1. Power BI Dashboards SQL Saturday Providence, Rhode Island Saturday December 12, 2015

2. About Me 2  Todd Chittenden ‐ Business Intelligence Architect at Blum Shapiro Consulting ‐ BS Marine Engineering - U.S. Merchant Marine Academy ‐ Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert  SQL Server Business Intelligence ‐ Frequent speaker at SQL Saturday and User Groups ‐ Lacrosse and Football Referee so I know how to control rowdy groups! ‐ Twitter: @ToddChitt; LinkedIn: ToddChitt ‐ http://blog.blumshapiro.com/

4. What is a “Dashboard”? A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. -Stephen Few (March 20. 2004) “Dashboard Confusion” Intelligent Enterprise

5. Characteristics, broken down  Visual and consistent displays  The information shown is tied to a specific objective  Consolidated, single screen  Convey the message ‘at a glance’

6. A Dashboard is NOT:  Something for data exploration and analysis  A portal  A Scorecard  Required to be ‘web-based’  Broad focused for all audiences

7. Common Mistakes in Dashboard Design  Exceeding the boundaries of a single screen  Supplying inadequate context for the data  Displaying excessive detail or precision  Expressing measures indirectly  Choosing inappropriate display media  Introducing meaningless variety  Using poorly designed display media  Encoding quantitative data incorrectly  Arranging information poorly  Highlighting important information ineffectively or not at all  Cluttering the display with visual effects  Misusing or overusing color  Designing an unattractive visual display - Stephen Few Information Dashboard Design

8. Today’s Agenda  Review John Miner’s presentation  Sign up for and explore Power BI  Demo: Publishing from the Power BI Desktop  Demo: Dashboards in Power BI  Free vs Pro Subscription features  Sharing and Collaboration comparisons  Demo: Refreshing Data  Demo: Sharing, Workspaces, Content Packs  Demo: Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI Dashboard  Questions

9. 9 Point your Browser to the Power BI site

10. Sign Up for Power BI Free Edition 10

11. 11 Dashboards Reports Datasets Let’s explore from the ground up

12. 12 A Sample Google Analytics Dashboard

13. 13 Sample Report page from Dynamics CRM

14. Demo  Publishing a PBIX file to Power BI  Creating a Dashboard  Working with Dashboards, Tiles, and the UI  Working with Visual Interactions *  Exploring Q&A on a Dashboard

15. Free vs Pro Subscriptions https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing GeneralFreePro Data Capacity Limit1 GB/user10 GB/user Create, view and share dashboards and reportsYes Author content with Power BI DesktopYes Explore dashboards with Natural Language Q&AYes Explore dashboards on mobile devicesYes Consume curated content packs (Dynamics, Salesforce, etc.)Yes Import data and reports from Excel, CSV, Power BI DesktopYes Data Refresh Consume content that is scheduled to refreshDailyHourly Consume streaming data in dashboards and reports10K rows/hour1M rows/hour Consume live data sources with full interactivity Yes Access on-premises data via Gateways Yes Collaboration Collaborate with your team via Office 365 in Power BI Yes Create, publish, and consume Organizational Content Packs Yes Manage access control and sharing through AD Groups Yes Shared data queries through the Data Catalog Yes

16. 16 Content Packs for SaaS Vendors As of Thursday at 4:18 PM

17. Sharing and Collaborating

18. Demo  Data Refresh Schedules  Sharing a Dashboard  Workspaces and SharePoint Groups  Content Packs – Consuming and Creating  Streaming data to a Dashboard  Custom Visuals

19. What’s in ‘the box’? Raspberry Pi Thermocouple amplifier board Verizon MiFi Breadboard Battery pack Thermocouple wire and sensing tip Wireless antenna

20. How does it get to Power BI?

21. Some useful books

22. Resources  Aspin, Adam, “High Impact Data Visualizations with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI”, Apress 2014, ISBN 978-1-4302-6616-7  Webb, Chris, “Power Query for Power BI and Excel”, Apress 2014, ISBN 978- 1-4302-6691-4  Webb, Chris, http://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/  Few, Stephen, “Information Dashboard Design” 2 nd Edition, Analytical Press 2013, ISBN 978-1-938377-00-6  Brian Larson, Mark David, Dan English, and Paul Purlington, “Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View”, McGraw Hill 2012, ISBN 978-0-07-178082-7  Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari, and Chris Webb, “Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services, The BISM Tabular Model”, Microsoft 2012, ISBN 978-0-7356- 5818-9  Power BI Blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/