Baton Rouge Analytics & Intelligence Network meeting - June 2024

About BRAIN (http://gobrain.org): BRAIN's mission is to help its members and businesses in the Baton Rouge area, by providing a platform to network and share expertise in the areas of Analytics, Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. BRAIN is for both technical and business users - any and all who are interested in business analytics, data visualization, modeling, Artificial Intelligence, traditional business intelligence, and everything in between.

You may bring in your BI problems and we'll add it to the queue and discuss as time allows after the presentations are over.

AGENDA:

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Networking & Pizza

6:00 pm – Until: Introductions followed by presentations & discussions

Sponsor: BRAIN

Topic: Using the Latest Power BI Updates to Visualize OpenDataBR
(Thomas LeBlanc | Business intelligence Architect and Microsoft Data Platform MVP)

Details: Thomas LeBlanc, Business intelligence Architect and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, will take you on a journey through the latest updates to Power BI like Window functions and Co-Polit in Smart narratives using data from OpenDataBR. Come see what datasets are available to help build a cool application or report for the Hackathon competition for SQLSaturday Baton Rouge on August 27th at the LSU Business Education Complex.

Bio: Thomas LeBlanc is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has spent 15+ years as a Data Warehouse Manager and Business Intelligence Architect consultant in Baton Rouge, LA along with 15+ year as a Database Administrator specializing in SQL Server, Microsoft Business Intelligence Services (SSIS, SSAS & SSRS) and Power BI. Starting as a COBOL developer while in college as Louisiana State University, he has also been a developer, report writer, trainer and documentation writer. Thomas has been a recent and frequent speaker at PASS Summit, SQLSaturday, Live360, VSLive and Power Platform events. Microsoft has recognized Thomas as a Data Platform MVP for the past 6(maybe 7) years.

Meeting Details:

Meeting: BRAIN June 2024

When: 06/27/2024 05:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Where: 6222 Jones Creek Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70817 (Jones Creek Library)

Join BRAIN:

Website: http://www.gobrain.org/

Email: [email protected]

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