Pittsburgh Power BI Group

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About us Stephanie Bruno Kiley Pollio Eugene Meidinger ‎‎Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation - Data Architecture Manager Steph.Bruno@Gmail.com Kiley Pollio Microsoft - Senior Consultant – Data Insights Kiley.Pollio@Microsoft.com Eugene Meidinger All Lines Technology - BI Consultant emeidinger@all-lines-tech.com

Power BI User Group We meet every third Thursday Join the the Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-Power-BI-Meetup/ Sign up for the global user group site http://www.pbiusergroup.com/home Do you want to be a speaker? Please suggest topics?

Power BI Desktop New Features March 2017 Update (2.44.4675.422) Report View: New matrix visual (Preview) [video] [article] [blog] Numeric range slicer (Preview) [video] [article] [blog] Data labels on pie and donut visuals - percent of total [video] [blog] Cross-highlight using multiple series [video] [blog] Textbox - ability to choose font color [video] [blog] Report theming (Preview) [video] [article] [blog] Analytics: Clustering - now generally available [video] [blog] Data Connectivity: New or enhanced data connectors [video]: Azure Analysis Services database (Beta) [blog] Azure Data Lake Store - now generally available [blog] DB2 connector - option to specify package collection [video] [blog] Combine binaries - specify a sample file to use [video] [blog] Query Editing improvements Split column by delimiter - automatic detection of delimiter character [video] [blog] https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-march-feature-summary/

Microsoft Data Insights Summit Register - Data Insight Summit The Microsoft Data Insights Summit is a user conference for business analysts designed to help you identify deeper insights, make better sense of your data, and take action to transform your business.  You’ll have access to the product teams behind Microsoft’s business intelligence tools — ask your toughest questions and learn best practices. Discover the latest trends, tools, and product roadmaps at hands-on workshops and speaker sessions featuring experts in the community.  Learn how you can lead your business through real digital transformation—register now!

Pittsburgh SQL Saturday Saturday September 30th 2017 at Pittsburgh Technology College

MSFTGUEST Wireless Connection Instructions: • Make sure your wireless adapter is set to dynamically obtain an IP address • Connect to the wireless network MSFTGUEST • Open a browser and navigate to a web site to be redirected to the Captive Portal • Click on Event Attendee Code and enter the access code: msevent15xa

Next Month Introduction to PowerQuery Date: April 20th, 2017 Details: Are you sick of cleaning up data by hand? PowerQuery, also known as the M language, allow for making repeatable changes to your data. Practically anything you could do by hand, you can do quicker and easier with PowerQuery. We will cover gathering data, merging tables, pivoting columns, adding custom logic and more!

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