PRPASS November 2014 Meeting - Exploring Puerto Rico Open Data with Power BI

1. Exploring Puerto Rico Open Data
with Power BI
Guillermo Caicedo
Chapter Leader | PRPASS
Consultant | Nagnoi
@sqltitan | sqltitan.com

2. Agenda
• Self-Service BI
• Power BI Overview
• Demos
‐ Puerto Rico Open Data Initiatives
‐ Power Query / Power Pivot / Power View / Power Map
‐ Power BI Portal
‐ Mobile

3. Self-Service BI
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• La meta es proveerle las herramientas a los analistas para que puedan
diseñar e implementar sus propias soluciones de BI en una arquitectura
aprobada y soportada por IT
‐ Disminuye la dependencia en IT por recursos y datos
• No reemplaza iniciativas de inteligencia de negocio corporativas, las
complementa.
• Un buen proceso de “data governance” aumentará la adopción de BI y
ayudará a mitigar el riesgo

4. Excel: foundation of self-service analytics
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Share
Clean
Mash-up
Explore
Report
Visualize

5. Corporate BI
Self-Service BI with Power BI
ETL
Power
Query
DATAWAREHOUSE
Power
Pivot
VISUALIZATION
Power View
Power Map
PORTAL
Power BI
VISUALIZATION
Power View
Power Map
Q&A

6. Self-Service BI with Power BI
Discover Analyze Visualize Share Find
Mobile
Q&A
Add-ins to prepare, model,
and visualize data:
 Power Query
 Power Pivot
 Power View
 Power Map
O365 adds additional capabilities:
 Collaboration, Sharing, Viewing
 Scheduled Data Refresh
 Q&A (Natural Language)
 Mobile App
 Enterprise Search
 Share & Certify Queries

7. Power Query

8. Powerful self-service BI with Excel 2013

9. Power Query
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• Extract
• Cleanse
• Combine & Transform Multiple Data Sources
• Powerful new data language (M)
‐ Functional programming expressions
‐ Built via wizard or coded
‐ Like DAX for modeling, but for data transformation
• Share

10. S
Data sources
Windows Azure
Marketplace
Windows Active
Directory
Azure SQL
Database
Azure HDInsight

11. Power Pivot

12. Powerful self-service BI with Excel 2013

13. Power Pivot
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• Data modeling and processing engine
• Ad-hoc large data analysis
• In-memory analytics (xVelocity)
• Fast, compressed, interactive
• Data integration
• Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
• No IT department support needed

14. Power View

15. Powerful self-service BI with Excel 2013

16. Power View
• Interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation
experience
‐ Highly visual design experience
‐ Rich meta-driven interactivity
‐ Presentation-ready at all times
• It delivers intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users
• Reports can be based on Power Pivot data models, including
tabular data models
• Available in Excel 2013:

17. Power Map

18. Powerful self-service BI with Excel 2013

19. Power Map
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• Excel add-in to enhance data visualization
• Rich, animated, automatic geospatial visualization
• Interactive exploration
• Geocoding
‐ Location data is necessary (lon/lat)
‐ Text data: city names, etc.
• Layering
• Story-telling

20. Power BI Sites

21. Collaborate and stay connected with Office 365
Q&A

22. Power BI Sites
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• Customizes a SharePoint Online site for Power BI purposes
and activities
• Managed and provisioned by Microsoft
‐ Built on Office 365 SharePoint Online
• Support workbooks up to 250mb in size
• Mobile
• On-premises/cloud (hybrid) data refresh
‐ Data Management Gateway for On-premises data access

23. Q & A

24. Collaborate and stay connected with Office 365
Q&A

25. Q & A
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• Natural-language query within workbooks
• Submitted questions in English are responded to with data
visualizations and reports
• Automatic
• Visual
• Customizable

26. Mobile BI

27. Collaborate and stay connected with Office 365
Q&A

28. Demo
Puerto Rico Open Data Initiatives

29. Open Data Portals
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30. Power BI Environment
Power BI App
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Power BI O365 Tenant
Power BI
Admin
Center
Data
Management
Gateway
On-
Premises
Cloud Access
OData Feeds
Data Catalog
Site Site
My Power BI Site
External
Q&A Data
Power Query
Power Pivot
Power View
Power Map
Visualize
Excel
Search / Share
Publish
Mobile App
Power BI Site
Consume
Data
Refresh