Amazing Things You Can Do With Power BI

2015

TL; DR

A fun session showing some amazing things you can do with Power BI

Session Details

Power BI is a dream tool when it comes to demos. In this session you'll see some cool things you can do with Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map and Power BI for Office 365, and even if what's shown has very little business use you'll learn a lot by seeing how each of the demos is implemented. Prepared to be amazed!

3 things you'll get out of this session

Speaker

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