Susan Hostetter

Paper and Presentation: How to Get More from Your Performance Data with Microsoft’s PowerBI

Abstract: This paper and presentation will outline the process to create a Performance Dashboard in Microsoft’s PowerBI that will enable an organization to see their data in new ways. PowerBI lets you upload, model and create measures to help you explore your data with visualizations organized in reports and dashboards. This paper will outline the processes for creating a dashboard in the PowerBI application. It will cover how to:

• Import and format data tables
• Create a dashboard
• Create and format measures
• Create and use data slicers

Additionally, the paper and presentation will discuss the challenges of:

• Data transformation
• Data surfacing
• Learning the application controls

And the benefits of:

• Building a chart once for many datasets
• Quickly creating a dashboard without IT resources
• Communicating important data to stakeholders

PMI Talent Triangle: Technical Project Management

Biography: Susan Hostetter, PMP, is a project manager and statistical professional with over 20 years of operations and PM experience. She has been instrumental in standing up and improving PM processes for risk, portfolios, schedules, cost, performance and strategic management and planning. Her papers have been published in the PM World Journal and she has presented project management topics at PMI chapter events and the University of Maryland’s and University of Texas at Dallas’ PM Symposiums. She has a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, a Master’s Degree in Management from the University of Maryland’s University College and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and minor in Economics, from Mary Baldwin College. Susan can be contacted at susan.lynn.hostetter@census.gov