PASS BA Marathon 2015
who it's for
business analysts, data scientists, BI developers, Power BI developers, data engineers, Excel power users, analytics managers, BI architects
topics
Power BI platform live demo; Power BI Designer (pbix); streaming datasets for real-time; Q&A natural language queries; Analysis Services via Azure service bus; Power Query data ingestion; PowerPivot and DAX measures; TIBCO Spotfire Miner feature engineering; predictive model sampling and validation; Watson Analytics and cognitive pipelines; dbpedia heat map and D3 export
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introducing the Reimagined Power BI Platform | Jen Underwood | 01h 01m |
Demonstrates a rebuilt Power BI platform that delivers a live demo: a bike‑share monitoring solution for Barcelona with 420 stations and ~6,000 bikes, showing… | ||
| What's Next for Business Analytics in the 21st Century | Hyoun Park, Jen Stirrup, Miguel Martínez | 57m |
Panelists debate concrete wins and gaps: Microsoft pushes Power BI freemium and connectors for SAP while vendors like Trifacta and Hortonworks aim at prep and… | ||
| Predictive Analytics for Practitioners | Dean Abbott | 56m |
Practical roadmap for building deployed predictive models: emphasis on data preparation (49 raw variables + 18 demographics + 79 derived → 93 columns, 21,557… | ||
| Unlocking Big Data: The Power of Cognitive Computing | James Kobielus | 43m |
Argues that cognitive computing derives execution logic from data using machine learning, deep learning and neural nets, running in cloud and stream… | ||
| Productivity Revolution in Excel | Avi Singh, Purna Duggirala | 58m |
Demo shows four concrete Excel techniques: sparklines, conditional formatting, panel charts and slicer‑driven interactive charts built from a 2,664‑row monthly… | ||
| Visualization Tools for Data Discovery | Lynn Langit | 57m |
Demos show concrete steps and tools: browse Wikipedia-as-database with dbpedia heat map instead of SPARQL to spot relevant temporal‑geographic signals, attach… | ||
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