Name: Introduction to R Visualizations in Microsoft Power BI
Start: 2017-03-15T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-03-15T21:30:00-04:00
Location: MaRS Discovery District, room CR-2

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Microsoft’s Power BI is a powerful technology for quickly creating rich visualizations. Power BI has many practical uses for the modern data professional including executive dashboards, operational dashboards, and visualizations for data exploration/analysis.

Microsoft has also extended Power BI with support for incorporating R visualizations into Power BI projects, enabling a myriad of data visualization use cases across all industries and circumstances. As such, Power BI is an extremely valuable tool for any Data Analyst, Product/Program Manager, or Data Scientist to have in their tool belt.

At this meetup presenter Dave Langer will provide a hands-on introduction to using R visualizations within Power BI using Microsoft’s free Power BI Desktop software. Both Power BI project and .CSV data files will be accessible via GitHub prior to the Meetup presentation.

Overview of Power BI and where it fits in a data professional’s tool belt.

· Understanding the nuances of how Power BI integrates with R, including necessary data preprocessing.

· A brief introduction to the R ggplot2 visualization package.

· Incorporating R visualizations into Power BI projects.

· Making R visualizations dynamic by responding to Power BI UX controls.

**Pizza and Refreshments will be served

Bio:

Dave is a veteran BI, analytics, and data science professional. He is currently the VP of Data Science at Data Science Dojo, focusing on growing the educational services practice. Previously, Dave was a Sr. Director for BI and Analytics at Microsoft where he managed a team that owned the mission-critical data platforms used to run Microsoft’s $10+ Billion supply chain. Dave’s current passions are text analytics, event log mining, and mathematical programming. Dave holds a MS in Computer Science and a BA in Economics from the University of Washington.

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