So I’m sitting in the PASS Summit keynote, and there are some neat things being shown.
Something that just appeared on the screen was around having the location of shoppers being shown on a plan of a store. There were some ‘Oohs’ coming from around the room, as they mentioned that Kinect was being used to track locations. Hotspots were appearing on a time-driven picture.
But the thing that I think is most exciting is that this is almost all achievable right now. Collecting information from Kinect is something that my friends John & Bronwen have been presenting about for years, and displaying things on custom maps in Power BI (complete with hotspots) is also very achievable. If you don’t know how to do this, get along to Hope Foley’s session this afternoon (Wed 5th), as she explores more of what’s possible with Power Map. She wrote a post recently about Custom Maps in Power Map, which is a great blog post, walking through how to show spatial data on the plan of a building, playing it against a time dimension.
The stuff in the keynote is excellent – much of it is future, but if you’re at the PASS Summit, you can be having conversations with many of the world’s best experts about how to revolutionise your data story, not just in the future, but right now.
