Best Semantic Web Podcasts (2025)

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483: Let’s Talk Semantic Modeling on the Web 57:27

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Mike & Tommy dive into semantic modeling on the web, exploring whether this new feature signals the decline of Power BI Desktop and discussing the implications for data culture. Tune in for practical insights on version history and governance strategies for organizations. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-editing-semantic-mode…

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484: Data Governance in the Age of Fabric IQ 1:07:10

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Mike & Tommy dive into "Data Governance in the Age of Fabric IQ," exploring whether Fabric IQ is truly the missing link for effective data governance or just another AI feature. They discuss practical strategies for organizations to enhance their governance frameworks and ensure successful implementation. https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blo…

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482: Microsoft Ignite & Fabric IQ 1:13:37

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Mike & Tommy dive into the AMAZING new features and incredible impact they will have on businesses and our careers. First half is AI then we dive in to Fabric Ontology and Fabric IQ. https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-data-integration-innovations-in-data-factory-in-ms-fabric-at-ignite-2025?ft=All https://blog.fabric.microsoft.co…

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481: From Fragmented Models to Unified Semantics 1:04:03

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Mike & Tommy explore from fragmented import models to unified Fabric semantics, examining how to lead cultural change when teams resist moving from siloed datasets to shared models, and provide practical steps for building a culture that embraces a single source of truth. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by twee…

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480: Kill Your Data Team - Why Product Teams Should Own Data 54:21

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Mike & Tommy tackle the controversial idea of killing your data team, questioning whether centralized BI teams have become expensive bottlenecks, and exploring how embedding analysts into product teams could deliver faster, more impactful insights.https://medium.com/dashboards-suck/kill-your-data-team-why-product-teams-should-own-data-bddd991dcff8 …

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479: Mailbag! Tracking App Usage at Scale 56:20

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Mike & Tommy dive into tracking app usage at scale, exploring how education consultants can monitor dashboard engagement across 70 school districts and 9,000 users. They break down the limitations of built-in metrics and reveal practical strategies for implementing audience-level usage tracking in Power BI. Get in touch: Send in your questions or t…

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478: MAILBAG! Untangling Workspace, Branching, and Artifact Chaos 1:05:03

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Mike & Tommy untangle workspace, branching, and artifact chaos, exploring how to organize Fabric environments amid conflicting advice from Microsoft and consultants, and provide a practical framework for managing dev/test/prod workflows without workspace proliferation. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweetin…

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477: Mailbag! Start With Why 1:04:45

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Mike and Tommy go through another great mailbag: I just finished listening to Adopting Copilot Standalone for Power BI - Ep.428. You may have addressed this before but I'd enjoy hearing a conversation about addressing what is the problem you are trying to solve for? You can have many tools and be highly skilled with it. But do you understand the is…

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476: New Feature Announcement - Semantic Bridge 1:05:03

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Mike & Tommy explore the new Tabular Editor feature Semantic Bridge, investigating how this technology bridges the gap between different semantic modeling standards across platforms, and examining whether it solves real problems or just adds complexity to the BI ecosystem. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by twe…

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The cognitive exoskeleton driver 33:48

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Discussing his recent book "Not Artificial, Not Intelligent", Django Beatty cites high failure rates and combinatorial explosion issues. Thoughtful essays like "The Pachinko Machine" and "The Machine Can't Plan" frame AI as a useful cognitive exoskeleton requiring human expertise: can be read as an antidote to extreme views. The episode concludes t…

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475: Source Control in BI - Necessary, Painful, or Both? 1:04:57

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Mike & Tommy tackle source control in BI, exploring whether serialization formats like database.json and TMDL solve more problems than they create, and how teams can implement version control without overwhelming analysts. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag …

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474: Modeling Without the Keyboard 1:10:14

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Mike & Tommy dive into TMDL, Tabular Editor, and AI automation for semantic modeling, questioning why typing less gets so much attention when it's never the real bottleneck, and uncovering which workflow friction points actually deserve your automation effort. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @Pow…

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473: DevEx for Pros - UDFs, TI, and the Tools That Stick 55:39

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Mike & Tommy unpack developer experience for Power BI pros, exploring how UDFs, enhanced time intelligence, and specialized tools transform data modeling workflows, and revealing why certain development practices stick while others fade away. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the …

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472: Getting Started with Real Time Intelligence 1:02:56

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Mike & Tommy break down Real Time Intelligence in Fabric, exploring what Power BI pros need to know to get started with this feature, and how to build real-time pipelines that transform traditional refresh-based reporting into powerful streaming insights. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBIT…

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Alexandre Bertails: The Netflix Unified Data Architecture – Episode 40 31:37

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Alexandre BertailsAt Netflix, Alexandre Bertails and his team have adopted the RDF standard to capture the meaning in their content in a consistent way and generate consistent representations of it for a variety of internal customers.The keys to their system are a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) and a domain modeling language, Upper, that let them …

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471: Data Modeling in Event Driven Architectures 1:05:54

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Mike & Tommy dive into Data Modeling in Event-Driven Architectures, exploring how Power BI skills apply to Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric, and provide practical approaches for transitioning from traditional modeling to handling streaming data effectively. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to …

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470: Measure Total Shenanigans 1:10:28

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Mike & Tommy finally weigh in on the measure total debate that's been heating up online, exploring why totals don't add up as expected, whether it's a DAX problem or a misunderstanding of filter context, and how developers can build measures that business users actually trust without breaking their mental models. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/more…

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469: PBIX or PBIP? 59:26

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Mike & Tommy debate the new Power BI Project (PBIP) format, questioning whether source control and Git integration are worth the added complexity, and discussing who should migrate from the traditional PBIX binary format. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag o…

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468: Action Systems & AI Applications 1:02:33

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Mike & Tommy are joined by Microsoft's Chris Schimdt on utilizing real time with actual applications in and outside Microsoft Fabric. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Wat…

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467: What Is Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric? 57:49

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Mike & Tommy explore Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, questioning whether event-driven analytics is a genuine business need or just technical hype, and discussing how organizations can move beyond real-time dashboards to embed streaming intelligence into their Power BI adoption strategy. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you…

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Torrey Podmajersky: Aligning Language and Meaning in Complex Systems – Episode 39 32:40

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Torrey PodmajerskyTorrey Podmajersky is uniquely well-prepared to help digital teams align on language and meaning.Her father's interest in philosophy led her to an early intellectual journey into semantics, and her work as a UX writer at companies like Google and Microsoft has attuned her to the need to discover and convey precise meaning in compl…

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466: Data Agents & Semantic Models 1:02:06

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Mike & Tommy dive more into Data Agents... but are Semantic Models the preferred data source? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and T…

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465: Mailbag! More Email Subscription Use Cases 1:02:51

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464: Is Microsoft Fabric Actually Business Intelligence? 1:06:45

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Wow! we have a doozy of an episode today. Mike & Tommy ask the question if Microsoft Fabric the evolution of business intelligence or something different altogether. How should one position the themselves in the industry? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag o…

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463: The Impact of User Defined Functions in DAX 1:07:15

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We are talking about the buzz! Mike and Tommy wrap their heads around User Defined Functions (UDFs) in DAX and what implementation looks like. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.…

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462: Microsoft Fabric Feature Pyramid 1:12:30

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Mike & Tommy rank the BEST features in the Microsoft Data Platform, from level 1 the TOP to what is essential to what they do. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the …

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461: FabCon Vienna Draft! 57:12

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Mike & Tommy dive into the major updates from FabCon Vienna and what it means for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric users alike. https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/september-2025-fabric-feature-summary Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the …

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460: Mailbag! Composite Models vs Reusable Datasets: Are We Sending Mixed Messages? 1:03:25

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Mike & Tommy go through a great mailbag question on composite models and reusable models, along with how this changes in Fabric. Whoa! I think I'm triggered after listening to both your composite model episode and your managing multiple dataset episode. Isn't a fair bit of the question similar however much of the discussion seems different between …

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459: Initial Impressions of Data Agents 1:00:37

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Mike & Tommy give their thoughts on the state of Microsoft Fabric Data Agents. https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/new-in-fabric-data-agent-data-source-instructions-for-smarter-more-accurate-ai-responses/?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621# https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fabric-data-agents-microsoft-copilot-studio-a-new-era-of-multi-agent-orchestra…

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458: The Fabric Magic Wand 57:46

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Stephanie joins Mike and Tommy to talk about those "magic wand" moments everyone experiences while working with Power BI. After polling social media, Stephanie shares the trends people seemed to wish for, sparking a lively discussion within the group. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips …

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457: Planning Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity 1:01:43

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Mike & Tommy are joined by Stephanie once again diving into the gotchas of the new Microsoft Fabric Capacity SKUs, how rolling it out differs than Power BI, and putting a gameplan together. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Pod…

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456: Rolling Out & Managing Accessibility; - Adoption & Methods 1:08:45

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Tommy & Mike are joined by Stephanie Bruno tackling how to provide Accessibility in Power BI to your organization. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes liv…

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455: What & Why is Power BI Accessibility? 1:08:45

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Mike & Tommy are joined by Stephanie Bruno as we shed light to what to cover in Power BI accessible reporting, creating a checklist, and what to be mindful of. https://github.com/stephbruno/Power-BI-Accessibility-Checker Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or…

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454: Looking at the Data Warehouse Roadmap 1:12:46

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Mike & Tommy are joined by Brad Schact at Microsoft to review what is new & upcoming in the Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the ep…

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453: Creature Comforts of Data Warehouse 1:06:16

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Mike & Tommy are joined by Brad Schacht on the Data Warehouse team for Microsoft to dive into how to get eased and comfortable with the Warehouse experience in Microsoft Fabric. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. V…

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452: Mailbag! Calculation Groups in Practice 57:18

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Mike & Tommy discuss a mailbag all around the use cases for Calculation Groups, how often they use them, and how essential they are to reporting. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://power…

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Casey Hart: The Philosophical Foundations of Ontology Practice – Episode 38 39:06

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Casey HartOntology engineering has its roots in the idea of ontology as defined by classical philosophers.Casey Hart sees many other connections between professional ontology practice and the academic discipline of philosophy and shows how concepts like epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric are relevant to both knowledge graphs and AI technology …

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451: Lets Talk SQL & New Features 58:51

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With the major and new updates coming with the SQL Analytics Endpoint, how much should this shift our cognitive model on what SQL Endpoints mean for the organization? https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/whats-new-and-coming-soon-in-sql-analytics-endpoint-in-fabric/?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621# Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want …

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450: The End of Line for Datamarts 1:02:01

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Mike, Seth, & Brad talk about the retirement of Datamarts in October and preparing for the new focus. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/unify-datamart-with-fabric-data-warehouse?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621 Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the Pow…

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Adapting to Complexity in the Telco Space - Discussion with Alicia Miller 46:33

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In this episode, Alicia Miller returns to share exciting insights about her new role as Head of Growth Strategy at Aduna Global.The discussion explores Aduna's mission to accelerate the telco network API market by reducing friction and commercializing APIs that are difficult for individual telcos to manage due to antitrust concerns and technical co…

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449: Lakehouse or Warehouse? 1:03:30

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Mike & Tommy are joined by Brad Schacht on the Microsoft team to see if they could get to the bottom of the issue of Lakehouses vs Warehouse. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.t…

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448: The Easier the Worse It is? Simple UI & Gotchas 1:01:52

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Mike & Tommy break down the balance between having nice, easy UI in Fabric for complex features. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday an…

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447: Translytical Is So Much More 1:00:00

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Mike & Tommy unbox the new Translytical Task Flows in Microsoft Fabric and debunk what they are, and what they are not. They are more than writeback! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/translytical-task-flow-overview Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the has…

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446: AI In Power BI - Are We Now Ready? 1:02:12

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Mike & Tommy dive into another great article on SQLBI by Kurt Buhler and discuss what is our current state of AI, implementation for creators and consumers. https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/ai-in-power-bi-time-to-pay-attention/ Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailb…

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Chris Mungall: Collaborative Knowledge Graphs in the Life Sciences – Episode 37 32:52

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Chris MungallCapturing knowledge in the life sciences is a huge undertaking. The scope of the field extends from the atomic level up to planetary-scale ecosystems, and a wide variety of disciplines collaborate on the research.Chris Mungall and his colleagues at the Berkeley Lab tackle this knowledge-management challenge with well-honed collaborativ…

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45: New Projects and AI Detox 1:23:21

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Send us a text Collin and Joel both have new projects to talk about. Collin has become skeptical on LLM assisted coding and is taking a break from it. Ruby Schema Rezy (resume generator) Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper

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445: The Evolution & Future of the Analyst 1:06:08

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Mike & Tommy reflect once more (last time we promise!) how navigating the waters in the data space as never been more important. 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 Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page…

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APIs in the Age of Agents: Standards, Security & Scale - Discussion with Erik Wilde 1:09:11

5M ago1:09:11

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OAI ambassador Erik Wilde explores how new specs like Arazzo and MCP are shaping AI-driven workflows, and why APIs may soon be your last line of defense.

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444: Mailbag! Optimal Power Bi Architecture in the Fabric Era 1:08:25

5M ago1:08:25

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Mike & Tommy run through a GREAT question by one of our listeners on what to do with Power BI & Fabric development. In the Pre-Fabric era, as far as I know the most optimal architecture for dataset & report development was the following: 1, Collect data sources into Dataflows 2, Create shared datasets which load data from the Dataflows 3, Create re…

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443: Mailbag! Future-Proofing Excel - Dashboards to Power BI 51:21

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Mike & Tommy have a great conversation on how do we still build for Excel? Thanks for the mailbag! I’m building Excel sheets for my company to use as sales metrics dashboards. Can you talk about what would make of the ideal Excel migration strategy? I want to build in a way that makes migrating easier in the future, not harder. Get in touch: Send i…