Data DiscoverEI

In this session, Dr. Ayman Alafifi shared real-world examples of how public water providers and private consumers can use Power BI to forecast water demand, compare and rank water supply alternatives, and plan for an uncertain future.

Dr Jason Hamer (dARTa) presented on The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) data-driven journey to become a sustainable campus. While the focus was on UWA’s internal and external sustainability dashboards, Jason also showcased the backend architecture that makes them possible, provided some amazing Power BI tips and tricks and shared his story and journey towards working with Power BI for the environmental industry..

Dredging projects are critical to maintaining or establishing navigational access to ports, waterways and maritime infrastructure. Engagement and reporting to various internal and external stakeholders are required for these unique projects. Dredging project data collection and reporting can be timely and cumbersome. This ‘one stop shop’ Power BI reporting dashboard is used to track and communicate results from dredging projects. The session focused on a range of tech, including: Logic Apps; Azure Functions and SQL; SharePoint Excel files and Power BI aka the hero tool!.

For our December 2022 session, we were lucky to have Matt Allington (Microsoft MVP Data Platform - Sydney, Australia) joining us again to share his Power BI report presenting streamflow data from the most recent October floods that impacted much of Australia. Matt has been posting daily updates about impacts to the Big Bend region through his YouTube channel, which you can keep up-to-date with on his YouTube channel (Excelerator BI YouTube)

Our thoughts remain with anyone that has been or is being impacted by these devastating floods, especially those within our meetup community❤️ !

For our November 2022 session, it was all about DAX, and more specifically DAX for Enviro's using environmental dataset examples. Alice ran through some common DAX patterns for a range of environmental applications such as, and then Greg Nash and Sam Fischer supported a robust Q&A on DAX.

For our October 2022 session, we had Michael Crothers from Wannon Water presenting on the Data Analysis & Reporting Scope Considerations Framework he has been developing for Power BI report creators. Michael shared elements of the framework, how it is being applied along with Power BI examples.

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: https://research.csiro.au/seltmp/explore-dashboards-here/

For our August 2022 session, we had the pleasure of having Belinda Walters (Communications Lead - Greater Melbourne Urban Water & System Strategy) and DiscoverEI’s very own Alice Drummond (co-founder DiscoverEI) present on the Water for Life strategy Power BI report: https://waterforlifestrategy.com.au/

For our July 2022 session, we had the pleasure of having Will Thompson (Microsoft Power BI Program Manager) present on the recent demo Power BI report from the Gartner Bake-Off Summit. You can also see Will's demo at the Gartner Bake-Off summit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGjJ-dY01NA

For our June 2022 session Shannon Lindsay shared a recent Workout Wednesday challenge, where we created a custom theme in Power BI, in an effort to build a report exploring the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This session covered the creation of a custom theme, the use of images and icons, and tips and tricks to customize your Power BI reports.

For our April 2022 Power BI 4 Enviro’s session, we had Matt Allington (Australian Microsoft MVP) presenting on his rainwater tank Power BI report. If you want to be good at Power BI, you must get practice. That doesn’t mean you have to practice at work. You can also get practice in at home. In this session, Matt stepped through a process of creating a Power BI report from scratch to determine what size rain water tank is needed for a new property/house.

In this session, Pragati took us through her Global carbon dioxide emissions public data Power BI report, and how she generated a quick report keeping in mind what insights can be derived from this data. Her version of the report for your interest is available here: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Data-Stories-Gallery/Global-CO2-Emissions-Analysis/td-p/2313590