Reports have been around for…
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56: What's In Your Power BI Report Checklist
Let's face it: Some of what we do in building reports can be mundane and repetitive. Other items we may miss that will effect the quality of the report…
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55: Why is Power Query in Power BI Underrated?
The guys talk through out of all the tools available in Power BI, why can Power Query be the least known? It is a POWERFUL component of the Power BI Skill…
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54: The Role of the Help Desk for Power BI
What is the role of the Help Desk for Power BI? How should they behave, and why are there no templates for Business Intelligence Help Desks (looking at you…
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53: Power BI Governance Part 3: Challenges, People, and Running a Governance Program
The guys are rounding out their series on Power BI Governance with Part 3 - what are the challenges involved, how do you get people on board, and the overall…
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52: Short Term vs. Long Term Solutions for Power BI Solutions
Dealing with a client or a project, a #powerbi report build or any data solution, how do we handle understanding the “ideal” approach vs. What is possible? The…
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51: Workspace Planning In Power BI: How Do You Do It?
How do you do Power BI workspace planning? Using the Melissa Coates article on planning Workspace and Criteria's, the guys discuss what goes into the role of a…
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50: Nifty Fifty - Wrong Answers Only & The Best Power BI Jokes
We made it to fifty (50!). To celebrate, the guys are taking a step back from technical deep dives, as they curated the best of the best Power BI jokes, memes…
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49: Power BI Governance Part 2 - Vision, Strategy, & Staffing
The guys are diving into Power BI Governance Part 2: Vision, Strategy, and Staffing. Again, we are using the amazing Microsoft Adoption Roadmap, focusing on…
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48: Power BI Automated Insights First Thoughts
The guys are still in Houston talking through the Community Summit 2021. Alot of Dynamics folks at the conference, where does Power BI fit into that story?…
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47: When I Failed at Building a Power BI Report!
Mike & Tommy are live in Houston for the Community Summit NA 2021! Let's face it. We have all failed at building and delivering solutions via data to our…
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46: Adding the Final Touches to a Power BI Report
Anyone building Power BI Reports knows the amount of intricate tasks that are involved from data source to visuals in a Report. But what are the final…
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45: Talking Governance in Power BI - Part 1
This is the first part of what we believe will be at least a 3-part series on Governance in Power BI. Future Governance episodes will be released later in the…
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44: Jack of All Trades or Master of One - Skills In Power BI
We have a mailbag topic! In the Power BI Space, there are more than enough areas of expertise that require skill and knowledge on. I am going from DAX all the…
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43: Reviewing Goals In the Power BI Service
The last couple of weeks the Power BI team at Microsoft has released some major improvements to Goals in the Power BI Service (see articles below). With this…
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42: How Do You Resolve Power BI Technical Debt?
Technical Debt. The concept of buildup of unscalable solutions that causes rework in a solution, and eventually catch up on you. Anyone in the Power BI Space…
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41: How Do You Clean Power BI Models? Tools and Approaches
It does not matter if you are just starting off in Power BI or a season veteran, or even an all-star: You are going to run into complications with your models…
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40: I Had $100.... Spending Our Budget On The Power BI Service
One of our more favorite segments, we imagine Microsoft gave us $100 to spend on however we want to enhance the Power BI Service. Where would we have the…
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39: Where Does Power BI Mobile Fit Into the Story?
We know how important phones and tablets are to our culture. This is the same for companies and users. Microsoft continually enhances the Power BI mobile…
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38: The Importance of Communication for a Power BI Pro
Today's episode is all about the importance of communication skills for a Power BI Professional. First and foremost, why are even talking about communication…
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37: Composite Models and Reusing DAX Measures and Objects in Power BI
With some of the major new features available to connect to live datasets in Power BI (Direct Query on Analysis Services) that allows a Power BI report connect…
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36: Developing Insights When There Are None - How To Create Insights In Power BI For an Organization
Based on this amazing article by Microsoft on how they developed their corporate KPI's, the guys wanted to run with it and talk about how any Power BI Pro can…