CSIRO Great Barrier Reef SELTMP Power BI Dashboards
Alice Drummond
The "Power BI and Data Analytics for Enviros" meetup group is all about sharing tips, tricks and hacks for analysing, visualising and communicating environmental data. The purpose of this blog is to summarise the key take-aways from the sessions, to help with sharing knowledge, empowering others and creating a strong data culture across our community.
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Session Summary
For our September 2022 session, we were excited to have Dr. Petina Pert from CSIRO, presenting alongside Alice Drummond and Daniel Marsh-Patrick from DiscoverEI on the Great Barrier Reef SELTMP Power BI Dashboards. Petina provided context to the project and the SELTMP survey results for 2021, and how they compare to previous years.
Alice and Daniel then jumped into the Power BI file, focusing on various data storytelling techniques used, some tips for visualising survey data and the Deneb Power BI custom visual used in the report.
Dr Petina Pert has been a Spatial Analyst with CSIRO Land and Water since 2006 with an interest in developing geospatial technologies and decision support tools for natural resource management. Dr Pert’s research investigates how to make better use of resources through the use of spatial tools to prioritise natural resource management decisions and investment. Dr Pert is also an Associate Editor for the international journal Ecological Indicators and has previously worked on spatial habitat prioritisation and visualisation of data and developed ecological indicators to assist in describing the status and trends of Wet Tropics biodiversity and ecosystem services. Currently she is focused on socio-ecological systems and incorporating the human dimension into her work working with social scientists, economists and human geographers as well as communities.
During his career across the UK and New Zealand, Daniel has been helping drive enterprise-wide solutions through process and software engineering; predominantly through Business Intelligence (BI), data visualisation and software integration. He is extremely passionate about the Microsoft BI stack, particularly Power BI, and has been delivering Power BI solutions since 2014. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a contributor of free and open-source custom visuals to the Power BI Marketplace, a Power BI Community Super User and regularly presents and blogs on a variety of Power BI subjects. Daniel is also an industry partner with DiscoverEI, transforming environmental data into decisions. Daniel aims to empower people with the knowledge and tools to make their workdays easier by using software and/or common sense to eliminate the tedious bits. He enjoys sharing the knowledge he has gained with anyone that has the inspiration and desire to learn these skills for themselves.
Alice is the Director of Environmental Analytics and Co-Founder of DiscoverEI. As a Microsoft MVP in the Data Platform, Alice brings her passion in combining Power BI with design to bring environmental data to life. Drawing on her background in environmental engineering, Alice works collaboratively with government organisations to turn mountains of data into practical, useful, decision-guiding insights, and gets a real buzz from training the next generation of data champions, and is a regular speaker at community events and conferences. In her free time she enjoys running and exploring local coastal routes down along the Mornington Peninsula, and looking after her little 8-month old Caleb!
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