Increasing costs. Evolving consumer expectations. And accelerating disruptions. Today’s supply chain leaders face more challenges than ever before. Hosted by Karl Siebrecht, the Logistics Leadership Podcast features industry interviews, warehousing and transportation deep dives and the unique insights supply chain leaders require to compete and win in today’s environment.
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Hosted by Mike Carlo, and Tommy Puglia, the Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI focused show that is like being around a Power BI Pro’s Water Cooler. With so many available resources in the community that focuses on the “how” in Power BI (how to do Drill Through, how to use DAX, etc.,), the Explicit Measures Podcast is all around the WHY. Why use a particular feature, does it make sense for my users? Build the toolset, learn the how, and then come to the Podcast to the listen to the why ...
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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?
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1:03:25Mike & 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
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1:00:37Mike & 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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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
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1:01:43Mike & 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
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1:08:45Tommy & 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?
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1:08:45Mike & 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
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1:12:46Mike & 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
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1:06:16Mike & 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
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57:18Mike & 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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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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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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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
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1:01:52Mike & 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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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?
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1:02:12Mike & 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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445: The Evolution & Future of the Analyst
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1:06:08Mike & 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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444: Mailbag! Optimal Power Bi Architecture in the Fabric Era
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1:08:25Mike & 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
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51:21Mike & 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…
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Mike & Tommy review the relevance of DAX in the age of Fabric. Is it still #1 in Power Rankings?? 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 a…
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Mike & Tommy talk about requirements for the business to understand their numbers. 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 Thursday mor…
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440: A Reflection of 10 Years of Power BI
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1:06:12Mike & Tommy look back at working in Microsoft Power BI for over a decade. 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 Thursday morning at …
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439: Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Draft
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55:53Mike & Tommy run through some of the major updates from the June 2025 updates and pick their favorites. 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 Tue…
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438: Mailbag! Who Owns the Connection? Managing and Chaos in Fabric Pieplines
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56:54Mike & Tommy run through another great mailbag question around how to get a handle on Fabric Data Connections and working with your team. 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/…
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437: Mailbag! Small Business with Power BI & Fabric
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59:01Mike & Tommy run through a great mailbag question on how do you deal with organizations not willing to take the plunge to 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/ Watch t…
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436: Deep Dive on CI/CD Branching Strategies
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1:13:25Mike & Tommy are joined one last time by Mathias as they talk technical process and strategy. 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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435: DataOps is the Future of Power BI Teams
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1:00:53Mike & Tommy are joined by Mathias as they take on a hot take about if Data Ops is the future of BI Teams. 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 …
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434: Top Down & Bottom Up for DevOps
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1:05:13Mike & Tommy are joined again by Mathias as they talk about running through approaches to getting DevOps started right. 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 episode…
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433: DevOps & You (and Your Team) (And Your Data)
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1:03:13Mike & Tommy are joined by Mathias Thierbach to talk about the heck is Data Ops. 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 Thursday morni…
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432: Mailbag! We Just Want to View Reports
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1:07:08Mike & Tommy dive into a great mailbag from a listener on simplifying the report viewing experience. 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 Tuesda…
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431: What's New in Microsoft Fabric CI/CD
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1:04:30Mike & Tommy run through the latest developments with Git, CI/CD, and Data Ops at Microsoft Build 2025. 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 Tue…
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430: Build for Reports or Build for AI?
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1:04:00Mike & Tommy talk about the updates to Copilot and where do Semantic Model fit in. 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 Thursday mor…
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Live Podcast: Wisdom from the Supply Chain OG
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38:11This live episode of the Logistics Leadership Podcast features special guest Dale Rogers, ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at Arizona State University, who has decades of academic and industry experience. In conversation with Karl Siebrecht and Ben Dean at the Logistics Leadership Forum, Dale shares stories from his career, reflects on the tr…
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429: Shortcut Mania! All the Use Cases of Fabric Shortcuts
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1:03:40Mike & Tommy break down all the major new updates to Microsoft Fabric Shortcuts from Build and how workflows and process are changing because of it... 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://…
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428: Unpacking Copilot Standalone for Power BI
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1:08:03Mike & Tommy digest the new Copilot standalone feature in Power BI service and what a potential rollout 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.tips/ Watch the episodes li…
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427: What Microsoft Build 2025 Means for You
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1:00:31Mike & Tommy break down the incredible announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 around Power BI & Microsoft Fabric and the potential implications moving forward. 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: …
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426: Introducing Advanced Analytics to Organizations
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46:51Mike & Tommy argue how to get organizations from bar charts to line charts to more "advanced analytics". 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 Tu…
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425: Are We Still Self Service Or Drifting Back to Corporate BI?
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59:45Mike & Tommy dive into with all the tools and features in Microsoft Fabric, will Self Service still be a thing? Props to Marco Russo & Rui Romano for inspiration. 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.ti…
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Mike & Tommy discuss their best use cases of TMDL, Semantic Models, and VS Code. 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 Thursday morni…
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Mike & Tommy dive through a great article by SQLBI and Kurt Buhler on all the tools you can use outside of just Power BI. https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/tools-in-power-bi/ 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 P…
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422: Max Performance in Power Query
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1:08:39Mike & Tommy are joined by the one and only Alex Powers again as they dive into getting the most bang for your buck in Power Query / Dataflows. 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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421: Power Query with Mr. Powers - Skills to Know & Learn
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1:02:49Mike & Tommy are joined by the guru of the data GUI, Alex Powers! This is a head first dive into what SHOULD you know in Power Query, how far do you go down the rabbit hole, and what is the future skilling that is needed? 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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420: Microsoft Fabric Half-Baked Ideas
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1:04:55Mike & Tommy run through what they consider current "Half-Baked" ideas in Microsoft Fabric & Power BI and what they would do to finish the job. 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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419: Do We Design Lakehouses Differently Now?
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1:01:49Mike & Tommy consider if the advent of Semantic Modeling changes in Power BI & Microsoft Fabric should force us to change the way we design Lakehouses. 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:/…
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418: What Does Education Look Like for a Data Scientist in the Age of Fabric?
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1:04:40Mike & Tommy are joined on an episode with Ginger Grant as we conclude our series on Fabric & Data Science - does AI, Fabric, and fast moving technology change what organizations need in a data scientist? 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 P…
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417: Is Now The Time for Data Scientists to Switch to Fabric?
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1:03:54Mike & Tommy are joined by Ginger Grant to dive into how do we get Data Scientists into the Fabric playground. 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 ev…
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416: How Much should Data Scientists Care about Power BI?
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1:03:56Mike & Tommy are joined again by Ginger Grant talking about the world of Data Science & Power BI, and can the worlds collide? First half is about LLMs and Agents and now... Vibe 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…
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415: The Future of Data Science In Microsoft Fabric
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1:00:43Mike & Tommy are joined by Ginger Grant on diving into how integrated Data Science with Fabric, and where the gaps still are. 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 e…
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Mike & Tommy dive into a a great article by Marco Russo about what the future of DAX and Semantic Models after the FabCon announcements. https://www.sqlbi.com/blog/marco/2025/04/04/dax-and-semantic-models-announcements-at-the-fabric-conference-2025/ Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips wi…
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Mike & Tommy try to run through all of the major announcements at the Fabric Conference in Las Vegas and making sense of it all. 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 th…
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