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November 26, 2025
A consultant managing 120+ Power BI dashboards across 70 school districts asks: what's the best way to track app-level usage at scale? Mike and Tommy break down the monitoring landscape—from built-in usage metrics to admin APIs and Fabric capacity metrics.
November 19, 2025
Another mailbag episode where Mike and Tommy emphasize the most important question in any data project: what problem are you actually trying to solve? Before picking tools, building pipelines, or designing models—start with the why.
November 27, 2024
Mike, Tommy, and Seth dig into listener questions - focusing on datamarts, citizen developer workflows, and how teams should think about tooling and access constraints.
August 9, 2024
In this mailbag episode, the crew talks through writeback scenarios in Microsoft Fabric and how to think about building practical, maintainable solutions.
February 23, 2024
A listener asks how to help analysts find the unexpected “aha” insight inside a governed Power BI experience—without exporting everything to Excel. The team revisits Ep. 294 and outlines where exploratory analysis fits, what audiences need, and which Power BI/Fabric tools actually enable discovery.
February 2, 2024
It's mailbag time. In Ep. 290, Mike, Tommy, and Seth answer listener questions on adopting Power BI in a Google/BigQuery environment, surviving terminology changes like 'dataset' to 'semantic model', and balancing process vs. technology as tools evolve.