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Power BI: Asking questions the natural way using Q & A

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A Power BI presentation with focus on how to tune your Data Model in order to make the Q & A feature as natural and reliable as possible. These are the slides used din my SharePoint Connect session in Amsterdam 18-20 Nov 1914

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Power BI: Asking questions the natural way

using Q + A

Bjoern H Rapp

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About me

Business Developer at Steria Twitter: @bjoern_rapp

SharePoint MVP and MCT Blog: www.sharepointviking.com

10 + years in system dev Email: [email protected]

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AGENDA

• Power BI Primer

• Q & A

• Building Models

• Synonyms

• Behind the scenes

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My Goals for the session…not like this.

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but this……!! .

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POWER BI familiarity of Office and the power of the cloud

EXCEL 2013 POWER BI for Office 365

Discover Analyze Visualize Share Find Mobile

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Building Models - Modeling Tips

• Fixing Missing Relationships

• Renaming Tables and Columns

• Choose a default Field Set for each table

• Choose a default Label for each table

• Fix incorrect data types

• Mark year and id columns as “Do not Summarize”

• Choose a data category for each data and geo col

• Choose a sort by column for relevant column

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Building Models – Missing Relationships

POOR

BETTER

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Building Models – Renaming tables and columns

POOR

BETTER

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Building Models–Default field set for each table

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Building Models–Default label for each table

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Building Models – Fix incorrect data types

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Building Models – Do not summarize id and date columns

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Building Models – Choose a Data Category for each date and geography column

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Building Models – Choose a Sort By Column for relevant columns

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Building Models – Normalize your model

POOR

BETTER

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Synonyms

• Unique for Q + A

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Sharing Questions

• Sharing links• Featured Questions

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Behind the scenes – Choosing the best answer

Search for interpretations of questions

Score and select best interpretation

Select best visual

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“medal count by country for 2012”

Search for interpretations of questions

Score and select best interpretation

Select best visual

from Olympics.xlxsshow medal[medal count], medal[country]Where Olympics[year] = 2012

from Olympics.xlxsshow medal[medal count], Olympics[host country]where olympics[year] = 2012

from Sales.xlxsshow customer[country]where order[order year] = 2012

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“medal count by country for 2012”

Search for interpretations of questions

Score and select best interpretation

Select best visual

from Olympics.xlxsshow medal[medal count], medal[country]Where Olympics[year] = 2012

from Olympics.xlxsshow medal[medal count], Olympics[host country]where olympics[year] = 2012

from Sales.xlxsshow customer[country]where order[order year] = 2012

0.86

0.72

0.46

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“medal count by country for 2012”

Search for interpretations of questions

Score and select best interpretation

Select best visual

from Olympics.xlxsshow medal[medal count], medal[country]Where Olympics[year] = 2012

from Olympics.xlxsshow medal[medal count], Olympics[host country]where olympics[year] = 2012

from Sales.xlxsshow customer[country]where order[order year] = 2012

0.86

0.72

0.46

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Influencing the best answer

Search for interpretations of questions

Score and select best interpretation

Select best visual

Data modeling,synonyms

Workbooks in site

Data modeling (data types, data categories)

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THANK YOU!