Meagan Longoria

Meagan Longoria is a consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates in Denver, CO where she shares her expertise in Microsoft BI and data warehousing through solution envisioning, architecture design, solution development, training, and blogging. She is a speaker at user groups and conferences across the country.

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Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I’m excited to announce that I’m joining forces with Melissa Coates (aka SQL Chick) to do a full-day PASS Summit...

2018-04-12

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Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Accessibility is often overlooked or ignored when it comes to reporting and data visualization. I think there are two reasons...

2018-03-09

1,033 reads

Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I recently wrote a post on the BlueGranite blog called Improving Screen Reader Accessibility in Power BI Reports. It contains...

2018-02-13 (first published: 2018-02-06)

1,993 reads

Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I’ve been working in the field of business intelligence for over ten years, as a consultant for over five years....

2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)

2,753 reads

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...

2017-12-28

486 reads

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...

2017-12-22

770 reads

Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...

2017-12-18

689 reads

Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I have decided to write a series of blog posts about visual design concepts that can have a big impact...

2017-12-08 (first published: 2017-11-27)

2,382 reads

Biml for a Task Factory Dynamics CRM Source Component

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I recently worked on a project where a client wanted to use Biml to create SSIS packages to stage data...

2017-12-05 (first published: 2017-11-22)

1,245 reads

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports – Part 2: Preattentive Attributes

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Preattentive attributes are visual properties that we notice without using conscious effort to do so. Preattentive processes take place within 200ms...

2017-11-30

829 reads

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Meagan Longoria

Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates

Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible

Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility

Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test

Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles

Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports

Biml for a Task Factory Dynamics CRM Source Component

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports – Part 2: Preattentive Attributes

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