Justin Vogel

Justin Vogel

Power BI Trainer

Meet Justin Vogel

About

Justin Vogel taught high school Advanced Placement® psychology and academic research for 15 years. He holds an MS in Psychology and spent several summers teaching psychology to educators new to the subject. He has also scored AP exams, reviewed textbooks for the Florida Department of Education, and written exam questions for test banks. He has presented at professional learning conferences at the local and national level and now puts his teaching and presentation skills to use on the Power BI team at Pragmatic Works.

Certifications

Courses

Course

Dashboard in a Day

Power BI is a business analytics service that gives you a single view of your business data, with the ability to monitor the health of your business using live dashboards, create rich interactive reports and access your data on the go, from your mobile devices. Microsoft in partnership with Pragmatic Works are pleased to offer this course covering the capabilities of Power BI. The goal of this informational session is to help you understand how to analyze your data in a rich and compelling way. Whether you are evaluating its ability to meet organizational requirements around data visualization and analysis or are looking to learn how Power BI can help you be more efficient and make a greater impact on the work you do every day, this is the training for you.

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Introduction to Microsoft Teams

Whether you're new to Microsoft Teams or just looking to get more comfortable, Introduction to Microsoft Teams with Justin Vogel will help you master the basics. This course walks you through how to use Teams for messaging, meetings, file sharing, and collaboration—all in one place. It’s designed for beginners who want to confidently connect with their team and stay productive. Justin breaks down key features step by step, showing you how to join and host meetings, organize conversations, and work with files directly inside Teams. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to use Teams effectively for both day-to-day tasks and long-term collaboration—no IT background required.

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Meetings in Microsoft Teams

Hosting or joining virtual meetings shouldn’t be complicated. In Meetings in Microsoft Teams, instructor Justin Vogel guides you through the entire meeting experience—from scheduling and joining to sharing content and using advanced features. Whether you're leading a team, running a webinar, or just want smoother video calls, this course will help you feel confident using Teams to communicate effectively. You’ll learn how to set up meetings, manage participants, use breakout rooms, record sessions, and collaborate in real time. Justin walks you through best practices for both organizers and attendees, so you can make the most out of every meeting. If you want to save time, reduce confusion, and run more productive meetings in Microsoft Teams, this course is for you.

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Microsoft 365 in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is more than just chat—it’s a powerful hub for all your Microsoft 365 tools. In Microsoft 365 in Microsoft Teams, Justin Vogel shows you how to access, share, and collaborate on Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and more—without ever leaving Teams. This course is perfect for users who want to streamline their workflow and bring their productivity tools into one unified space. Through hands-on examples, you’ll learn how to co-edit documents in real time, manage file permissions, and integrate Microsoft 365 apps directly into your Teams environment. Justin also covers helpful tips for organizing files, tracking updates, and boosting team collaboration. Whether you’re new to Teams or looking to use it more effectively, this course will help you work smarter with Microsoft 365.

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Pragmatic Guides - DAX Text Functions

Unlock the full potential of your data with DAX Text Functions in this focused installment of the Pragmatic Guides series. Taught by Justin Vogel, this course breaks down essential DAX text functions one at a time, giving you clear, practical examples of how to clean, transform, and analyze text data inside Power BI. Whether you're formatting labels, extracting key information, or creating dynamic titles for your visuals, each module walks you through a specific function with hands-on demonstrations and real-world use cases. This course is perfect for learners who want to sharpen their DAX skills without the fluff—just straightforward guidance, one function at a time.

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Pragmatic Guides - DAX Date and Time Functions

The Pragmatic Guides – Date and Time Functions course provides a focused, hands-on exploration of essential DAX functions for working with dates and times in Power BI. Each module is dedicated to a single function, allowing you to quickly understand its purpose, syntax, and common use cases. Whether you’re calculating date differences, formatting time values, or building rolling period measures, this course equips you with the practical knowledge needed to manage and analyze time-based data effectively. Justin Vogel breaks down each function in an approachable way, making this a go-to resource for analysts, developers, and Power BI users who want to sharpen their DAX skills and confidently handle date and time calculations.

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Configurating Power BI Data Gateways

Bridge your on-premises data to the cloud with confidence. In Configurating Power BI Data Gateways, Justin Vogel shows you how gateways enable the Power BI Service to securely access data that lives behind your firewall or in private networks. You’ll learn when to use Standard vs. Personal mode, what prerequisites and permissions are required, and how to plan a clean installation—covering service accounts, regions, and basic network considerations like proxies and ports. Step by step, you’ll install a gateway, register it to your tenant, and connect common sources so reports refresh reliably. Once you’re up and running, the course turns to day-to-day management and best practices. Justin walks through configuring data sources in the Power BI Service, mapping credentials, and choosing between scheduled refresh and DirectQuery/Live scenarios. You’ll explore high availability with gateway clusters, tips for performance, and practical troubleshooting using logs and diagnostics. The course wraps with governance and security guidance—least-privilege access, ownership models, and change management—so you can keep your organization’s gateways stable, secure, and easy to maintain.

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Mastering the Star Schema

In Mastering the Star Schema, Justin Vogel walks you through how to design clean, intuitive data models that make reporting easier instead of harder. You’ll learn the core concepts of star schema ,design facts vs. dimensions, grain, surrogate keys, and relationships and why this structure is so widely used in analytics and Power BI. Justin shows how a good star schema simplifies DAX, improves performance, and helps report consumers slice and drill without confusion. From there, you’ll see how to apply these ideas in practical scenarios. You’ll walk through modeling common business processes, handling slowly changing dimensions, dealing with role-playing dates, and avoiding common traps like snowflaking and over-normalization. Along the way, Justin shares naming, documentation, and validation tips so your models stay understandable and maintainable as they grow. By the end, you’ll know how to design star schemas that are robust, performant, and ready for self-service BI.

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The Standalone Copilot Experience in Fabric

In The Standalone Copilot Experience in Fabric, Justin Vogel introduces a practical way to use Copilot as your “front door” to Microsoft Fabric, even when you’re not working inside a specific report, notebook, or dataset. You’ll learn what the standalone Copilot experience is, what it’s designed to help with, and how to use it to move faster when you’re exploring features, planning a workflow, or trying to understand what to do next. This course keeps the focus on real productivity, turning vague questions into clear next steps. You’ll also learn how to get consistently useful results by giving Copilot the right context and asking better questions. Justin covers easy prompting patterns, how to iterate when the first answer isn’t perfect, and simple guardrails to keep your work accurate and appropriate for your environment. By the end, you’ll be able to use Copilot in Fabric as a reliable guide, speeding up learning, reducing trial and error, and helping you feel more confident navigating the platform.

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Preparing Data for AI in Power BI

In Preparing Data for AI in Power BI, Justin Vogel shows you how to get your data into the right shape for AI-driven analysis. You’ll learn how to clean, standardize, and structure datasets so AI tools can produce more accurate summaries, insights, and results. The course focuses on practical preparation steps inside the Power BI ecosystem, including common data issues that cause AI outputs to be misleading, inconsistent, or unusable. You’ll also learn how to think about “AI-ready” data, clear column meaning, consistent formats, trustworthy categories, and well-designed relationships. Justin covers best practices for reducing noise, handling missing values, and organizing your model so downstream AI features work smoothly. By the end, you’ll have a repeatable preparation workflow you can apply before using Copilot, Q&A, or other AI experiences in Power BI.

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Getting Started with Copilot in Fabric

In Getting Started With Copilot in Fabric, Justin Vogel walks you through the foundational setup required to use Copilot successfully in Microsoft Fabric. This course is designed to remove the most common blockers, licensing and capacity readiness, workspace access, and tenant configuration, so you can enable Copilot with confidence instead of troubleshooting in circles. You’ll learn what needs to be in place behind the scenes before Copilot features will appear and work reliably. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clear, repeatable setup checklist. Justin shows how to create the right Fabric capacity, assign workspaces appropriately, and configure tenant settings so Copilot is available to the right users in the right places. This is the ideal starting point for admins and platform owners who want to roll out Copilot in Fabric safely, predictably, and with minimal friction.

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Bootcamps

Boot Camps

Jul 13 Virtual Power BI Bootcamp

Creating Business Intelligence solutions no longer has to be a long, arduous process reserved exclusively for IT professionals. Power BI empowers you to build beautifully designed reports and dashboards independently, providing instant satisfaction for your data needs. This course introduces you to the Power BI ecosystem, guiding you from data discovery to developing solutions and solving complex business problems. You’ll start by importing data and applying business rules, then organize the results into a data model with relationships and calculations. Finally, you’ll learn the best practices for visualizing your data through various charts, graphs, maps, and gauges. Additionally, you’ll explore how to deploy solutions to the Power BI Service and create dashboards accessible from any device. Pragmatic Works bootcamps include interactive, hands-on labs that let you apply what you’re learning in real time. With expert instructors available for guidance and support, you’ll build skills by doing—not just watching.

Boot Camps

Aug 03 DP-600 Fabric Virtual Bootcamp

Welcome to the DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric Bootcamp, a comprehensive and immersive four-day training program designed to prepare participants for the DP-600 certification exam. This bootcamp is meticulously crafted by industry experts to provide a hands-on learning experience, ensuring that participants gain practical insights and real-world applications of Microsoft Fabric for data analytics. Whether you are a data professional or transitioning into analytics, this bootcamp will help you master the tools and techniques needed to implement end-to-end analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric.

Boot Camps

Aug 10 Virtual Power BI Bootcamp

Creating Business Intelligence solutions no longer has to be a long, arduous process reserved exclusively for IT professionals. Power BI empowers you to build beautifully designed reports and dashboards independently, providing instant satisfaction for your data needs. This course introduces you to the Power BI ecosystem, guiding you from data discovery to developing solutions and solving complex business problems. You’ll start by importing data and applying business rules, then organize the results into a data model with relationships and calculations. Finally, you’ll learn the best practices for visualizing your data through various charts, graphs, maps, and gauges. Additionally, you’ll explore how to deploy solutions to the Power BI Service and create dashboards accessible from any device. Pragmatic Works bootcamps include interactive, hands-on labs that let you apply what you’re learning in real time. With expert instructors available for guidance and support, you’ll build skills by doing—not just watching.

Boot Camps

Aug 24 Virtual DAX Bootcamp

So you’ve been working with DAX in Power BI but either can’t quite complete the calculations needed or maybe you just want to expand your knowledge and utilize more capabilities of DAX to bring your reports to the next level – this is the course for you! In this in-depth DAX Bootcamp, all of your DAX knowledge will be enhanced to a point where you will have the tools to create any kind of calculation that is possible within the DAX language. You will also be learning about best practices, performance tuning, and much more! Pragmatic Works bootcamps include interactive, hands-on labs that let you apply what you’re learning in real time. With expert instructors available for guidance and support, you’ll build skills by doing—not just watching.

Boot Camps

Aug 31 Virtual SharePoint For Users Bootcamp

Welcome to the SharePoint bootcamp, an immersive two-day training program designed to equip SharePoint users with a comprehensive knowledge base of SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries. This bootcamp is meticulously crafted by industry experts to provide a hands-on learning experience, ensuring that participants gain practical insights and real-world applications of SharePoint. Whether you are a beginner or have some prior experience, this bootcamp will help you master the tools and techniques needed to use, design, or otherwise interact with SharePoint.

Boot Camps

Aug 31 Virtual SharePoint Bootcamp

Welcome to the SharePoint bootcamp, a comprehensive and immersive three-day training program designed to equip SharePoint users with a comprehensive knowledge base of SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries. This bootcamp is also available to purchase by sessions grouped in day 1 and 2 as one session and day 3 as the other. You can find those listed on our bootcamps page on our website. This bootcamp is meticulously crafted by industry experts to provide a hands-on learning experience, ensuring that participants gain practical insights and real-world applications of SharePoint. Whether you are a beginner or have some prior experience, this bootcamp will help you master the tools and techniques needed to use, design, or otherwise interact with SharePoint.

Boot Camps

Sep 02 Virtual SharePoint For Administrators Bootcamp

Welcome to the SharePoint for Administrators bootcamp, an informative one-day training program designed to equip SharePoint administrators with a comprehensive knowledge base of SharePoint’s administrative features. This bootcamp is meticulously crafted by industry experts to provide a hands-on learning experience, ensuring that participants gain practical insights and real-world applications of SharePoint. Whether you are a beginner or have some prior experience, this bootcamp will help you master the tools and techniques needed to use, design, or otherwise interact with SharePoint as an administrator.

Boot Camps

Sep 09 Virtual Power BI: Paginated Reports Bootcamp

Power BI is a highly adaptable technology allowing you to produce reporting solutions to fit the needs of each business problem faced. Traditional Power BI reports provides highly interactive solutions for dashboards while Paginated Reports are designed for pixel-perfect reports that are optimized for printing. The task for the report developer is to choose the right tool for the job. This class focuses on understanding the capabilities of Paginated Reports in Power BI. You will learn how to use Report Builder to connect to data, make reports dynamic and share reports with others. Pragmatic Works bootcamps include interactive, hands-on labs that let you apply what you’re learning in real time. With expert instructors available for guidance and support, you’ll build skills by doing—not just watching.

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