Explicit Measures Podcast

Explicit Measures Podcast

Hosted by Mike Carlo, and Tommy Puglia, the Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI focused show that is like being around a Power BI Pro’s Water Cooler. With so many available resources in the community that focuses on the “how” in Power BI (how to do Drill Through, how to use DAX, etc.,), the Explicit Measures Podcast is all around the WHY. Why use a particular feature, does it make sense for my users? Build the toolset, learn the how, and then come to the Podcast to the listen to the why in situations we all experience as Power BI Pros.

Episodes

April 22, 2025 63 mins

Mike & Tommy are joined by Ginger Grant to dive into how do we get Data Scientists into the Fabric playground.


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Mike & Tommy are joined again by Ginger Grant talking about the world of Data Science & Power BI, and can the worlds collide? First half is about LLMs and Agents and now... Vibe Fabric?


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Mike & Tommy are joined by Ginger Grant on diving into how integrated Data Science with Fabric, and where the gaps still are.


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April 15, 2025 58 mins

Mike & Tommy dive into a a great article by Marco Russo about what the future of DAX and Semantic Models after the FabCon announcements.

https://www.sqlbi.com/blog/marco/2025/04/04/dax-and-semantic-models-announcements-at-the-fabric-conference-2025/

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April 15, 2025 63 mins

Mike & Tommy try to run through all of the major announcements at the Fabric Conference in Las Vegas and making sense of it all.


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Mike & Tommy run through the relevance of Email Subscriptions and if they are still a great resource for organizations.

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Mike & Tommy discuss successes and traps for applying development processes to Business Intelligence.


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Mike & dive through a great question on how to sell a Google Data StuTommydio (& Others) on Power BI.

how can we sell PBI to a google shop company? How easy can PBI fit in a new data platform in an org? If we use google, big query etc.

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March 24, 2025 59 mins

Mike & Tommy run through the Fabric Toolbox on GitHub.

https://daxnoob.blog/2025/03/03/fabric-tools-dax-performance-testing/

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Mike and Tommy dive through another stellar article by Kurt Buhler on the argument for and against pie charts.

1https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/using-pie-charts-is-not-the-end-of-the-world/



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Get in touch:

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Mike & Tommy go through a question from our mailbag on how to manage multiple datasets in Power BI.

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Where do composite models fit in Power BI with the introduction of Fabric and the growth of Managed Self Service? Mike & Tommy dive in to the state of Composite Models.


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Mike & Tommy answer a great mailbag question on what it means to be a Citizen Developer in an organization with a low Data Culture.

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Mike & Tommy dive into an amazing article by Data Mozart on SQL Databases:

https://data-mozart.com/fabric-sql-database-what-why-and-how/


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Mike & Tommy reflect on 400 episodes and 4 years of Power BI, and dive into the best path forward for where to store your data.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/decision-guide-data-store?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621


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With the onset of Microsoft Fabric SQL Databases, where do we put our Reference tables?


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Mike & Tommy have a heated debate on when to choose modeling our Semantic Models in the Service over other methods.

Edit data models in service

https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/service-edit-data-models?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621

Direct Lake in Power BI Desktop

https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/fundamentals/direct-lake-power-bi-desktop?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621


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