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PASS BA Marathon: Conference Preview Edition 2016

Session Date/Time (dd-MM-YYYY 24h)	Speaker	Category	Track	Title
25-02-2016 16:00	Sanjay Soni	Breakout Session (60 minutes)	Visualize & Inform	Microsoft Power BI Overview: Real World End-to-End Business Analytics Demos
25-02-2016 17:00	Avi Singh	Breakout Session (60 minutes)	Analyze & Interpret	Dueling Dashboards With Power BI and Power Pivot
25-02-2016 18:00	Daniel Fylstra	Breakout Session (60 minutes)	Analyze & Interpret	Advanced Analytics for Excel Users: Learn How to Do It Yourself
25-02-2016 19:00	Mico Yuk	Breakout Session (60 minutes)	Visualize & Inform	Visual Storytelling: How to Tell a “Compelling” Data Story That Matters
25-02-2016 20:00	Sandy Rivas	Breakout Session (60 minutes)	Visualize & Inform	From Zero to Hero: Creating Reports and Dashboards with Power BI

SessionID: 45567

Microsoft Power BI Overview: Real World End-to-End Business Analytics Demos

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Event Date: 25-02-2016 16:00 - Category: Breakout Session (60 minutes) - Track: Visualize & Inform

Speaker(s): Sanjay Soni

Title: Microsoft Power BI Overview: Real World End-to-End Business Analytics Demos

Description:

Join this fun session to get an overview of Power BI and see real world end to end business analytics demo scenarios in action. Topics include Power BI Desktop, Content Packs, data sources and on-prem connectivity. Demos based on real world example of Power BI integrated with Cortana analytics and SQL Server 2016 BI will be shown during the session. 

SessionID: 45568

Dueling Dashboards With Power BI and Power Pivot

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Event Date: 25-02-2016 17:00 - Category: Breakout Session (60 minutes) - Track: Analyze & Interpret

Speaker(s): Avi Singh

Title: Dueling Dashboards With Power BI and Power Pivot

Description:

Microsoft’s evolving strategy in BI and analytics has taken some very exciting turns over the past 12 months. What we used to call the Microsoft BI “platform” could now more appropriately be called an “ecosystem”: a suite of products that truly interoperate, are built upon the same core engines, and revolve around the same core languages.

In this pre-conference preview session, Avi Singh of PowerPivotPro put that ecosystem through its paces for your benefit. He will use real-world examples from his many years of experience, and will cover these patterns in their entirety so you can return to work and apply them immediately. He will provide tips on adapting these patterns to your own needs, with topics including: variance from target/budget, outlier detection, multi-level performance improvement, and Opportunity Gap Analysis.

SessionID: 45569

Advanced Analytics for Excel Users: Learn How to Do It Yourself

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Event Date: 25-02-2016 18:00 - Category: Breakout Session (60 minutes) - Track: Analyze & Interpret

Speaker(s): Daniel Fylstra

Title: Advanced Analytics for Excel Users: Learn How to Do It Yourself

Description:

Data science and analytics experts are in great demand today – but if you’re a business analyst using Excel, you might be feeling left out. Take heart, you really can do advanced analytics yourself in Excel, from forecasting, data and text mining, and predictive analytics, to Monte Carlo simulation, risk analysis, and optimization – and you can use your models and results with other desktop and cloud-based tools. In 50 minutes we can’t turn you into an analytics expert, but in this session we can show you what’s possible (and easy) to do in Excel.

SessionID: 45570

Visual Storytelling: How to Tell a “Compelling” Data Story That Matters

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Event Date: 25-02-2016 19:00 - Category: Breakout Session (60 minutes) - Track: Visualize & Inform

Speaker(s): Mico Yuk

Title: Visual Storytelling: How to Tell a “Compelling” Data Story That Matters

Description:

Join us for Mico's sneak peek into her Pre-conference workshop. This session will provide the foundation necessary to make your data visualizations more intelligent, actionable, and useful! Whether you are a beginner or a data visualization veteran, this session will guide you on telling more compelling stories with your data, from storyboarding fundamentals to more advanced techniques such as how to add smart context and visual cues. Attendees will learn:

• how to create a simple four-part visual storyboard on paper in minutes, not weeks • why visual storytelling is more effective than traditional reporting • the one element 98% of data visualizations are missing and how it is negatively affecting user adoption.

SessionID: 45571

From Zero to Hero: Creating Reports and Dashboards with Power BI

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Event Date: 25-02-2016 20:00 - Category: Breakout Session (60 minutes) - Track: Visualize & Inform

Speaker(s): Sandy Rivas

Title: From Zero to Hero: Creating Reports and Dashboards with Power BI

Description:

Join us for an accelerated training session and learn how to conduct business-oriented self-service analytics using Microsoft Power BI. In this sneak peek at Sandy’s pre-conference session you will learn what Power BI is about and will see demos covering the Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service as data is transformed from raw numbers to interactive visual reports and dashboards.