Category: Power BI

Writing your Data Adventure, w/ Blythe Morrow

Today we welcome Blythe Morrow, owner of Paper Sword, to the show. She shares her SQL-adjacent/data-adjacent data origin story and the details of her love affair with both language and data. The ability to marry good writing with technical skills can help you clarify your message and build trust with your stakeholders. Even if you aren’t a writer, learning how to talk to and convince people about Data Platform technologies can elevate your skills as a data professional.

Written by on April 26, 2022

Mapping the Road to Innovation, w/ Mike Reynolds

On Today’s episode special guest Mike Reynolds defines digital product and the genius behind InnovateMap. Mike explains that businesses must go digital if they touch a consumer or risk losing relevance. While most consumer-facing companies have embraced this tenant, many B2B companies just haven’t accepted this yet and those who have are advancing quicker than ever.

Written by on April 12, 2022

From FP&A to Global Director of Data, w/ Khaled Chowdhury

In this episode, we learn the inside secrets to creating an internal Power BI community within an organization from none other than Khaled Chowdhury, Global Director, Data & Analytics with CMC Materials. Khaled is one of the doers who took what he learned from training, rode the excitement after class, and achieved buy-in at his company by tackling a huge project using a free resource over a weekend. When the powers that be were shown his quick, agile, and cost-effective results compared to the expensive, labor-intensive method formerly used by the company, they were sold!

Written by on February 22, 2022

Falling Iguanas and Fantastic Intelligence, w/ Priscilla Camp

Today, on Raw Data by P3 Adaptive, our special guest is Priscilla Camp, tech blogger, Power BI enthusiast, user group leader, and data diva.  Joining us from sunny Orlando Florida, Priscilla shares her Accidental DBA story. Like so many others, she began her evolutionary process in IT where she learned there are better, frictionless methods to fine tune data. Now, her skills are shared via her I.T. Data Diva blog to help others navigate the process. Also on this episode, we get her take on mixed use of SQL and M to cleanse and transform data. Her advice to SQL users: Always use Power Query for dates. You can find Priscilla on Twitter @ITDataDiva.

Written by on February 8, 2022

Even Undead Lords Love Data w/Scree

Today on Raw Data by P3 Adaptive, our guest is the mysterious Scree from the Undead Lords Guild. Choosing to remain anonymous, Scree brings his data and Power BI experience from his ‘day job’ in an informationally protected industry to his hobby and passion: gaming. Being part of the admin team gives Scree the opportunity to showcase his mad data skills and proves that you never know where a data person is lurking.

Written by on January 25, 2022

The Numbers that Didn’t Exist, with Tim Rodman

Tim Rodman revisits his backyard BBQ education in PowerPivot. Not just any BBQ, this one hosted two corporate powerhouses casually chatting analytic software over the grill. After this informal introduction, Tim went on to become yet another Power BI OG.

Written by on January 18, 2022

Be Careful with that Umfahren, w/ Lars Schreiber

Lars Schreiber is another one of the great examples of the human element of data that we love!  He’s an MVP, a long-standing member of the Power BI Community, and his passion for the Power Platform is quite catchy!

Written by on January 11, 2022

An Anthropologist Goes Corporate, w/ Geoff McNeely

Our guest for the first part of the double feature is Geoff Mcneely, a very interesting human!  He has a degree in Anthropology (we can check that one off of our interesting background list!)  He’s a Power BI OG, starting one of the first two Power BI user groups (Rob having started the other). He’s a full-time Power BI professional working for Microsoft who has a strange distinction of being a non-Full-Time Full-Time employee (we will explain)!

Written by on January 4, 2022

Gifted Kids Gone Wild, w/ Luke the Producer

This week’s episode is a bit of a fun departure, as we peel back the curtain and talk a bit with Luke Pirozzoli, producer of Raw Data and Operations Manager at P3 Adaptive!  A story not necessarily data-based, but certainly as winding and different a path as any! We have some great episodes already recorded to start 2022 with a bang!  Happy Holidays!

Written by on December 21, 2021