Explicit Measures Podcast

Explicit Measures Podcast

By PowerBI.Tips

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.
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405: Naming Conventions in Microsoft Fabric

Explicit Measures PodcastMar 18, 2025
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425: Are We Still Self Service Or Drifting Back to Corporate BI?
May 20, 202559:45
424: TMDL & VSCode
May 15, 202501:03:28
423: Tools in Power BI
May 14, 202542:20
422: Max Performance in Power Query
May 08, 202501:08:39
421: Power Query with Mr. Powers - Skills to Know & Learn
May 06, 202501:02:49
420: Microsoft Fabric Half-Baked Ideas
May 01, 202501:04:55
419: Do We Design Lakehouses Differently Now?
May 01, 202501:01:50
418: What Does Education Look Like for a Data Scientist in the Age of Fabric?
May 01, 202501:04:41
417: Is Now The Time for Data Scientists to Switch to Fabric?
Apr 22, 202501:03:54
416: How Much should Data Scientists Care about Power BI?
Apr 17, 202501:03:57
415: The Future of Data Science In Microsoft Fabric
Apr 15, 202501:00:44
414: DAX and Semantic Models at FabCon
Apr 15, 202558:29
413: FabCon Rundown 2025
Apr 15, 202501:03:55
412: Giving People Their Data - Subscriptions?
Apr 03, 202555:12
411: Data Contracts & Microsoft Fabric
Apr 01, 202548:39
410: Applying Agile Development in Power BI
Mar 27, 202541:40
409: Mailbag! Selling a Google Shop Company Power BI
Mar 25, 202554:58
408: The Fabric Toolbox Deep Dive
Mar 24, 202559:02
407: Pie Charts Are Not The End Of The World
Mar 20, 202557:46
406: If I was Arun Ulag; Spending $100 on Fabric
Mar 18, 202501:05:42
405: Naming Conventions in Microsoft Fabric
Mar 18, 202501:01:59
404: MAILBAG! Managing Multiple Datasets in Power BI
Mar 08, 202501:01:14
403: Discussing Composite Models In Power BI (Again)
Mar 04, 202553:37
402: Mailbag! Poor Data Culture & Citizen Developer
Feb 27, 202501:05:10
401: SQL Databases in Fabric - What, When, How?
Feb 26, 202501:06:28
400: (400!) - Fabric Decision Guide - Choose a Data Store
Feb 20, 202501:06:29
399: Dataflows Gen 1 vs. Microsoft Fabric SQL
Feb 18, 202501:01:40
398: When Are We Using Semantic Modeling in the Service?
Feb 15, 202559:12
397: Semantic Link Labs & Updates
Feb 12, 202501:02:56
395: Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Draft

395: Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Draft

Feb 11, 202501:01:50
396: Macros or TMDL? Power BI's new Code vs. C# Scripting
Feb 07, 202555:58
394: MAILBAG! Where Are All the Microsoft Job Listings?

394: MAILBAG! Where Are All the Microsoft Job Listings?

You guys have been on point with sending us mailbag topics / questions! Keep it up!


Mike & Tommy unpack a great mailbag on the state of the industry looking for, requesting, and creating Microsoft Fabric Job Roles:

"I’ve noticed that there are only a handful of job listings requiring Microsoft Fabric on platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed. Given that it was introduced just over a year ago, this is somewhat expected. However, I’m curious to understand more about this trend.

Why do you think there are so few job listings mentioning Microsoft Fabric?

Is it due to the early stage of its adoption, or are there other factors at play?

How long do you think it will take for Microsoft Fabric to become a common requirement in data engineering roles? Looking forward to all of your insights and predictions on future of Microsoft Fabric! Appreciate it! Thanks!"


Get in touch:

Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page.

Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/

Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips

Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv

Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎

Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips

Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/

Follow Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/

Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

Jan 30, 202501:06:11
393: Unpacking the new Copilot Capacity in Microsoft Fabric
Jan 28, 202501:02:02
392: MAILBAG! Is Fabric Too Complex or Is it Too Simple?
Jan 23, 202559:30
391: MAILBAG! Only the Bronze Layer?
Jan 21, 202559:59
390: January 2025 Desktop Draft!
Jan 16, 202501:01:12
389: Azure AI Foundry & Microsoft Fabric
Jan 14, 202558:13
388: Microsoft Fabric SQL Databases... Now What?
Jan 09, 202556:19
387: Power BI Core Visuals Revisited

387: Power BI Core Visuals Revisited

Mike & Tommy hear back from the Core Visuals team on their previous conversation, and go over all the major changes and what to expect.

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  • We launched a vision board detailing our work. This board also highlights sections of the MSFT Learn site where we are documenting everything in unprecedented detail. This process took months of discussions with the MSFT Learn team, which is why it has taken so long.

  • As mentioned, the MSFT Learn documentation will be fully redesigned for core visuals articles. The new documentation will have three sections for each feature or visual: How to Create, All Format Settings, and Considerations and Limitations. See the new card visual article as an example. New documentation for the Button Slicer, Matrix and Table, Bar Charts, and the recently added Small Multiples for the new card visual is coming soon.

  • I have shared examples and tutorials of the work people can do with the new features (post 1, post 2, last post). We recognize the challenge of not having better defaults and the time it takes to make things look nice. Plans are in place to address this, but we first need to establish the foundation of the options before organizing them. You mentioned it would be nice to ask Copilot to make things look good, but without the necessary controls, even Copilot won’t be able to help.

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Get in touch:

Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page.

Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/

Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips

Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv

Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎

Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips

Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/

Follow Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/

Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

Jan 09, 202558:04
386: Metric Sets & Impact
Jan 02, 202553:42
385: Excel Migrations to Power BI are the Worst, and Goodbyes to Seth
Jan 01, 202558:12
384: Organizational Apps & Power BI
Dec 26, 202457:11
383: Our Microsoft Fabric Secret Santa

383: Our Microsoft Fabric Secret Santa

Mike, Seth, & Tommy share in the holiday spirit with Fabric Gifts to each other.


Dec 24, 202401:01:19
382: Microsoft Fabric OneLake Catalog & Governance
Dec 19, 202458:07
381: The Rise of the Microsoft Fabric Notebook Engineer
Dec 17, 202452:52
380: MAILBAG! Enhancing Power BI Reports - Non-User Commmentary

380: MAILBAG! Enhancing Power BI Reports - Non-User Commmentary

Mike, Seth, and Tommy dive through a great mailbag on getting feedback in a scalable way:

I have built a monthly "snapshot" report that is delivered to more than a dozen different business units across my firm. These are the subject of one-on-one meetings between the leads of those units and their manager. However, each business unit also has a marketing lead whose job is to help the business unit leads understand the metrics and share some context from the marketing world for why a certain KPI is low or high and what steps are being taken in the coming months to address them. So we have standard metrics delivered by Power BI that need to have narrative context added by marketing leaders before the snapshot report goes to its primary audience. I'm well aware of your hostility to PowerPoint, even with the Power BI add-in, but what are some other tools or approaches that allow non Power BI users to effectively mark up a report as a final phase before it is delivered? Surely this is a common problem!

How can we add comments to reports outside of PowerPoint, Are there any other solutions that let non-Power BI users write down comments into a report?


Get in touch:

Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to ⁠@PowerBITips⁠ with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the ⁠PowerBI.tips Podcast Page⁠.

Visit PowerBI.tips: ⁠https://powerbi.tips/⁠

Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips⁠

Subscribe on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv⁠

Subscribe on Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎⁠

Check Out Community Jam: ⁠https://jam.powerbi.tips⁠

Follow Mike: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/⁠

Follow Seth: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/⁠

Follow Tommy: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

Dec 17, 202430:24
379: MAILBAG! "Knowing Data" vs. Knowing The Data - Key Insights for a Career in Data
Dec 10, 202433:24
378: Filter Context Explained
Dec 05, 202448:27
377: Power BI Core Visual Updates & The Future of Visuals
Dec 03, 202448:23
376: Citizen Developers & Power BI as a Dev Tool
Nov 28, 202432:46