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Explicit Measures Podcast

The Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI centric show with Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia.

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The Podcast airs live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 AM CST (-6 UTC) on YouTube. You can follow on the PowerBI.Tips YouTube Channel, and check LinkedIn and Twitter for links to the live streams.

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About the Podcast

We just love talking about Power BI. Many of our conversations would be common around your water cooler at work. So many available resources in the community focus on the "how" in Power BI — for example, how to do Drill Through, or how to use DAX. The Explicit Measures Podcast is all about the WHY.

Addressing the Why

The Podcast speaks to these additional topics. We aim to put practical knowledge in your hands. We hope you will enjoy our bi-weekly podcast.

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Episodes

Ep. 507 AI-Assisted TMDL Workflow & Hot Reload – Ep. 507 Mar 4, 2026
Ep. 506 Filter Overload – Ep. 506 Feb 27, 2026
Ep. 505 Excel vs. Field Parameters – Ep. 505 Feb 25, 2026
Ep. 504 Living in a Direct Lake World – Ep. 504 Feb 20, 2026
Ep. 503 Hiring the Report Developer – Ep. 503 Feb 18, 2026
Ep. 502 Trusting In Microsoft Fabric – Ep. 502 Feb 13, 2026
Ep. 501 Central BI & Workspace Strategies - Ep. 501 Feb 12, 2026
Ep. 500 We Made It! Episode 500 of Explicit Measures Feb 6, 2026
Ep. 499 Late Adopter Advantage? AI Readiness - Ep. 499 Feb 12, 2026
Ep. 498 Define the Problem Before Tools – Ep. 498 Jan 29, 2026
Ep. 497 Remote Fabric Jupyter & Local VS Code – Ep. 497 Jan 28, 2026
Ep. 496 Experience Overuse – Ep. 496 Jan 23, 2026
Ep. 495 Do You Really Need Fabric? – Ep. 495 Jan 21, 2026
Ep. 494 MCP Your Fabric Data – Ep. 494 Jan 16, 2026
Ep. 493 AI Drives Fabric Success – Ep. 493 Jan 14, 2026
Ep. 492 Fabric Awards – Ep. 492 Jan 9, 2026
Ep. 491 Our Fabric Resolutions – Ep. 491 Jan 7, 2026
Ep. 490 Revisiting Dataflows Gen 2 – Ep. 490 Jan 2, 2026
Ep. 489 Why Fabric IQ Will Cause Friction – Ep. 489 Dec 31, 2025
Ep. 488 Power BI Secret Santa – Ep. 488 Dec 26, 2025
Ep. 487 The Intelligence Developer – Ep. 487 Dec 24, 2025
Ep. 486 Backwards Ontology – Ep. 486 Dec 19, 2025
Ep. 485 1-Click Notebooks – Ep. 485 Dec 17, 2025
Ep. 484 Data Governance with Fabric IQ – Ep. 484 Dec 12, 2025
Ep. 483 Semantic Modeling on the Web – Ep. 483 Dec 10, 2025
Ep. 482 Microsoft Ignite & November Recap – Ep. 482 Dec 5, 2025
Ep. 481 From Fragmented Models to Unified Semantics – Ep. 481 Dec 3, 2025
Ep. 480 Why Product Teams Should Own Data – Ep. 480 Nov 28, 2025
Ep. 479 Tracking App Usage at Scale – Ep. 479 Nov 26, 2025
Ep. 478 Untangling Workspace, Branching, and Artifact Chaos – Ep. 478 Nov 21, 2025
Ep. 477 Start with the Why – Ep. 477 Nov 19, 2025
Ep. 476 New Feature Semantic Bridge – Ep. 476 Nov 14, 2025
Ep. 475 Source Control in BI: Necessary, Painful, or Both? – Ep. 475 Nov 12, 2025
Ep. 474 Modeling Without the Keyboard – Ep. 474 Nov 7, 2025
Ep. 473 DevEx for Pros: UDFs, the Tools That Stick – Ep. 473 Nov 5, 2025
Ep. 472 Getting Started with Real Time Intelligence – Ep. 472 Oct 31, 2025
Ep. 471 Data Modeling in Event Driven Architectures – Ep. 471 Oct 29, 2025
Ep. 470 Measure Total Shenanigans – Ep. 470 Oct 24, 2025
Ep. 469 PBIP or PBIX? – Ep. 469 Oct 22, 2025
Ep. 468 Action Systems + AI Applications – Ep. 468 Oct 17, 2025
Ep. 467 What Is Real-Time Intelligence? – Ep. 467 Oct 15, 2025
Ep. 466 Data Agents and Semantic Models – Ep. 466 Oct 10, 2025
Ep. 465 Subscription Use Cases – Ep. 465 Oct 8, 2025
Ep. 464 Is Microsoft Fabric Business Intelligence? – Ep. 464 Oct 3, 2025
Ep. 463 User Defined Functions in DAX – Ep. 463 Oct 1, 2025
Ep. 462 Microsoft Fabric Feature Pyramid – Ep. 462 Sep 26, 2025
Ep. 461 Fabcon Vienna – Ep. 461 Sep 24, 2025
Ep. 460 Composite Models vs Reusable Datasets – Ep. 460 Sep 19, 2025
Ep. 459 Initial Impressions of Data Agents – Ep. 459 Sep 17, 2025
Ep. 458 The Fabric Magic Wand – Ep. 458 Sep 12, 2025
Ep. 457 Planning Your Capacity – Ep. 457 Sep 12, 2025
Ep. 456 Accessibility: Methods, Process, and Adoption – Ep. 456 Sep 3, 2025
Ep. 455 Power BI Report Accessibility – Ep. 455 Sep 5, 2025
Ep. 454 Looking at the Warehouse Roadmap – Ep. 454 Aug 29, 2025
Ep. 453 Creature Comforts of Data Warehouse – Ep. 453 Aug 27, 2025
Ep. 452 Calculation Groups in Practice – Ep. 452 Aug 22, 2025
Ep. 451 Lets Talk SQL and New Features: The Future? – Ep. 451 Aug 20, 2025
Ep. 450 The End of the Line for Datamarts – Ep. 450 Aug 15, 2025
Ep. 449 Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse vs. Warehouse – Ep. 449 Aug 13, 2025
Ep. 448 UI For Easy Ingestion Leads to Issues – Ep. 448 Aug 8, 2025
Ep. 447 Translytical Is So Much More – Ep. 447 Aug 6, 2025
Ep. 446 AI Is Now Ready – SQLBI – Ep. 446 Aug 1, 2025
Ep. 445 Evolution of an Analyst – Ep. 445 Jul 30, 2025
Ep. 444 Optimal Power BI Architecture in Fabric – Ep. 444 Jul 25, 2025
Ep. 443 Future-Proofing Excel – Ep. 443 Jul 23, 2025
Ep. 442 What's up with DAX? – Ep. 442 Jul 18, 2025
Ep. 441 What is Your Numeracy? – Ep. 441 Jul 16, 2025
Ep. 440 A Reflection of 10 Years with Power BI – Ep. 440 Jul 11, 2025
Ep. 439 Fabric June 2025 Feature Draft – Ep. 439 Jul 9, 2025
Ep. 438 Who Owns the Connection? Managing Access and Chaos in Fabric Pipelines – Ep. 438 Jul 4, 2025
Ep. 437 Small Business with Power BI and Fabric – Ep. 437 Jul 2, 2025
Ep. 436 Deep Dive on CI/CD Branching Strategy – Ep. 436 Jun 27, 2025
Ep. 435 DataOps is the Future of Power BI Teams – Ep. 435 Jun 25, 2025
Ep. 434 Top Down and Bottom Up DevOps – Ep. 434 Jun 20, 2025
Ep. 433 DevOps and You, Your Team, and Your Data – Ep. 433 Jun 18, 2025
Ep. 432 We Just Want to View Reports! – Ep. 432 Jun 13, 2025
Ep. 431 What’s New in Microsoft Fabric CI/CD – Ep. 431 Jun 11, 2025
Ep. 430 Build for AI or Build for Reports? – Ep. 430 Jun 6, 2025
Ep. 429 Shortcut Mania! Use Cases for Shortcuts – Ep. 429 Jun 4, 2025
Ep. 428 Adopting Copilot Standalone for Power BI – Ep. 428 May 30, 2025
Ep. 427 What Microsoft Build Means For You – Ep. 427 May 28, 2025
Ep. 426 Introducing Advanced Analytics to Organizations – Ep. 426 May 23, 2025
Ep. 425 Are We Still Self Service Or Drifting Back to Corporate BI – Ep. 425 May 20, 2025
Ep. 424 Uses for TMDL & VS Code – Ep. 424 May 16, 2025
Ep. 423 Tools in Power BI – Ep. 423 May 14, 2025
Ep. 422 Max Performance in Power Query – Ep. 422 May 9, 2025
Ep. 421 Power Query, Skills to Know and Learn – Ep. 421 May 7, 2025
Ep. 420 Half Baked Ideas – Ep. 420 May 2, 2025
Ep. 419 Do we Design Lakehouse Differently Now? – Ep. 419 Apr 30, 2025
Ep. 418 Education for a Data Scientist in the Age of Fabric? – Ep. 418 Apr 25, 2025
Ep. 417 Is Now the Time for Data Scientists to Switch to Fabric? – Ep. 417 Apr 23, 2025
Ep. 416 Should Data Scientists Care about PBI? – Ep. 416 Apr 18, 2025
Ep. 415 Data Science Platforms Replacing Traditional BI? – Ep. 415 Apr 16, 2025
Ep. 414 DAX and Semantic Models at FabCon – Ep. 414 Apr 11, 2025
Ep. 413 FabCon Rundown – Ep. 413 Apr 9, 2025
Ep. 412 Giving People Their Data - Subscriptions? – Ep. 412 Apr 4, 2025
Ep. 411 Data Contracts in PBI and Fabric – Ep. 411 Apr 2, 2025
Ep. 410 Agile and Power BI Reports – Ep. 410 Mar 28, 2025
Ep. 409 Selling a Google Data Shop Power BI – Ep. 409 Mar 26, 2025
Ep. 408 DAX Performance Testing – Ep. 408 Mar 21, 2025
Ep. 407 Pie Charts Are Not The End Of The World – Ep. 407 Mar 19, 2025
Ep. 406 Investing $100 in Fabric and Power BI – Ep. 406 Mar 14, 2025
Ep. 405 Naming Conventions – Ep. 405 Mar 12, 2025
Ep. 404 Managing Multiple Datasets – Ep. 404 Mar 7, 2025
Ep. 403 Composite Models Review – Ep. 403 Mar 5, 2025
Ep. 402 Journey of a Citizen Developer – Ep. 402 Feb 28, 2025
Ep. 401 SQL Databases - What, Why, How? – Ep. 401 Feb 26, 2025
Ep. 400 Choose a Data Store - Fabric Decision Guide – Ep. 400 Feb 21, 2025
497 Instructions for AI: Get the Data Feb 4, 2026
Introducing the Explicit Measures Podcast May 4, 2021