The DELWP Power BI Vic Water Grid & New Power BI Features coming in 2021: Power BI and Data Analytics for Enviro’s (MAY 2021)
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 each of the presenters, to help with sharing knowledge, empowering others and creating a strong data culture within our community.
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In May, we had Meg Pillai and Rhiannon Kenn (Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning i.e. DELWP) sharing the Vic Water Grid public website and the series of Power BI reports used to create it. We also had Sam Fischer share with us some of his favourite features announced in the most recent MBAS conference, so we could understand what’s on the Power BI roadmap. You can watch the entire recording in the video above, or skip ahead to the sections that interest you by clicking on the individual videos below. The blog is connected to our Meetup group and YouTube channel recording, so we would LOVE to have you subscribe to these and become part of our growing community 😊.
The Vic Water Grid (VWG)
Meg Pillai and Rhiannon Kenn (DELWP)
▶️ Skip ahead to the DELWP session on the VWG▶️
Rhiannon and Meg presented the recently released digital Victorian Water Grid (VWG), which included a series of Power BI reports. The tool can be viewed here: https://www.water.vic.gov.au/water-grid-and-markets/the-grid and it shows 5 main Power BI reports, including:
Vic Water Challenges: Visualising the main water resource challenges facing the state.
Vic Water Grid: Presenting the State’s existing infrastructure and assets for water supply, water movements and also various projects happening across the Grid.
Urban Water: Highlighting urban water pressures and augmentation strategies for Victorian Water Corporations
Rural Water: Visualising the unique challenges and potential solutions for declared rural water systems in Victoria.
Traditional Owner, Environmental and Recreational: A summary of Traditional Owner cultural water, along with environmental and recreational water values.
The Water Challenges Power BI report using the synoptic panel and dynamic text
The VWG Power BI report using the synoptic panel and dynamic text
New Power BI Features: 2021
Sam Fischer (Revenite)
▶️ Skip ahead in the video to listen to Sam’s run-down of upcoming features and a robust Q&A with the audience ▶️
In this video Sam Fischer (aka the Power BI Guru) gives a great run-down on some of his favourite MBAS roadmap announcements and why they’re gamechangers - the full list included:
Goals
Automated Insights
Bookmark and Page Navigators
Modern visual tooltips
Sparklines
Hybrid tables
View reports in Augmented Reality
Automatic Aggregations on DirectQuery
Enhanced Teams Integration
Paginated Reports visual
Connect Excel to Power BI Dataset
Power Query over streaming data
Quick create report from SharePoint list
We recommend following Sam’s blog: Apex Insights, to keep up-to-date with all things Power BI and data visualisation!!
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