Posts tagged Power BI
Using Power BI to make carbon abatement investment decisions!
Using Power BI to make carbon abatement investment decisions!

Investments in projects that aim to capture and store carbon in vegetation and soils are often based on potential cost-effectiveness. That approach can overlook the people and communities who live where these projects happen – the very people whose participation and support determine whether initiatives succeed. To bring social and economic contexts and impacts into the frame, the CSIRO team developed a Social Intel for Sustainable Investment Decisions dashboard with DiscoverEI to spark dialogue with partners around the social and economic data that could help inform investment decisions. Dashboard available: https://research.csiro.au/vsfsp/valuing-local-provenance/.

This session drew on a new open access paper published in Sustainability Science (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-025-01729-0), that shows how social measures could help inform carbon abatement investment decisions. The paper describes work from a partnership between a project team in CSIRO’s Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform and the Queensland Government’s Land Restoration Fund.

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Meetup Group, Power BIChristian BorovacDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BI, emissionsComment
Deep dive into the DCCEEW Biodiversity Indicator Program Power BI Report
Deep dive into the DCCEEW Biodiversity Indicator Program Power BI Report

This session presented the innovative Power BI techniques used to create the DCCEEW (NSW State Government) Biodiversity Indicator Program (BIP) Power BI Report, viewable here: https://www.seed.nsw.gov.au/nsw-biodiversity-indicator-program-habitat-condition-dashboard

From an environmental perspective, the tool reports on the state and trends of biodiversity and ecological integrity across key areas in NSW. From a Power BI perspective, the session presented on some key features to include for public facing tools, and touched on some great Power BI hacks!

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Meetup Group, Power BIChristian BorovacDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BI, Artificial IntelligenceComment
The current state of AI in the world of Data and Analytics with Greg Nash
The current state of AI in the world of Data and Analytics with Greg Nash

AI is reshaping industries faster than we ever imagined, and nowhere is this impact more profound than in the world of structured data. With tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and generative AI becoming mainstream, there's a growing fear - and excitement - that AI might be coming for our data jobs. But what's really happening?

In this session, Greg takes us through the current state of AI in the context of structured data and analytics, cutting through hype to understand what's genuinely possible, what's at risk, and what opportunities are emerging for data professionals. It was a robust and engaging discussion which helped to clarify the realistic understanding of AI's impact on structured data roles and how to position yourself (and your team) to stay ahead.

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Meetup Group, Power BIChristian BorovacDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BI, Artificial IntelligenceComment
Visualising guidelines and exceedances in Power BI
Visualising guidelines and exceedances in Power BI

We often assess environmental data against one (or more) guidelines but it can be notoriously challenging to model, calculate and visualise inside of Power BI. In this session Alice explored some real-world tips and tricks for working with guidelines and exceedances in Power BI, and Daniel showcased a custom Deneb visual he created to highlight water quality exceedances over time, and share his lessons learnt for improving report efficiency!!

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Meetup Group, Power BIAlice DrummondDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BIComment
Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) Healthy Waterway Explorer Power BI Report
Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) Healthy Waterway Explorer Power BI Report

The DiscoverEI and Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) team worked together to create the public-facing healthy waterway explorer dashboard (available here: https://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/waterquality).

In the session Amy StLawrence (BMCC Aquatic Systems Officer) and Alice Drummond discuss the project from start to finish, including: challenges faced; meeting the teams' vision for the report and arriving at the final solution.

The session also explored useful Power BI techniques and visualisations for showcasing this type of environmental water quality and waterbug data, to help inform data-driven decision making across the region.

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Meetup Group, Power BIAlice DrummondDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BIComment
Using GenAI and Power BI - Fossil Hunting in Kansas
Using GenAI and Power BI - Fossil Hunting in Kansas

In this conversation, Mark McClure discusses various AI tools, particularly focusing on ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and Copilot, and their applications in data analysis and research. He demonstrates how to gather data for fossil hunting in Kansas using these tools, organize it in Excel, and visualize it in Power BI. The discussion emphasizes the importance of experimenting with AI tools and showcases practical steps for data manipulation and visualization.

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Meetup Group, Power BI, GenAIAlice DrummondDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BIComment
Exploring the DCCEEW Flood Recovery Power BI Dashboard
Exploring the DCCEEW Flood Recovery Power BI Dashboard

In this session, Alice & Christian from DiscoverEI deep-dived into exploring the recently completed DCCEEW (NSW State Government) Flood Recovery Power BI Dashboard. It is a public dashboard available via the EPA NSW website: https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/reporting-and-incidents/flood-recovery-programs/water-quality-monitoring-program/flood-recovery-program-east-coast-dashboard.

The session focused on explaining the context behind the tool, then identifying several Power BI techniques adopted to allow for the dynamic user interface. This included Power Query steps, the data model creation, DAX calcs and various visuals including the more advanced Icon Map features. We hope you learn more about Power BI's functionality from viewing this video

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Meetup Group, Dashboard Design, Power BIAlice DrummondDiscover EIMeetup, Learning, Empowering, Environmental, Power BIComment