Matt Allington

We have a full house at the Sydney #PowerBI user group on the this cold winter’s night. Everyone is here to hear @Rad_Reza talk about Microsoft Fabric.

@ExceleratorBI Did you do a dance?

Fabulous Five about to present to the Power BI User group here in Sydney.

I’m looking forward to having @PhilSeamark and @patrickdba et al from the Power BI CAT team at the Sydney Power BI User Group tonight. Hope to see some Sydneysiders there. meetup.com/sydney-power-b…

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Tonight @BILAnalytics is presenting to the Sydney Power BI User Group. If you haven’t seen Roland’s video channel on YouTube, you’re missing out big time. bilingualanalytics.com.au

My journey as a #Microsoft #PowerBI MVP is coming to an end. It's be fun; thanks a lot Microsoft. Keep up the good work. Read about it here: exceleratorbi.com.au/my-journey-as-…

This chart was in @australian newspaper today. 🙄. Seriously! In this case, the chart implies 2024 is half the 2021 number. A column chart encodes the value in the height of the column. Don’t be like The Australian; always set the axis to start at zero.

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Final for 2023 🤦‍♂️

Final #PowerBI user group in Sydney, Australia.

Have you noticed that Microsoft recently announced the renaming of #PowerBI datasets and they're now called "semantic models"? Are you a bit confused by all of this, and/or want to learn more. I have written a short article explaining it all here bit.ly/46ljSms

Playing golf in Australia! 😂

@PaulBongiorno Garbage. I voted no because I despise racism.

Voice referendum results: If Australia denies racism, we don’t know ourselves I share Sean’s anger and applaud his searing analysis.Michaelia Cash today said it was all about defeating Anthony Albanese - Jesus wept. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

@r1c1 @ehansalytics It’s valid syntax, but in my view it’s distracting, creates confusion and is not required for DAX to be a beautiful language.

@ehansalytics Hmm.. Can you tell me why this is wrong? I assumed the internal evaluation flow & performance would be similar between this and CALCULATE ( [Sales], 'Date'[Year] = 2023 ). Is there any article or resource that goes deeper?

I legit saw this CALCULATE() syntax in the wild today. Some Measure = [Sales]('Date'[Year] = 2023) New dev. Someone showed it to them in the last 2 months. I gently corrected them. 😁

@KratosBi @Datatouille My rule for calc columns is to use them when you want to leverage relationships and/or measures as part of the calculation. Eg, Adventure Works CC in Customer table IsLargeCustomer = [total sales]>=4000 To do this elsewhere requires table joins and SUM logic to be duplicated.

NO #PowerBI DAX columns. Nada. ZERO. Zilch. Stop it. You can now use #MicrosoftFabric Fabric is 10,000 times better than a calculated DAX column. It's close enough to the weekend. @Datatouille youtube.com/shorts/R-9Q_fW…

@Datatouille Not controversial to me. It's pretty much exactly as I have in my blog article here, last updated nearly 8 years ago :-) exceleratorbi.com.au/calculated-col…

#PowerBI Controversial Opinion 👉 Beginners use a lot of DAX Calculated Columns for wrong reasons 👉 Intermediate users try to NEVER use DAX Calculated Columns because they were told it's super bad 👉 Advanced users use DAX Calculated Columns in specific & relevant scenarios

@Mirrortears You ordered it yourself?! 😳

New #MVP certificate #MVPbuzz and yes I ordered it by myself 😄

Fantastic turnout despite thunder and lightning in Sydney tonight to hear about #MicrosoftFabric from @darrengosbell the user group.

About to hear Phil Seamark and Darren Gosbell from the Microsoft CAT team talk to the Sydney #PowerBI User Group about all things Fabric