Frank and I are honored to welcome Kamal Hathi to Data Driven this week! We had a great interview with Kamal and we’re sure you will enjoy hearing from a General Manager at Microsoft about Power BI!
Notable Quotes:
- “We’ve [Microsoft] been in this space for a while .. two decades” (7:02)
- “BI for the Masses” (7:24)
- The “5 by 5” design ethic of PowerBI (8:36)
- “PowerBI growing organically like crazy.” (9:22)
- “An organic community that loves the product” (9:43)
- Excel jockeys run the world. (11:01)
- “PowerBI is the PowerPoint for Data” (12:10)
- “Excel is a universal tool and PowerBI works very closely with Excel” (13:40)
- “A number of capabilities that no other tool has” (14:53)
- “PowerBI was built in a modern age, so it’s a modern tool” (15:33)
- Frank “fan boys out” at PowerBI’s awesomeness. (16:30)
- Using Cortana and not realizing your using PowerBI (16:50)
- Leveraging Microsoft Research’s brainpower and innovations (18:10)
- “And then the AI kicks in and finds all kinds of interesting suggestions.” (19:24)
- Detecting “ballot stuffing” in User Voice with PowerBI. (19:47)
- “Assistive Intelligence” (20:48)
- Virtuous cycle of customer feedback and iterative development (23:59)
- Experimental features (27:27)
- “We are Data Driven” (27:57)
- Impacting the world with PowerBI (29:34)
- News organizations, charities, NGOs, and local governments using PowerBI (32:11)
- Karate (35:58)
- Thinking in German (40:00)
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