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📚 Fresh Reads to Fuel Your Data Journey

✦ Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook: Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time

✦ The Complete Power BI Interview Guide: A modern approach to acing the data analyst interview and landing your dream job

✦ Extending Power BI with Python and R - Second Edition: Perform advanced analysis using the power of analytical languages, Second Edition

✦ Python and SQL Bible: From Beginner to World Expert: Unleash the true potential of data analysis and manipulation.

✦ Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel: Harness the new features and formulae in M365 Excel to create dynamic, automated dashboards

✦ The Definitive Guide to Power Query (M): Mastering complex data transformation with Power Query

✦ Learn Microsoft Fabric: A practical guide to performing data analytics in the era of artificial intelligence

✦ Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering: An introduction to building end-to-end analytics solutions

📊 Data Viz Trends You Need to Know

✦ Time Series Data Simplified: Master data aggregation with Pandas.

✦ Crafting Your Data Strategy: A roadmap to effective decision-making.

✦ Task-Oriented Dialog Systems: Innovations with LangGraph and LangChain.

✦ MIDI Files as Training Data: Uncover new possibilities.

✦ Navigating Enterprise Data Quality: Your essential guide to accountability.

🔄 Real-World Success Stories

✦ Getting Started with OpenAI o1: Harness powerful reasoning models.

✦ Modernize with Azure Tools: Streamline your database management.

✦ Learning with LLMs: Enhance your reasoning skills.

✦ Secure Your Data Pipelines: Explore new authentication features in OneLake.

✦ Microsoft Fabric Gets Certified: Achieve HITRUST CSF compliance.

✦ LLM-Powered Insights for Tableau Pulse: Develop reliable summarization techniques.

⚡ Quick BI Wins for Instant Impact

✦ Tableau Einstein: Integrate agent-powered analytics into your workflow.

✦ Beginner's Guide to ClickHouse DB: Discover the benefits of this innovative database.

✦ Introducing the AI Lakehouse: Embrace the future of data storage.

✦ Explore OpenAI o1: Unlock its potential for your projects.

✦ Join the Microsoft Fabric & AI Learning Hackathon: Get involved and innovate!

🎤 Expert Insights: Voices of BI

✦ Elsevier’s Data Revolution: Unleashing Tableau’s full potential.

✦ Change Management Essentials: Understand the role of SQL Server DBAs.

✦ SQL Variable Syntax Simplified: Automate your code with ease.

✦ Backup Your AWS RDS SQL Server: Essential tips and tricks.

✦ Enhance Your WSFC: Adding shared disks made simple.

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➽ Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook: Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time

This new book on Looker is perfect for BI engineers and database developers who want to make better use of their data. It helps you visualize, analyze, and report data effortlessly. You'll learn how to connect data sources, build dashboards, and create insightful reports. The book also covers advanced techniques, troubleshooting, and Looker integration with other tools, making your data work smoother and your business decisions smarter. It’s a practical guide to mastering Looker, making your work easier and more efficient.

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➽ The Complete Power BI Interview Guide: A modern approach to acing the data analyst interview and landing your dream job

This book is a friendly guide for Business Intelligence engineers preparing for Power BI job interviews. It helps you build confidence by offering tips on everything from creating a strong resume to mastering technical Power BI skills like data modeling and DAX. You'll also learn how to stand out in interviews, tackle tough questions, and handle salary negotiations. By the end, you'll feel ready to land your dream job and excel from day one!

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➽ Extending Power BI with Python and R - Second Edition: Perform advanced analysis using the power of analytical languages, Second Edition

This book is perfect for Business Intelligence engineers looking to master Python and R in Power BI. It helps you tackle complex data tasks, like integrating external APIs and applying machine learning models. You’ll learn how to enhance dashboards with advanced visualizations, handle large datasets, and optimize performance using Intel’s MKL. It also covers data security techniques, advanced algorithms, and fuzzy matching. By the end, you’ll have the skills to manipulate data in ways Power BI alone can’t, making your analyses more powerful and efficient.

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➽ Python and SQL Bible: From Beginner to World Expert: Unleash the true potential of data analysis and manipulation

This course is great for Business Intelligence professionals wanting to build strong Python and SQL skills. It covers everything from the basics to advanced techniques, helping you master Python programming and SQL queries. You’ll learn to integrate Python with SQL for better data manipulation, perform complex data analysis, and tackle real-world projects. By the end, you'll have the confidence and skills to handle diverse data challenges and become a valuable asset in the tech industry. It’s a practical, hands-on learning experience designed to boost your problem-solving abilities.

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➽ Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel: Harness the new features and formulae in M365 Excel to create dynamic, automated dashboards

This book is your essential guide to mastering Excel for M365, focusing on creating automated, data-driven dashboards. It covers key tools like Power Query, dynamic arrays, and PivotTables, while teaching best practices for data visualization. Build robust dashboards from scratch, transforming complex data into actionable insights with ease and efficiency.

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➽ The Definitive Guide to Power Query (M): Mastering complex data transformation with Power Query

This book is a complete guide to mastering Power Query for data transformation, from fundamentals to advanced techniques. With hands-on examples and real-world applications, you'll learn to use the Power Query M language, optimize performance, handle errors, and apply powerful data manipulation strategies to improve your data analysis skills.

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➽ Learn Microsoft Fabric: A practical guide to performing data analytics in the era of artificial intelligence

This book delves into Microsoft Fabric, teaching you how to build data analytics solutions for lakehouses, warehouses, and real-time analytics. Through real-world examples, you'll explore data integration, AI-driven insights, and security practices, while mastering tools like Power BI, Spark, and Copilot to enhance performance and productivity in the AI era.

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➽ Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering: An introduction to building end-to-end analytics solutions

This book, written by seven industry experts, equips you with essential skills in analytics engineering. You'll learn data pipeline design, data modeling, quality management, and governance, using tools like BigQuery and Tableau. The guide covers advanced topics like CI/CD, automation, and collaborative coding, helping you develop scalable, business-aligned analytics solutions.

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➽ How to Perform Data Aggregation Over Time Series Data with Pandas? This blog explains how to perform time series data aggregation using Python, specifically with Pandas and Numpy. It demonstrates resampling methods to summarize datasets over time, such as sales and profit, through a practical example.

➽ The Data Strategy Choice Cascade. What your data strategy should look like? This blog explains the importance of developing a data strategy for organizations aiming to become data-driven. It introduces the Playing to Win strategy framework, providing a cheat sheet to guide teams in designing effective data strategies.

➽ Creating Task-Oriented Dialog systems with LangGraph and LangChain: This article explains how to build a Task-Oriented Dialogue (ToD) system using LangGraph and LangChain. The system helps users create detailed User Stories by guiding interactions with a structured workflow of prompts, memory, and tool calling, ensuring task-focused dialogue.

➽ MIDI Files as Training Data: This blog explains the crucial differences between MIDI scores and MIDI performances for beginners in deep learning with MIDI files, emphasizing their unique characteristics and providing practical examples for working with them in Python.

➽ The “Who Does What” Guide To Enterprise Data Quality: This article explores data quality in enterprise environments, addressing roles in detection, triage, resolution, and measurement. It highlights the importance of distinguishing between foundational and derived data products and emphasizes the need for effective collaboration among data teams.

➽ Getting Started with OpenAI o1 Reasoning Models: OpenAI's new o1 reasoning models, o1-preview and o1-mini, excel in critical thinking and problem-solving, demonstrating advanced capabilities in finance, coding, and machine learning projects, marking a significant improvement over previous models like GPT-4o.

➽ Modernize your database with the consolidation and retirement of Azure Database Migration tools: This article discusses the migration of databases to Azure SQL, highlighting Microsoft's tools for simplifying the complex process. It outlines upcoming tool retirements and replacements, aiming to streamline user experiences and enhance modern data management capabilities.

➽ Learning to Reason with LLMs: OpenAI introduces the o1 model, a large language model utilizing reinforcement learning for complex reasoning. It demonstrates significant improvements over previous models, excelling in competitive programming and advanced science, and enhancing problem-solving through structured thinking.

➽ Introducing Workspace Identity Authentication for OneLake Shortcuts and Data Pipelines: Microsoft has launched authentication using workspace identity for OneLake external shortcuts and data pipelines, enhancing secure access to Azure Data Lake Storage. This feature simplifies management by eliminating the need for keys and supports trusted access for storage accounts.

➽ Microsoft Fabric Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification: Microsoft Fabric, including its healthcare data solutions, has achieved HITRUST CSF v11.0.1 certification, ensuring compliance with industry security standards. This certification reassures customers of effective safeguards for sensitive healthcare data in the cloud.

➽ Developing reliable LLM-powered insight summarization for Tableau Pulse: Tableau Pulse introduces generative AI for summarizing metric insights, enhancing user experience in data analytics. By leveraging large language models, it provides personalized, actionable summaries of key metrics, enabling better decision-making and streamlined data management.

➽ Tableau Einstein: Agent-Powered Analytics Deliver Data and Insights in the Flow of Work. Tableau Einstein, built on Salesforce, revolutionizes analytics by integrating AI and autonomous agents to deliver real-time insights. It enhances data-driven decision-making across teams, enabling seamless access and collaboration on metrics within familiar workflows.

➽ A Beginner’s Guide to ClickHouse Database: This tutorial introduces ClickHouse, a high-performance column-store database. It covers installation, database creation, SQL queries, and integration with Python, emphasizing ClickHouse's efficiency for real-time analytics and its user-friendly setup for developers.

➽ Introducing the AI Lakehouse: The AI Lakehouse extends the traditional Lakehouse architecture to support analytics and AI systems by adding capabilities like real-time data processing, enhanced Python support, unified monitoring, and AI pipelines, enabling efficient batch and LLM applications.

➽ Introducing OpenAI o1: OpenAI has launched the o1-preview series, new reasoning models designed to tackle complex tasks in science, coding, and math. These models spend more time thinking before responding, significantly improving problem-solving capabilities compared to previous versions.

➽ Announcing: The Microsoft Fabric & AI Learning Hackathon: The post announces the Microsoft Fabric & AI Learning Hackathon, inviting participants to develop innovative Data + AI solutions, with $10,000 in prizes and opportunities for upskilling, workshops, and support from Microsoft experts.

➽ Elsevier ‘unleashes the power of data’ with Tableau: The article discusses how Elsevier, an information analytics company, implemented Tableau as its primary data visualization tool to centralize data across departments, reduce licensing costs, and foster a culture of self-service analytics, ultimately improving decision-making and efficiency.

➽ What is Change Management and the SQL Server DBAs Role? This article explains Change Management processes for Database Administrators (DBAs), detailing their roles in implementing production changes. It covers the steps involved, from submitting Change Requests to testing and deploying changes, emphasizing the importance of structured procedures.

➽ Auto Generate SQL Variable Syntax for Table Column Names: The article discusses how to streamline SQL coding for database administrators by automating the creation of variable-related code using stored procedures. It illustrates this with examples, emphasizing efficiency and reducing repetitive tasks in database management.

➽ Download AWS RDS SQL Server Backup: The article explains how to back up an AWS RDS SQL Server database and store the backup locally. It outlines the process using native backup capabilities, Amazon S3 for storage, and necessary AWS components and configurations.

➽ How to Add a New Shared Disk to a WSFC as a SQL Resource? The article provides guidelines for DBAs to add a new shared disk to a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) for an SQL instance when existing disks are full. It details the initialization and online steps for the new disk.

Stay tuned for more—until next time!

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