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My notes

These are notes from training sessions, events and conversations with teams. They are not summaries or polished articles. They are short reflections on topics that stayed with me long enough to be worth writing down.

Most recent notes

  • From tables to models
    Pivotal data moment #3: build a small star schema yourself. Pick a domain, click the columns into place and see the difference between facts, filters and keys.
  • Frequently Asked Queries — Power Query
    Pivotal data moment #2: a nod to Power Query. How to start, which functions are inside, where you'll find it and what to do when you want to go further.
  • From VLOOKUP to join
    How a simple Excel trick showed me for the first time how tables connect and everything that joins brought after that.
  • PL-300: Why fundamentals still matter in the Fabric era
    FabCon session / April 2026. Fabric brings more workloads. The end goal has not changed. A look at why the four pillars behind PL-300 still offer the clearest path.
  • Starting small
    Why you do not need a large data team or complex infrastructure to build useful reports.
  • AI now builds your data model too
    How you can use instructions, skills and an MCP server to have AI generate semantic models.

Notes from the Power BI User Days 2026

At the Power BI Gebruikersdagen 2026 I attended several sessions on modelling, governance, AI and the evolution of the platform. Below are the notes from that event.

  • Data governance
    Why governance is becoming more relevant, what ownership means in practice, and how to get started as an organisation.
  • AI and Power BI
    Three directions in which AI is changing the platform: MCP servers, data agents in Fabric and building custom visuals with code.
  • Data products and data contracts
    What it means to treat data as a product, and how data contracts give data users predictability.

Other notes

  • Data modelling
    Why a solid data model is still the most important Power BI skill, and why shortcuts make things harder later.
  • Power BI as a development platform
    How Power BI has grown into a development platform with Git, CI/CD pipelines and code integrations.

About these notes

The topics covered here — governance, AI, modelling, the role of fundamentals in a broadening toolset — are the same themes that come up regularly when working with teams on training and custom sessions. Writing them down is a way of thinking through them more carefully.

Created by Björn, with support of AI, owned by Dogoda. More disclaimers, here.