Environmental Data Storytelling - Gippsland Water's Urban Water Strategy: Power BI and Data Analytics for Enviro’s (September 2021)

The "Power BI and Data Analytics for Enviros" meetup group is all about sharing tips, tricks and hacks for analysing, visualising and communicating environmental data. The purpose of this blog is to summarise the key take-aways from each of the presenters, to help with sharing knowledge, empowering others and creating a strong data culture within our community.

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In September we were lucky to have Jolyon Taylor and Catherine Couling from Gippsland Water join us, to talk about the recently released Power BI report used as a supporting tool to communicate Gippsland Water's 2022 Urban Water Strategy (UWS), which is an interactive dashboard available for the public: https://www.gippswater.com.au/uws. Catherine and Jolyon presented the vision behind the tool, the journey the Gippsland Water team went on during the Power BI development process and the benefits they have seen so far in presenting this data through an interactive dashboard, and the community response to learning where their water comes from and where their sewerage goes. Christian and Alice also then presented some more of the technical elements behind the report design, especially the use of custom visuals, navigation buttons and accessibility considerations.

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Gippsland Water's Urban Water Strategy

Jolyon Taylor and Catherine Couling

Hear from Jolyon and Catherine as they take us through the ideas for the original concept design of the dashboard, the teams vision on how this tool can be used for stakeholder engagement and the journey they took in designing and developing it.

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Power BI Techniques for the UWS Dashboard

Christian Borovac and Alice Drummond

Christian and Alice followed on from the Gippsland Water team by talking about some of the awesome Power BI features built into the Power BI dashboard. From interactive infographics using Synoptic Panel, custom maps using the Icon Map and navigation features through buttons and bookmarks there is a lot available for us these days as Power BI report developers.

And in October, we’re going to Brazil (virtually of course), to hear from the team at Cetrel on some of their Power BI applications they have created for the environmental industry - don’t forget to sign up for the event here: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/powerbi4enviros/events/280782507/

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