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Metro-Detroit Microsoft Fabric User Group - Q3 2025

Join us as we dive into user presentations about Microsoft Fabric, explore use cases, tips and tricks. It’s a great opportunity to connect with fellow professionals and enthusiasts who are looking to leverage the full potential of Microsoft Fabric in their work.

Whether you're new to Microsoft Fabric, or an experienced user, this group is designed to foster learning, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing!

AGENDA:

3:00: Intros and Welcome

3:10: Effective Data Visualization, presented by David Giard, Mircosoft

4:15: Q&A 

 

Effective Data Visualization

We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way.

Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user.

In this session, I will explain some of Tufte's most important guidelines about data visualization and how you can apply those guidelines to your own data. You will learn what to include, what to remove, and what to avoid in your charts, graphs, maps and other images that represent data.

Presented by: David Giard, Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

David is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over three decades. Currently, David helps people design and build solutions in his role as a Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft. David has been very active in the developer community, speaking at numerous major conferences, code camps, and user groups around the world; helping to lead user groups; and helping to organize conferences and other geek events.