Ginger Grant joined the show on January 19th, 2016 at 9:05pm Eastern. Ginger is an Excel Trainer, blogger and conference speaker focusing on Power BI and all the Power Excel Tools. Check out her blog, Desert Isle SQL
Have you been curious about Power BI? Want to learn more? Then join at 9:05pm Eastern on Tuesday January 19th
Ginger has watched the evolution of Power BI from its inception as a cluster of Power tools within Excel, to it’s launch as a separate application. In the episode, Ginger discusses the history of Power BI and how you can best get started with the tool.
Where To Find Ginger
- Website: http://www.desertislesql.com/wordpress1/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DesertIsleSQL
Excel Challenge Answer:
Playbill Font
You can use Playbill, Stencil. & Haettenschweiler is also useful.
Excel Challenge Answer: According to P429 in your book ‘Playbill size 10 is fairly reliable.’
All these 3 (Playbill, Stencil. & Haettenschweiler) has the same effect.
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Interesting section on PBI. Being that excel guy now in power BI, I will share that for me PBI is a much faster and stable running program for analyzing data. It is changing how we share information, and people in my org love the ownership of there dashboard, updated vs. another emailed excel book to figure out. For the excel person trying to figure out BI, it would help to learn Dax well w/in excel power pivot.. pivots are the filter context. From there, PBI desktop becomes a smaller leap. Imagine power pivot but w a graphical emphasis vs. reporting. I will say, the program is catching up quickly.. it runs very fast and stable, and when they bring a more developed pivot table, I’ll be probably 80% PBI, 20% Excel.