Steph Locke (PBI & R) & TalkTalk's PBI Case Study

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Key note speaker for Session 1:

Steph Locke

Using R to solve PowerBI pain points with Steph Locke

Are you struggling to solve data import and data visualisation challenges? Join Steph Locke who will be telling us how R is the solution to all these problems and more at this month's Power BI meetup!

This session will look at how PowerBI dashboard developers can use R to solve data import and data visualisation challenges. By the end of this session, you'll know how you can use R to connect to more data sources, do sophisticated data transformation easily, avoid spatial data point limitations, and build custom graphics.

Steph Locke is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a decade of business intelligence and data science experience.

You can find more about her at https://itsalocke.com/about-us/ and follow her at @SteffLocke (https://twitter.com/SteffLocke)

Key note speakers for Session 2:

Matt Hoole & Kris Atherton from TalkTalk MI & Analytics team

Power BI in an Enterprise Organisation

Microsoft has recently made numerous improvements in the way Power BI can be used effectively in an enterprise organisation such as TalkTalk.

This has led the TalkTalk to investigate how it could be integrated into their future data strategy.

In their talk Kris and Matt will give an overview of 2 Power BI proofs of concept they have delivered, sharing their experiences both positive and negative.

One overview will focus on the use of Power BI alongside Azure and one will focus on their review of Power BI on premise.

Agenda:

17:15 - 18:00 Registration & Networking

18:00 - 19:00 Steph Locke

19:30 - 20:30 Matt Hoole & Kris Atherton - TalkTalk -

Power BI in an Enterprise Organisation

As always Pizza & Beers :) provided by our sponsors Robert Walters