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Abstract: 

Stages of Data: A Playbook for Analytic Reporting Using COVID-19 Data

Over the last few years, I've written articles about ETL and back-end processes in data warehousing applications. A few months ago, I started writing a similar article on a “playbook” for analytic reporting. I've built many business intelligence applications for several industries. Although the specifics differ, there are common key elements. Just like Visual Studio and .NET have properties, events, and methods, BI applications have flashpoints, activities, and strategies that occur along the life cycle of the application. I began to write an article that organized these “PEMs” into a playbook. I initially took an actual business application and mocked up the data for the example. Then in February/March of 2020, news of COVID-19 began to affect us all. I changed my example application to use COVID-19 data and will present it here

This presentation will cover a Power-BI dashboard I created and deployed to a public site. It uses data pulled from a national data source that I'm using stored in SQL Server.

Speaker: Kevin S Goff

Kevin S. Goff, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, has been writing “The Baker’s Dozen” productivity series in CoDe Magazine since 2004.

Kevin has been an applications developer, architect, and technology mentor since 1987. Kevin has worked in many lines of business, including insurance, manufacturing, health care, consumer packaged goods, accounting and finance, advertising, and many others. Along the way, Kevin has won several awards in both the public and private sector for applications development. Additionally, Kevin has taught SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing classes to hundreds of students over a period of five years and has built numerous custom courseware modules along the way.

Kevin has authored one book on reporting development and contributed chapters on MDX programming to a second book. He is currently developing a set of commercial video training courses for SQL Server and BI topics. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2010 and was previously a .NET/C# MVP from 2005 to 2009.

Kevin is a frequent speaker at User Group and other community events (SQL Saturday, SharePoint Saturday, Code Camp) in the Mid-Atlantic region, and speaks occasionally at conferences. In 2012 Kevin worked with Microsoft TechNet Radio on a 13 week webcast series on new features in SQL Server 2012.

For more information, check out Kevin’s main site at http://www.KevinSGoff.net, or email him at kgoff@kevinsgoff.net