From Chaos to Clarity with Fabric
Building Your First End-to-End Fabric Project
Discover how fast data can turn into insight.
In this one-hour, hands-on session, you’ll follow along with Pragmatic Works’ Mitchell Pearson (plus a second instructor) and Microsoft experts in live chat, including Adam Saxton from Guy in a Cube.
Together, we’ll go from raw data to a finished visualizing that data in Power BI Visuals, all powered by Microsoft Fabric and Copilot. You'll connect to data, build a Lakehouse, model relationships, and visualize results in one hour.
You’ll walk away understanding how Fabric brings your entire analytics process together, and how Copilot can speed up every step.
The session is live, practical, and recorded so you can replay and rebuild anytime.
Data Analysts
Ready to move beyond reports and dashboards? Learn how to scale your Power BI skills by tapping into Microsoft Fabric’s unified data foundation—connecting, transforming, and modeling data across your organization faster than ever before.
Power BI Developers
Curious about how Fabric redefines the data experience? Discover new ways to build, automate, and optimize data pipelines, explore the Lakehouse architecture, and leverage Copilot to accelerate development.
Power BI users
Looking to understand Fabric end-to-end? See how every piece—from ingestion to insights—comes together in one seamless environment. You’ll leave knowing how Fabric empowers self-service analytics with enterprise-grade performance.
Business and Tech Leaders
Want to see how Fabric actually works in real time? Watch a live, step-by-step demo showing how Fabric unifies data, AI, and analytics in one modern experience—and envision what that could mean for your team’s productivity and decision-making.
What You’ll Learn
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Fabric Lakehouse:Bring data into a Lakehouse, explore the difference between Lakehouse and Warehouse, and organize your Bronze → Silver layers for clarity and performance.
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Clean & transform data:Use Dataflow Gen2 and Fabric Notebooks to cleanse, reshape, and publish your data.
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Fabric Semantic Model:Build a Semantic Model, define relationships, and create measures to drive trustworthy analytics.
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Visualize with Power BI:
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Standalone Copilot:Lear about the chat with your data experience that exist with the Standalone Copilot experience in Microsoft Fabric. Experience the standout time-saving features that make real analytics work dramatically faster.
Agenda at a Glance
Intro & setup
How to follow along, file locations, and recording info. (Download files)
Load data
Create your Lakehouse, set ADLS shortcuts, and upload files.
Transform data
Clean and transform using Dataflow Gen2 and Fabric Notebooks.
Semantic Model
Build relationships and calculated measures.
Power BI report
Build your report from Fabric data.
Wrap up & next steps
Microsoft Learn links and upcoming Fabric learning sessions.
