by David Pott | Aug 18, 2020 | Analysis, Power BI
I’m often asked where school staff should start when learning about Power BI, so here’s a post that lists all the online resources that have helped me to learn Power BI over the last couple of years. First, here’s all the online websites that... by David Pott | Aug 17, 2020 | Advanced, Power BI
Academic terms (certainly for UK schools) are difficult to pin down in statistical terms. Typically Easter falls in a different week each year, altering the relative lenths of the spring and summer terms and making direct comparisons between years difficult. The... 
by David Pott | May 4, 2020 | Assessment
Readers of this blog will know that Power BI is a powerful tool for analysing school data. But for those with responsibility for data across a multi-academy trust (MAT) the gulf between what Power BI promises and what we can deliver, given time-constraints and... 
by David Pott | Jan 7, 2020 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Power BI
In this article, I’ll show you how Power BI can create drillable graphs based on terms, academic years and the days of the week. Edit: There’s lots of really useful comments at the bottom of this article and I do recommend you read them. Whenever we... 
by David Pott | Jun 9, 2019 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Demonstration, Intermediate, Performance 8, Power BI, Primary, Progress 8, Secondary
You can’t just throw a few Power BI visuals into a report and expect users to be able to analyse their data more effectively. In this post I try to highlight what I think makes an effective Power BI report. Firstly, I recommend anyone starting to work with data... 
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