Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely organized. Big thanks to the organizers, sponsors and attendees of course. My session on data modeling in self-service BI went really well (but I had some time left at the end). I promised to share […]
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Book Review – Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel
As preparation for my session at Techorama.be about data modeling in self-service BI, I decided to read the book Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari. The title is quite a mouthful but it gets the point across: the book mostly deals with how to correctly build […]
Webinar – What’s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2016
I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Thursday 29th October 2015. The title is What’s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2016 and its abstract goes like this: The preview of SQL Server 2016 has been released right before the summer and it already seems this will be the biggest Business Intelligence release ever! A lot […]
Why I hate Pie Charts
The pie chart should be avoided at all costs. Why? you can only display a limited number of slices (although that doesn’t really stop people from creating pie charts with dozens of slices) they take up a lot of space the human brain cannot easily compare slices based on radial areas. We’re better in comparing […]