Baton Rouge .NET and SQL Server User Groups

Agenda:
• 5:15 - 5:45 - Food and Drinks (Networking)
• 5:45 - 6:00 - Introduction/Announcements
• 6:00 - 7:15 - Presentations
• 7:15 - 8:00 - Open forum for questions

This month's meeting is being sponsored by TBD

Thomas LeBlanc

TRANSITION FROM DATA ANALYST TO DATA ENGINEER: UPGRADING SKILLS FROM DATAFLOWS GEN2 TO NOTEBOOKS

The session shows an analyst how to use notebooks to perform the same actions as Dataflow Gen2. Looking at 4 areas: source, transformation, cleansing, and destination, examples include append/merge query to dataframe joins, text replace functionality, split and concatenate columns, as well as pivot/unpivot, data type changes, and removing duplicates. We will finish off with engine optimizations.

Agenda:
• 5:15 - 5:45 - Food and Drinks (Networking)
• 5:45 - 6:00 - Introduction/Announcements
• 6:00 - 7:15 - Presentations
• 7:15 - 8:00 - Open forum for questions

This month's meeting is being sponsored by TBD

BREAKING THE CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE — COMMUNICATING CLEARLY WITH NON‑TECHNICAL TEAMS

This talk explores one of the biggest hidden barriers to effective communication between
technical and non‑technical teams: the Curse of Knowledge. Once you understand something
deeply, it becomes almost impossible to remember what it was like not to know it. This bias
leads experts to skip steps, use jargon unconsciously, overload explanations, and assume
shared context that doesn’t exist.
The result? Misalignment, confusion, and frustration on both sides.
This session teaches practical, repeatable techniques for breaking the Curse of Knowledge so
technical communicators can make their ideas clear, accessible, and actionable for any
audience.

Agenda:
• 5:15 - 5:45 - Food and Drinks (Networking)
• 5:45 - 6:00 - Introduction/Announcements
• 6:00 - 7:15 - Presentations
• 7:15 - 8:00 - Open forum for questions

This month's meeting is being sponsored by

Agenda:
• 5:15 - 5:45 - Food and Drinks (Networking)
• 5:45 - 6:00 - Introduction/Announcements
• 6:00 - 7:15 - Presentations
• 7:15 - 8:00 - Open forum for questions

This month's meeting is being sponsored by