ALL(‘the Bengal Ladies’)
All the BENGAL Ladies… Today’s post goes out to all my DAX Tigress friends out there… put your hands up! AND, to my fellow meme enthusiasts – I have a meme trifecta for you today (cats + pugs + ???).…
From English Major to Data Analyst
When I was a Sophomore in college, I got a job doing tape backups at a food ingredients company. The developers there maintained a stack of paginated reports for the managers in the corner offices. At the time, I thought it…
A DAX Tale: Not every path is straight and narrow
Hello P3 Nation! After having the privilege of working with so many of you to share your journeys and techniques I was inspired to share my own. This is a bit of an intimidating group, and I struggled a bit…
How I accidentally became a Data Person
I don’t like to answer these or similar questions: “What is your career path?” “Where do you see yourself in five years?” “…in ten years…?” I generally find it hard to answer questions about what I do, because my…
Journey to P3: Krissy Dyess
My P3 Story! Well, it looks like I’m up next to share my PowerPivot and P3 story! I really enjoyed Ryan’s story, and I took away from it that you must make time for what you what to achieve in…
Finding the Magic Part 2: On the Way to Data Happiness
The journey continues… Five years on from my life-changing encounter with PowerPivot, my pilgrimage to the Nirvana of Modern Excel continues with some occasional detours. When I first encountered PowerPivot back in 2013, I thought that this tool would obviously…
Finding the Magic: A PowerPivot Journey
The Journey Begins I am an accountant fascinated with data. My PowerPivot journey started in 2013 when I encountered the PowerPivotPro blog while googling to find a way to tackle a multi-dimensional financial reporting task. Because of the limitations of…
Creating the Right Measures: A Power Pivot Journey
Intro How did I come to PowerPivot and the related tools? Desperation in trying to fix a process problem. How did I get to the point where I can return a reasonable answer to a data query using the Power…
Journey to PowerPivotPro: Narayana Windenberger
Intro When was the last time you had an interview with the president of the company and he was wearing shorts and a t-shirt while you were decked out in a suit? Swing back to June 2017, and that was…
Journey to PowerPivotPro: Ryan Bergstrom
The Rewarding Things Aren't Easy Sometimes I forget that it has only been a year at PowerPivotPro. Every new client that I have seems like I‘ve spent months getting to know a business, their projects, and the incredible people…