Milwaukee Brew City PUG – June 2020

July 1, 2020 By Mike Carlo

This month’s Milwaukee Power BI User group we have Reza Rad from Radacad.com. Reza has a long history within the Power BI MVP community. His presentation this month is about how to use dataflows and shared datasets.

Check out the recorded session below.

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Like Reza’s training, visit the additional learning materials from Reza.
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Get the training: https://learn.radacad.com/product/academy-membership/

Download Presentation Slides: https://bit.ly/2YNmBW3

Follow Reza

Catch Reza on LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/rezarad
Visit the website: https://radacad.com/
Books from Reza: https://radacad.com/ourbooks

Learn more about dataflows:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/service-dataflows-overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/service-dataflows-create-use#creating-a-dataflow

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