Neve has attended:
Power BI Modelling, Visualisation and Publishing course
Personal reports
Would I be able to run through a specific data set with you to see how it needs to be interlinked
RE: Personal reports
Hi Neve,
Thank you for the forum question.
Absolutely, I'd be happy to help you work through your Power BI dataset and figure out how it should be interlinked.
To get started, could you please provide the following:
A brief description of your dataset – What kind of data are you working with (e.g., sales, HR, finance)?
The tables involved – What are the names of the tables, and what kind of data does each contain?
The relationships you're trying to establish – Are you unsure about how to link certain tables, or are you trying to troubleshoot existing relationships?
Your goal – What kind of insights or visuals are you trying to create?
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
Tel: 0207 987 3777
STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
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RE: Personal reports
Hi Jens
good to hear from you
Can we further discuss this over email please due to it being a public forum please?
many thanks :)
RE: Personal reports
Hi Jens,
please see above regarding an email request instead please :)
RE: Personal reports
Hi Neve,
Yes it is a public forum and the service we offer to our clients is this forum.
Of course we understand that you do not want to share personal details but please give us generic questions and we will be happy to help.
If you want us to see your data model (not the data), you can take a screenshot of the data model and send it to info@stl-training.co.uk but all communication must be through our forum.
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
Tel: 0207 987 3777
STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
98%+ recommend us
London's leader with UK wide delivery in Microsoft Office training and management training to global brands, FTSE 100, SME's and the public sector
RE: Personal reports
The datasets would cover our mortgage professional audience. everything below is generic names etc so no data sensitive information.
Our customer accounts – we use Blueconic to hold this information which connects to Evolok when they make an account with us to store account holder information.
Table names
Main account report table: GUID|Created|blueconic_external_id|email_address|first_name|last_name|legacy_uid
If someone fills out the secondary data page, providing more information:
GUID, Created, address1_city, address1_country ,address1_county,address1_line1, address1_line2, address1_postcode, advice_area, advisors, blueconic_external_id, cases_per_month_firm, company_fca, company_name, company_type, email_address, firm_size_staff. first_name, job, last_name, legacy_uid, location
Our newsletter subscribers – we use mailchimp / blueconic to hold this information:
Email Address, First Name, Last Name, Address, Phone Number, Company name, Blueconic ID, Email, Job function, Segments, Company type, Job function, Advice area, Regulatory status, County, Segments, Segments 2, UNTITLED, MEMBER_RATING, OPTIN_TIME, OPTIN_IP, CONFIRM_TIME, CONFIRM_IP, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, GMTOFF, DSTOFF, TIMEZONE, CC, REGION, LAST_CHANGED, LEID, EUID, NOTES, TAGS (all the ones in capital are irrelevant to us really)
Event registration – most people have to make an account with us to register for an event so all the data would have the same tables as mailchimp data set or Evolok data set
We would like to establish
1) The number progression of our accounts over X amount of years (say we have X thousands now, we had X a few years ago etc, this is constantly growing)
2) The number progress of our newsletter subscribers over X amount of years
3) How many people have an account and subscribe vs how many people don’t have 1 and just the other
4) We want to also determine a bit more information on event attendees – specially the bullet points below / something like How many people attended our events with X job function being from X location with X advice area
How many people have an account / subscribe and if they attend events
Examples of information we want to put in these event reports
• Size of advice firm
• Chosen advice area
• Location
• Job function
• Number of mortgages written (firm)
• Number of mortgages written (individual)
• Number of advisers in firm
Goals – I would like to create visual reports that provide monthly or yearly growth or loss on the accounts, subscribers, event reg and how these interlink with one another
Let me know what else you need from me and I look forward to your response :)
RE: Personal reports
Hi Neve,
Thanks for the detailed overview! You're in a great position to build some powerful and insightful Power BI reports. Based on what you've shared, here's how you can break this down into actionable steps.
Key Goals & How to Achieve Them in Power BI
1. Account Growth Over Time
Data Needed: Created date from the main account table.
Visuals: Line chart or area chart showing cumulative accounts over time (monthly/yearly).
Optional: Add slicers for filtering by attributes like location, job function, etc.
2. Newsletter Subscriber Growth
Data Needed: OPTIN_TIME or similar timestamp from the Mailchimp dataset.
Visuals: Similar to above—line chart showing growth over time.
3. Overlap Between Accounts and Subscribers
Data Needed: Match on email_address or blueconic_external_id.
Visuals: Venn diagram or bar chart showing:
Only accounts
Only subscribers
Both
4. Event Attendee Insights
Data Needed: Event registration data joined with account/subscriber data.
Visuals:
Bar charts for job function, advice area, firm size, etc.
Maps for location-based insights.
Matrix or table visuals for cross-filtering (e.g., job function by location).
5. Interlinking Metrics
Data Needed: Unified dataset with flags for:
Has account
Is subscriber
Attended event
Visuals: Multi-category bar charts, funnel charts, or Sankey diagrams.
DAX formulas will be needed for calculating the growth measures and KPI.
The data need to be mapped and related across the tables to create the data model.
I assume that blueconic_external_id can be used as the primary key in a relationship.
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
Tel: 0207 987 3777
STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
98%+ recommend us
London's leader with UK wide delivery in Microsoft Office training and management training to global brands, FTSE 100, SME's and the public sector