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The DELWP Power BI Vic Water Grid & New Power BI Features coming in 2021: Power BI and Data Analytics for Enviro’s (MAY 2021)

Christian Borovac

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)

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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:

  1. Vic Water Challenges: Visualising the main water resource challenges facing the state.

  2. Vic Water Grid: Presenting the State’s existing infrastructure and assets for water supply, water movements and also various projects happening across the Grid.

  3. Urban Water: Highlighting urban water pressures and augmentation strategies for Victorian Water Corporations

  4. Rural Water: Visualising the unique challenges and potential solutions for declared rural water systems in Victoria.

  5. 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)

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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:

  1. Goals

  2. Automated Insights

  3. Bookmark and Page Navigators

  4. Modern visual tooltips

  5. Sparklines

  6. Hybrid tables

  7. View reports in Augmented Reality

  8. Automatic Aggregations on DirectQuery

  9. Enhanced Teams Integration

  10. Paginated Reports visual

  11. Connect Excel to Power BI Dataset

  12. Power Query over streaming data

  13. 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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And if you have ideas for a future session then please let us know at info@discoverei.com .

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