Orrin Edenfield - Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide: A comprehensive guide to becoming a confident and certified Power BI professional

A comprehensive guide to becoming a confident and certified Power BI professional

Orrin Edenfield

Edward Corcoran

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Orrin Edenfield has 20 years of experience in designing and implementing data and analytics solutions. Orrin contributes to Microsoft certification exams as well as architecture best practices and blueprints, helping to solve BI problems using Power BI and more. As a cloud solution architect, Orrin helps customers solve technical obstacles and helps develop Azure platforms.

Edward Corcoran has spent 20 years working in data warehousing and business intelligence. As a cloud solution architect, Ed helps customers use Microsoft data and analytics services to solve technical obstacles and helps develop customer implementation projects to ensure easy adoption. Ed also collaborates with product engineering to aid with the development of Microsoft products and Azure platforms.

Udit Kumar Chatterjee is an experienced data analytics and data science professional with a demonstrated history of working in statistical data analysis, insights mining, and business analytics. He has worked across various sectors, including manufacturing, market research, retail, and accounting, and with reputed and big-4 firms. He is an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and a 13-times Microsoft Certified Professional, including holding the PL-300 certification and the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert) certification. He likes to empower and educate people in the field of data by actively contributing to various community platforms and LinkedIn.

I wish to thank my beloved parents for inspiring and encouraging me to achieve more on both the personal and professional fronts.

Joseph Gnanaprakasam is a data architect, husband, and father living in Virginia. He has over a decade of experience in building data engineering and business intelligence solutions. Recently, he has started sharing his musings on data at joegnan.com. He is an avid photographer and enjoys traveling.