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Jessica Hill - Apprentice Engineer II

Jessica Hill

Apprentice Engineer II

Jessica is a member of endjin's Software Engineering Apprenticeship Scheme 2021 cohort.

Meet Jessica

Jessica Hill

Jessica comes from a Biosciences background, having gained a 1st Class Bachelor of Science in Biology from The University of Manchester.

During the lockdown Jessica used the opportunity to explore her interest in technology by taking two Code First Girls online courses; Introduction to Web Development and Python Programming.

This led Jessica to look for job opportunities in the technology sector and joined endjin's 2021 apprenticeship cohort, which had over 200 applicants.

Jessica’s blog

Performance Optimisation Tools for Power BI

Performance Optimisation Tools for Power BI

Jessica Hill

Performance tuning is an important aspect of Power BI report development. This blog post highlights useful analyzer tools you can utilise to optimise the performance of your Power BI reports.
Context Transition in DAX

Context Transition in DAX

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores how the CALCULATE function in DAX performs context transition.
CALCULATE in DAX

CALCULATE in DAX

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores one of the most powerful functions in DAX - CALCULATE.
RELATED and RELATEDTABLE in DAX

RELATED and RELATEDTABLE in DAX

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores two common functions in DAX - RELATED and RELATEDTABLE.
How to dynamically switch between measures in Power BI visuals with Field Parameters

How to dynamically switch between measures in Power BI visuals with Field Parameters

Jessica Hill

Field Parameters allow users to dynamically change the measure being analysed within a report. This blog post will explore how to use the new Field Parameters feature to dynamically switch between measures in a visua.
Table Functions in DAX: DISTINCT

Table Functions in DAX: DISTINCT

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores one of the most common table functions in DAX - DISTINCT.
Table Functions in DAX: FILTER and ALL

Table Functions in DAX: FILTER and ALL

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores two of the most common table functions in DAX - FILTER and ALL.
My first six months as an apprentice software engineer at endjin

My first six months as an apprentice software engineer at endjin

Jessica Hill

Jessica joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post, Jessica reflects on her first 6 months.
Measures vs Calculated Columns in DAX and Power BI

Measures vs Calculated Columns in DAX and Power BI

Jessica Hill

This blog post explains the difference between measures and calculated columns in DAX and Power BI. It will also explore when to use a measure vs. when to use a calculated column.
Pattern Matching in C#

Pattern Matching in C#

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores how pattern matching has evolved over each version of the C# language and how to use pattern matching with is expressions, switch statements and switch expressions
Flow control in C#

Flow control in C#

Jessica Hill

This post explains how to control the flow of execution in C# by using if and switch statements and looping with for, foreach, while and do.
My first month as an apprentice software engineer at endjin

My first month as an apprentice software engineer at endjin

Jessica Hill

In this post, Jessica reflects on her first month as an apprentice software engineer at endjin