Join our Business Intelligence Analyst Tim Volz, otherwise known as the Bearded Guy, for this months insightful Power BI session to see Power BI in practice.

As any producer or consumer of BI content will readily tell you, bad data equals bad reporting, which can lead to disastrous business decisions if not remedied. As a Power BI developer, all your hard work is for naught if the data’s dirty, so the question before us is: how can we catch and clean bad data before it hits the design canvas?

In this month’s session, “Power Query and Dirty Data”, we’ll look to answer that question by exploring the data profiling tools in Power Query, and the strategies for remedying any issues uncovered along the way. We’ll also look at how to surface those same profiling insights to your users via the Power BI front-end. If dirty data has you in the dumps, our next session will leave you smiling.

Why join our Power BI Webinar?

Tim Says: "Power BI has a great deal of flexibility but where it really stands out to me is that there's a very powerful tool underlying these dashboards. It allows you to pull your data from any source and shape it in any way you want. Effectively the back end of Power BI is an ETL tool in itself. It has great capacity to do data cleansing and data profiling and it’s a really versatile back end and I don’t think we’ve ever come across anything like it before."

Note: This webinar will take place at 2pm BST / 9am EST.

SPEAKER PROFILES:

Tim Volz, Business Intelligence Analyst, The Virtual Forge

Over the past ten years, Tim has worked on nearly every aspect of the project lifecycle, from initial contact through ongoing operational support. He’s worked in Customer Service, Project Management, and Account Management, finally settling in to a data-centric role focused on analytics and integrations. Given his background in philosophy and logic, Tim’s passion for the role should come as no surprise. When Tim’s not planning data integration strategies, designing dashboard prototypes, or troubleshooting stored procedures, he can be found running the roads of his adopted hometown, Doylestown, PA, preparing for the next distance race on the agenda.