Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
sharing my experiences with the Microsoft data platform, SQL Server BI, Data Modeling, SSAS Design, Power Pivot, Power BI, SSRS Advanced Design, Power BI, Dashboards & Visualization since 2009
Today in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the SQL Saturday #198; I presented a session titled “Data Visualization Choices”. As promised, my slide deck is available for download here.
This is the first draft of the session I’m preparing for the PASS Business Analytics Conference coming up on April 11-12 in Chicago. I’ll have another update for that conference.
Even for small, informal BI projects, shaping the data into a dimensional model alleviates complexity, speeds up slow calculations and reduces the data model storage size. I conclude this post by reviewing seven data architectures and the data shaping methods with different degrees of scale.
If you are in the Chicago area and haven’t already registered for the Data Insights Summit, please join me. I…
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