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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