Memories of DATA & BI Summit 2018 | Dublin, Ireland.

The journey which we have thought in our mind but couldn’t make it happen due to different things. But this year I got an opportunity to represent myself, my country Nepal and overall Nepal Power BI User Group in DATA and BI Summit 2018 which was held in Dublin, Ireland on 23rd April to 26th April, 2018 at The Convention Centre Dublin.

https://www.databisummit.com/home

https://www.pbiusergroup.com/kathmandu

I was also appointed to be a Program Committee member for this DATA and BI Summit 2018 in Visualize Track, where we team up in group to review different abstracts from different great speakers around the world. We work really hard to finalize the content and selected the best suitable sessions for this summit with the help of Rose, Mark and mainly all the members of Program Committee. During these abstract review process I came to know different tools, techniques, process and methods related to different Microsoft Products mainly focusing PowerBI visuals. It was in deed a great opportunity and responsibility to be a Program Committee of any Summit or conference. We must thanks to all the members of Program Committee Team.

https://www.pbiusergroup.com/about/programming

I was also given an opportunity to be a speaker at this summit and I really got happy when I knew this. And then my journey begins to attend DATA & BI Summit 2018 as a Speaker from my country Nepal.

This time DATA and BI Summit 2018 is held at Dublin, Ireland and getting visa from Nepal to Ireland or European Visa is difficult for developing countries like us Nepal. I don’t know why the process took nearly 1 month to get a visa from Nepal to Ireland though I finally got the visa for which I had prepared all the necessary documents and process followed as per VFS Nepal in order to get Ireland visa. Thanks again for Ireland Embassy ,India for granting me for conference visa since in Nepal there is no Ireland Embassy located here.

If anyone wants to attend these types of Microsoft conference or other conference in Ireland from Nepal then you can follow below VFS links. (Also don’t depends on VFS only since my case they said visa process will take maximum 15 days but which took me nearly 1 month, luckily I had applied nearly 1 month before my conference date).

http://www.vfsglobalirelandvisa.com/india/how_to_apply.html

Had a great experience about Ireland, people, speakers around the world, MVPs, PUG Leaders and Microsoft Families and also Nepalese brothers from my own hometown Siddhipur ,Lalitpur who helps me a lot while I was in Ireland. Really thanks to all for being so humble and helpful.

Also, I had posted as below after the DATA & BI Summit 2018:

It was full of excitement and happy that I got a chance to meet some of my idols Jen Stirrup , Chris Webb , Reza Rad , leila Etaati ,Data Geeks ,BI hero’s ,MVP, and Microsoft Power BI Team . Thanks a lot to Rose Spitzer , Jena Coffie , Mark Wilcock and Microsoft PUG team for giving me this opportunity. Feeling happy happy 🙂 .#DataBISummit #PowerBI #PUG #MicrosoftYou can find more on below link

https://www.databisummit.com/home

The official Thank you to DATA & BI Summit Volunteers Video:

Some of the snaps during my journey to DATA & BI Summit 2018, Dublin, Ireland.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiCt3zsFQiZ/?taken-by=anil_maharjan

Using Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI: Real-time Telco fraud detection

This post is referenced from Microsoft Azure main articles, during my free time I want to try out Azure Stream Analytics and know more about the Stream Analytics where I found two great articles which help me to understand in detail:

Below are those articles:

1) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-real-time-fraud-detection

2) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-power-bi-dashboard

Here one can learn related to Azure Steam Analytics and how Power BI visualization dashboard can be used for real time data analysis and helps to visualize fraudulent phone calls that are detected by a Streaming Analytics job in real time. Since, I am also currently working in Telco sector so this analysis helps me a lot.

This tutorial provides an end-to-end illustration of how to use Azure Stream Analytics. You learn how to:

Bring streaming events into an instance of Azure Event Hubs. In this tutorial, you’ll use an app that we provide that simulates a stream of mobile-phone metadata records.
Write SQL-like Stream Analytics queries to transform data, aggregating information or looking for patterns. You will see how to use a query to examine the incoming stream and look for calls that might be fraudulent.
Send the results to an output sink (storage) that you can analyze for additional insights. In this case, you’ll send the suspicious call data to Azure Blob storage.
Also send the results to an output sink (Power BI) where you can analyze for additional insights. How one can build real time telco fraud detection visualization dashboard in Power BI.

In this tutorial, we use the example of real-time fraud detection based on phone-call data. But the technique we illustrate is also suited for other types of fraud detection, such as credit card fraud or identity theft.

Scenario: Telecommunications and SIM fraud detection in real time

A telecommunications company has a large volume of data for incoming calls. The company wants to detect fraudulent calls in real time so that they can notify customers or shut down service for a specific number. One type of SIM fraud involves multiple calls from the same identity around the same time but in geographically different locations. To detect this type of fraud, the company needs to examine incoming phone records and look for specific patterns—in this case, for calls made around the same time in different countries. Any phone records that fall into this category are written to storage for subsequent analysis and also send those results to an output sink (Power BI) where one can analyze for additional insights and helps in real-time fraud detection based on live phone-call data .

I have followed step by step by following above article 1 and article 2, so one should go in details through those articles. Below are some snap from steps I followed:

Now, Streaming Analytics job starts looking for fraudulent calls in the incoming stream. The job also creates the dataset and table in Power BI and starts sending data about the fraudulent calls to them.

Once we finished creating Azure Stream Analytics job and output of that job to Power BI sink table name as ‘Telco_Fraud_Demo’ inside Data and BI Summit 2018 Workspace in Power BI Service. After that one can create real time visualization dashboard in Power BI.

For this just login to Power BI Service, and then under your Workspaces in my case ‘Data and BI Summit 2018 ‘ create dashboard by clicking +Add title tab where you will see Custom streaming Data in REAL-TIME DATA section and then once you select Custom Streaming Data you will see the same output power BI sink table which we had created in Azure Streaming Analytics Job Output

By selecting different visualization Type we can visualize and analyze for additional insights and helps in real-time telco fraud detection based on Streaming dataset.

Also, in near future we can directly connect the dataset as Streaming dataset in near future as per below Power BI feature notice.

Thanks,

Anil Maharjan

Senior BI Engineer | Nepal Power BI User Group Leader

How to create Microsoft Azure SQL Database and Visualize along with Power BI.

This blog is mainly about creating Microsoft Azure SQL DB and visualizing with the help of Power BI Desktop.

Firstly, we need to have a Microsoft Azure subscription in order to create the azure sql database. One can try for free for one month worth $200 azure subscription for free. You can find more on this from below link:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/?v=18.03

Then, you need to create Azure SQL database. For this please follow below link which will help us to create Azure SQL database step by step. I have gone through each step in detail.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-design-first-database

Below are some of steps snap which you will see while creating Azure SQL database.

Meanwhile, It will help if you know more about Database Transaction Units (DTUs) and elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs). Once can know more on below link: which helps to figure out the Azure SQL database monthly subscription charges.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-what-is-a-dtu

Also, one can know more about the elastic database pool.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-what-is-a-dtu

Once you successfully create the Azure SQL DB then you will see as similar to below snap. Here I have create AzureSQLDB as database name and with AdventureWorks test data sample tables. I have set my server name as anilmaharjan.database.windows.net with 2GB in total disk storage.

After that I tried to connect my Azure SQL database ‘AzureSQLDB ‘ but got the below error. Which means we need to allow client IP address to access the windows azure server SQL DB. So for this we need to add Firewall settings for this . Once success Firewall setting, now you are good to go to connect Power BI Desktop to windows Azure SQL DB you just created.

Do visualization by using Power BI Desktop and then can upload in Power BI cloud service too. Find more on different kind of Power BI visualizations:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-visualization-types-for-reports-and-q-and-a

Now, you had successfully created Azure SQL database and do different visualization using Power BI . Also, it’s good to see the data explore option with Azure and we can direct query and analysis of Azure SQL database in Azure portal itself. Which is great. One can setup Azure cost management in order to optimize your cloud spend and which is also a quite good feature.

#AzureSQLDatabase ,#WindowsAzure, #PowerBI,In summary, you have successfully setup Azure SQL database and do different kinds of visualization by using Power BI Desktop.

Thanks,

Anil Maharjan

Senior BI Engineer | Nepal Power BI User Group Leader

Happy and excited to be a Program committee member for DATA and BI Summit 2018.

Happy and excited to be a Program committee member for DATA and BI Summit 2018 in Visualize Track focusing on Building and Designing Dashboards and Reports.

Thanks to the DATA and BI Summit 2018 Program committee team for giving me an opportunity to work as a Volunteer Program committee member for upcoming DATA and BI Summit 2018 in Visualize Track focusing on Building and Designing Dashboards and Reports.

I had selected Visualize track (Focus: Building and Designing Dashboards and Reports) and regarding top 10 topics that should be covered in this track at DATA & BI Summit are:

How to get story/insights from DATA using Power BI.
Power BI Desktop and it’s features.
R on Power BI.
Different types of Visualization(bar charts ,trends, scatter plot, Geo-spatial , maps ,drill up, drill down, sub-reports ) we can create just by drag and drop approach and also custom visuals.
Power BI service , dashboards, reports , data sources , APIs.
workspaces , Power apps, how can end users be benefit by using different workspaces and power apps and helps in decision making.
Roles and privileges in different workspaces , apps, reports , dashboard.
scheduling, refresh data source , publishing in web, mail subscription, subscriber different reports , dashboards to different teams and end users.
Q&A , Cortana , mobile power BI app, APIs, Gateways.
Phone Layout, Power Query, Data modeling, Get Apps Microsoft App store, Real time data analysis and analytics.

You can find more about application proposal for Data and BI Summit Program committee. Deadline is 12^th Jan 2018

https://www.pbiusergroup.com/engage/volunteeropportunities/volunteer-opportunity-details?VolunteerOpportunityKey=3791f992-2f6d-4eb7-b558-3ad62022dc74

Also, if you want to speak in this conference then you can find more about call for proposal for DATA and BI Summit below: Deadline is 12^th Jan 2018.

https://www.pbiusergroup.com/engage/volunteeropportunities/volunteer-opportunity-details?VolunteerOpportunityKey=c2bb2d9e-ddab-4be1-9fcd-7204a4e6226d

So What about DATA and BI Summit 2018 ?

Data & BI Summit is hosted by The Power BI User Group (PUG). With over 38,000 members, PUG has established itself as the go-to for Data Professionals and Business Analysts who are eager to collaborate and deepen their expertise in Microsoft business intelligence tools.

DATA and BI Summit is going to be held on 24-26 April 2018 | The Convention Centre Dublin | Dublin, Ireland.

What to expect at the Data & BI Summit:

Exceptional, quality content: Learn how to bring your company through the digital transformation by gaining new understandings of your data and deepening your knowledge of the Microsoft Business Intelligence tools. Products will include: Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, SQL Server, Excel, Azure, D365 and more!
Answers to your questions: Network with the Microsoft Power BI team, dig-in onsite to find immediate answers with industry experts, Data MVPs, and User Group Leaders while taking advantage of the opportunity to engage in interactive sessions, workshops and labs.
Network with your peers: Enjoy countless opportunities to create lasting relationships by connecting and networking with user group peers, partners and Microsoft team members.
Stretch your skill set: Advance your career by learning the latest updates and how they can help you and your business.

You can find more on DATA and BI Summit 2018 by going through below link.

https://www.databisummit.com/home

Thanks,

Anil Maharjan

Senior BI Engineer | Nepal Power BI User Group Leader

SQL Saturday #692 Conference and Nepal Power BI User Group Meetup a big success.

Last Saturday, we conducted SQL Saturday #692 conference and Nepal Power BI User Group Meetup Event in Kathmandu, Nepal successfully on 23rd Dec, 2017.

SQLSaturday#692 conference and Nepal Power BI User Group Meetup Event is free event for a Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Power BI and Analytics.

I got a chance again to organize and speak in this great event and it was fun and we share knowledge along with other SQL and Power BI Geeks and also had great opportunity to be a speakers around the world. Thank you all speakers , MVP & members for being part of #SqlSaturday692 #SqlSatNepal #NepalPUG we had a great speakers , MVP from around the world. Such as Shree Prasad Khanal Anil Maharjan Gogula Aryalingam Guy Glantser Jonathan Stewart Deependra Bajracharya Virendra Dibya Tara Shakya

I had given presentation on PowerBI: Data Visualization SQL Saturday with R You can find my slides using below link: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/692/Sessions/Details.aspx?sid=69982

Also, it was my great opportunity to share more about Nepal Power BI User Group along with the community. How one can engage and join the NepalPUG group. Currently, there are few members in Nepal PUG and hope it will grow soon. http://www.pbiusergroup.com/kathmandu

The event was a big success and we had nearly more than 100 participants and the interactions between participants and speakers was really overwhelm.

In future also, we will conduct more Data Platform SQL and Power BI related events again soon. Also, one problem we faced difficult here is not having any Microsoft Office premises in Nepal. It would be great if Microsoft can open up small office premises here in Nepal too. So that we can conduct these kind of Microsoft related conference within Microsoft office. Which will help the Microsoft community to grow further and will help to engage more community members in one place.

Thanks,

Anil Maharjan

Senior BI Engineer | Nepal Power BI User Group Leader

Installing SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition and trying out Telco Customer Churn with R services.

During SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit 2016, #SSGAS2016 I was really impressed by Wee Hong Tok for his session on ‘SQL Server R services’ where I got to know more about SQL server 2016 and R services and the demo he presented in that particular session regarding Telco Customer Churn.

Also, another session that I am really impressed by Jen Stirrup for her session on ‘Delivering Practical Analytics and Results with Cortana Analytics’. And also impressed by Andreas Wolter Amit Bansal ,Other Speakers & SQL Server Geeks Community for such a friendliness and hospitality.

Since, I also work in Telco sector so first thing I want to try it out is what Wee Hong Tok had shown in his demo and thanks to Jen Stirrup where she introduce me with Cortana Analytics, I don’t know much of this SQL Server 2016 with R services and regarding Cortana Analytics now I want to know more on these.

One can find regarding Cortana Analytics and Telco Customer Churn from below links.

https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com/Experiment/Telco-Customer-Churn-5

So, if you also want to try out this then all you need is firstly download the SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition or SQL Server 2016 Evaluation version for 180 Days.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/sql-server-editions-developers

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2016

For step by step installation you can follow below link

http://www.sqlcoffee.com/SQLServer2016_0001.htm

Before installation SQL Server 2016, you need to install Java Development Tool kit. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Also, don’t forget to check the R Services (In-Database) tab during installation, also there is separate R Server (Standalone) during installation just prefer R Services ( In-Database) option.

You can find more on R Services (In-database) and R Service (Standalone) from below links.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt696069.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt695941.aspx

Once installation compete, in order to test Telco Customer Churn just go to below link to get the backup file for Telco Customer churn in GitHub link below,

https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/features/r-services/Telco%20Customer%20Churn/SQL%20Server

Get the teloedw2.bak file and restore in SQL Server 2016 database, now read the Read.md file which contains:

Instructions

Restore the database provided (telcoedw2.bak)

Run the code in TelcoChurn-Main.sql

Description

TelcoChurn-Main.sql – Use this T-SQL script to try out the telco customer churn example.

TelcoChurn-Operationalize.sql – T-SQL scripts to create the stored procedures used in this example.

while going through above scripts and trying out Customer Churn I got few errors, so I am sharing my finding here, anyone if gets same error then this post might be helpful.

After installing SQL Server 2016 developer edition and trying for this Telco Customer churn SQL server scripts. I got certain error while running scripts TelcoChurn-Main.sql and TelcoChurn-Operationalize.sql. For first, after google I found out we need to change the Memory_Limit_percent in order to run above sq. scripts. So, just add MEMORY_LIMIT_PERCENT=50 into the config file for Rlauncher.config which can be found in below location:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn

Change as below;

RHOME=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\R_SERVICES MPI_HOME=C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI INSTANCE_NAME=MSSQLSERVER TRACE_LEVEL=1 JOB_CLEANUP_ON_EXIT=1 USER_POOL_SIZE=0 WORKING_DIRECTORY=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\MSSQL1~1.MSS\MSSQL\EXTENS~1 MEMORY_LIMIT_PERCENT=50

While running this script TelcoChurn-Operationalize.sql we need to firstly install the required R packages, I have also uploaded one SQL File which installed required R packages before running the scripts of telco customer churn into my folk repository for sql-server-samples. The file contains enabling sp_execute_external_script to run R scripts in SQL Server 2016 and installing required R packages in order to run the Script TelcoChurn-Main.sql and TelcoChurn-Operationalize.sql successfully. Since we need to install those R packages before we run the scripts in order to avoid the error. https://github.com/maharjananil/sql-server-samples/blob/master/samples/features/r-services/Telco%20Customer%20Churn/SQL%20Server/Enabling%20R%20scripts%20to%20run%20and%20Installing%20required%20R%20Packages.sql

After that all the scripts run successfully and now you can learn more about R Services and R scripts & algorithm used and then test along with your own Telco data. Which I am planning to try out and will try out for sure.

There is always something new to learn into the world of DATA so called BIG DATA & now DATA Science/Analytics and Machine Learning.

Thanks,

Anil Maharjan

SQL Server 2016 Discovery Day – Data Visualization using R and Power BI.

SQL Server 2016 Discovery Day – Data Visualization using R and Power BI.

Last week we conducted the SQL Server 2016 Discovery Day –Release Event Kathmandu, Nepal successfully on July 9^th 2016. SQL Server Launch 2016 Event and Discovery Day is a free, one-day event where individuals come together, learn about SQL Server 2016 and solve a pre-determined problem.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-server-2016-discovery-dayrelease-event-kathmandu-nepal-tickets-25888946536?aff=efbnreg#

I got a chance again to speak in this great event and it was fun and share knowledge along with other SQL Geeks, I had given presentation on

SQL Server 2016 Discovery Day – Data Visualization using R and Power BI.

You can find my slides using below link:

SQL Server 2016 Discovery Day – Data Visualization using R and Power BI. from Anil Maharjan

Also, we had a small solution development competition in the event where we use Power BI Desktop free tool in order to create some visualization and tell some story behind data.

Below is some quick visualization that I had created in the event by using PASS SQL Saturday real Data.

Steps for Making Data visualization by using Power BI Desktop.

Step 1: Firstly, download and install the Microsoft Power BI Desktop tool, which is free from the link below also for R related charts and play around with R codes we need to download R , RStudio IDE and install too. Below is link for Power BI Desktop, R, and RStudio IDE.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/?gated=0&number=1

https://www.r-project.org

https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/

https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Step 2: Get the data related to SQL PASS, SQL Saturday from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzlPwGX6UtxUNnlfZ01KczF0NHc/view

This zip data files contains the different .sql files with data included within scripts.

Step 3: Load those scripts into SQL Server Database and then use Power BI Desktop ‘Get DATA’ tab to load the Data into Power BI Desktop and do visualization.

Alternative: If you haven’t install the SQL server Database then you can use a single file such as ‘dbo.SQLSatSessions.Table.sql’ and then Excel file to manipulate the data in your required format.

Step 4: Load the only data part from the file ‘dbo.SQLSatSessions.Table.sql’ into excel as below

Then use Text to Columns tab in DATA tab section as below to make the data into proper column format.

Once you prepare your data as below format then now you can start analysis using Power BI Desktop.

Step 5: Use Power BI step 3 or Step 4 to load the data into Power BI. We have use step 4 here so now use Power BI to load data from Excel source then you will get data columns in right hand side as below.

Step 6: Now start visualization using Power BI Desktop free tool, here we are using data of SQL Saturday session details and prepare different line chart, tree map, filled map , Table , R script Visual different charts that we have used to show different visualization details as below.

One can learn how to create these different charts by going through below links

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-visualizations-for-reports/

Step 7: For now just for sample how we can simply create a line chart by just drag and drop feature of Power BI Desktop.

Just go to right side of Power BI Desktop and select EventDate and SQLSATURDAY filed and drop Eventdate in Axis and SQLSATURDAY into Values section and change the SQLSATURDY value as count by just clicking on SQLSATURDY field in Values section.

Just simple so you can try these different charts by simply drag and drop feature.

For R script Visual you need to know some R language first in order to create R visualization chart in Power BI . One can learn R from https://www.r-project.org/

Step 8 :Publish these reports on Power BI cloud service by just clicking Publish button from Power BI Desktop , also now one can also publish these reports to publicly in web. Once you publish your report in Power BI service go to Reports -> Your Report -> File -> Publish to web . After that anyone can go through these reports publicly in the web.

Also, URL that you get through publish to web can be embedded to your website along.

Summary:

In Summary, from these above Power BI Desktop Visualization it helps to tells us that which SQL Saturday is conducted in which state, country in which year and a particular Day along with total sessions conducted. It also helps us to tell us that SQL Saturday trends year on year and mostly in September month most of SQL Saturday is conducted as per SQL Saturday data history.

Also, it helps to tell the distribution of state wise SQL Saturday conducted states .which shows most of SQL Saturday happens in North America.

Using Power Query to tell your story form your Facebook Data.

Most of the time of this weekend, I spent my time to extract the story behind my Facebook data by using Power Query. Power Query can connect data across a wide variety of sources, where facebook is one of the data source. By using Power Query you can extract your facebook data easily and do analysis your own story by using your own facebook data.

Talking about Power Query: Microsoft Power Query for Excel is an Excel add-in that enhances the self-service Business Intelligence experience in Excel by simplifying data discovery, access and collaboration.

Microsoft Power Query for Excel, is a new add-in that provides a seamless experience for data discovery, data transformation and enrichment for Information Workers, BI professionals and other Excel users. With Power Query you can:

Identify the data you care about from the sources you work with (e.g. relational databases, Excel, text and XML files, OData feeds, web pages, Hadoop HDFS, Facebook Data etc.).
Discover relevant data from inside(*) and outside your organization using the search capabilities within Excel.
Combine data from multiple, disparate data sources and shape it in order to prepare the data for further analysis in tools like Excel and Power Pivot, or visualization in tools like Power View and Power Map.

You can easily download from the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39379

You can find more about Power View, Power Map, Power BI and Q&A from the official Microsoft Power BI site. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/default.aspx

Now, I think you have installed Power Query add-in in Excel 2013 professional edition,

So, let’s drill into your Facebook data to extract your story .!!!

Firstly you need to open Excel sheet and go to the Power Query ribbon bar in Excel, then go to the ‘From Other Source’ section where you will see the ‘From Facebook option’ from dropdown list.

Due to the so many slides or pages, the detail step by Step guide have uploaded into my Slideshare account. You can download or go through the section in order to know how to use Power Query and how to extract your Facebook Data and how to do analysis using Power View to tell the story. Here is the Slideshare:

Slideshare link: http://www.slideshare.net/anil_maharjan/using-power-query-to-tell-your-story-form-your-facebook-data

Where I have use Power View to analyse the facebook data and give us some story to view.

Here I have used three Power Query Analysis, I think you will find these easy after you once go through the slides in above link where I have listed detail step by step method to do these analysis or if you have some knowledge of Power View then it must be quite easy to do analysis.

Power Query Analysis 1 using Power View:

Let’s see when you have added your friends.
Through this analysis you can find out the total friends added in facebook, in which year, month.
First and recent friends connected within facebook.
You can know when you are connected with which friend.

Happy to see the results. 🙂

Now you want to know first and recent friends connected within Facebook along with which time they have added . You can get it by using period field in Tile By and story field in rows with friend added filter field in column . This shows the first friends that you have added in facebook. Happy to see the result. 🙂

If you need to find out the recent added friends in Facebook then just click the last period.

Here as per chart I can clearly see that I have added a lot of friends in 2009 and 2010. Since that is the year when I had completed my computer engineering course and most of my time I was spending in facebook. Quite amazing it does remind my past college life. Power Query along with Power View actually can tell us story of our own. Happy to find out my past.

This is such a cool tool, Power Query and Power View along with Power BI, You can visualize the things you just want to see.

Power Query Analysis 2 using Power View:

Ø Now, let’s see how many of your friends are male and female.

I think after going through the slides you will surely know how to get the data from Facebook using Power Query for friend list and how to use Power View to analysis. You can go through detail steps again from slides to do this analysis.

Power Query Analysis 3 using Power View:

Let’s see your facebook activities from past to present.

This will help you to track down how much time have you spent in facebook and how frequent you post or update your feeds.

This will helps facebook to track down the facebook user usage trend.

How and when user is spending the time in facebook.
Why the facebook user usage trend is decreasing or increasing.
What is the reason behind the feeds data of user is decreasing or increasing.

For the facebook activities analysis, you can use the same feed information worksheet and by creating new Power View and line chart option you can start analysis of facebook activities from different perspective.

From graph we can clearly see that there is a huge spike in 200907 to somewhat up to 201003 this is still because this is the time when I had completed my computer engineering course and most of my time I was spending in facebook.

Also, going on next year in 201109 there is another spike which is due to that month is my birthday on 04thSeptember, where there is more feeds regarding my birthday wishes.

Now, let’s see the current year facebook activates by using similar Power View and same drag and drop features and by scroll down to last month date 201405 you can see the trend of your current facebook activities.

Here from line trend analysis it seems that the facebook activates from past year to current is frequently decreasing in my case. This is due to that I am spending less time in facebook as compares to previous year where I use to spend most of my time.

Reference:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/default.aspx

http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife/using-microsoft-power-query-to-analyze-facebook-data

http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/excel-help/introduction-to-microsoft-power-query-for-excel-HA104003940.aspx

SUMMARY:

Power Query along with Power View actually can tell us story of your own. This is how Power Query along with Power View can tell your story by using your own facebook data. Happy to find out my past.

Quite amazing it does remind my past college life.

This is such a cool tool, Power Query and Power View along with Power BI, You can visualize the things you just want to see.

Also, I am thinking that if facebook provides our friends location data then it will be so easy to find out the friends and family around the world. Where Power Map will be more useful to track down the friends whom we have no idea where she or he is but we do connected with facebook in virtual world. If we can think of creating facebook friends and family location track app which will helps us to find out where exact is our friends and family are located based on the current location information of facebook data.

Thanks,

Anil Maharjan