🕊️ Fabric Community DataViz Contest | May 2025

[slindsay]

Post updated: 30 May 2025

Huge congratulations to everyone who participated in this month's challenge! We saw participation from beginners, experts, and everyone in-between, and we're so grateful that you spent your time creating reports for our community contest.

🎉 Congratulations to Bibiano Geraldo on your fantastic data story! You blew the judges away with your design and creativity. This contest was SO difficult to judge - so many of you created fabulous entries. Learn more about our winner and see the judges favorites in our special post.

🙏🏼 Thanks again to everyone who participated! We're already excited for the next contest!

👀 Check out all of the fantastic entries in the gallery and be sure to like and comment on the entries you love!

👨🏼‍⚖️ Are you curious about who is juding your entries? Meet our panel of highly qualified judges!

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Welcome to the Fabric Community DataViz Contest for the month of May 2025! We’re running our first community-led contest where we’ll regularly explore a new theme through data storytelling - and this time, we’re taking flight with a topic that’s all around us: Birds.

📆  Key dates:

• 1 May 2025: We'll release the dataset and the contest begins at 9:00am PT.
• 21 May 2025: Contest closes, submissions are due by 11:59pm PT.
• 30 May 2025: We'll announce the winner!
  
  

🐦  This Month's Theme: Birds

May marks the heart of bird migration season in many parts of the world, especially across the Northern Hemisphere. As temperatures rise and ecosystems bloom, millions of birds travel vast distances between continents, transforming skies and soundscapes as they go. It’s a time when people all over the world look up in wonder (and we thought it was the perfect opportunity to do the same with our data!).

Birds also give us a fascinating lens into biodiversity, climate, habitat change, and even culture.

🤔  Did you know?

1. The bar-tailed godwit holds the record for the longest nonstop flight - traveling over 8,000 miles from Alaska to New Zealand without landing once (not even to eat or sleep!) It flies for more than 10 days straight powered purely by stored fat.
2. Swifts can stay in the air for up to 10 months without landing - eating, sleeping, and even mating mid-flight. These aerial acrobats practically live in the sky, touching down only to nest.
3. Some birds migrate at altitudes higher than Mount Everest. The bar-headed goose, for example, soars over the Himalayas at heights above 29,000 feet, where oxygen levels are dangerously low (yet they do it with ease!)

💡  Get inspired by questions like:

• Where do different bird species migrate across the seasons?
• How have bird populations changed over time?
• What are the top birdwatching spots globally?
• How does urbanization affect native bird species?
  

📂   Datasets to Get Started With

Your task is to find a dataset related to birds, analyze it, and create a compelling Power BI report. You’re welcome to use any dataset that fits the theme - but if you're not sure where to start, here are a few great options to explore:

• Bird Migration Dataset
• Bird Monitoring Data
• Migratory Birds

🛠️   Requirements

Your submission will be evaluated based on how well it meets the following:

   📊  Get and transform data

• Choose a dataset that relates to this month’s theme: birds.
• You must cite the source of your publicly available dataset clearly in your report.
• Use Power BI to import and transform your data as needed.
  
  

   🎨   Create engaging visuals

• Use at least one Power BI core visual.
• Visuals should be engaging, clean, and insightful.
• Meet accessibility standards: include alt text, set a logical tab order, and ensure color contrast is readable.
  

📅   Challenge Duration

• The Power BI Challenge runs from 01 May 2025 to 21 May 2025.
• Submissions must be completed and shared by 21 May 2025 to be considered.
• Late submissions will not be accepted after the deadline.

📝  How do I participate?

1. Join the Fabric Community: You must be a member of the Fabric Community to participate. Select either Register or Sign-In in the menu at the top of this page to join!
2. Create Your Winning Report: Read the contest requirements (above) and use Power BI to design data visualizations that are insightful, visually effective, accessible, and creative. Your report must contain at least one core visual and no more than 5 report pages.
3. Submit Your Entry: Entries will be submitted in the contests gallery between May 01 and May 21. Note that you do NOT need to have a Power BI tenant to submit. You can submit either a Publish to Web URL or a Power BI Desktop file (.pbix).
4. Ask questions: add to the forum discussion with questions or comments! See the official rules for more info.
   

🏆 How will entries be scored?

Submissions will be scored by a panel of judges 40 points based on the following:

• Insightfulness (10 points): are insights meaningful, clear, and relevant to the theme?
• Visual Effectiveness (10 points): is the report visually clear, easy to follow, and informative?
• Accessibility (10 points): was the report designed for accessibility, considering alt text, tab order, and appropriate color contrast?
• Wow factor/creativity (10 points): was the report designed creatively? Did the creator think outside the box? Does the report stand out?
  

📊  Need Inspiration?

Not sure where to begin or just want to see what’s possible in Power BI? Check out the incredible entries from the Power BI DataViz World Championships in the Featured Gallery. These reports showcase a wide range of data storytelling styles - from beautifully themed reports to and creative visual hacks.

Browse, get inspired, and then bring your own unique twist to this month’s "Birds" challenge!

💬   Need Help?

Have questions or stuck on something? Join the conversation and drop your queries in the forum – we’re here to help.

🤔   What's in it for me?

In addition to prizes and bragging rights, participating in a Fabric Community DataViz Contest is a fantastic opportunity to:

• Build your Power BI portfolio
• Showcase your skills
• Learn and grow
• Connect with the community
• Get feedback from peers and experts

Whether you're in it to win it or just want to challenge yourself and have fun, this contest is for you!

🧑🏼‍💻  Meet your host, Sahir Maharaj!

Fabric Community Contests are created by the community, for the community! We're thrilled that contest afficianado and Fabric Super User, Sahir, has volunteered to host this month's competition. Sahir designed the contest from start to finish, and we're so grateful for his dedication and partnership!

🦸🏼 What is a Super User?

Super Users are key contributors to the Microsoft Fabric Community, voluntarily sharing their expertise, insights, and best practices. Check out What is a Super User to learn more about the Super User program.

Let's go!! We can’t wait to see how you bring the bird world to life through data. Have fun, learn something new, and inspire others!

[Sahir_Maharaj]

Super excited to kick things off, @slindsay - this one’s going to be fun!

[technolog]

@slindsayThank you so much for organizing this exciting event! Appreciate all the hard work you and the team put into making this happen. 🚀

[thefarside]

I'm excited to see more of these! Thanks for hosting and organizing!

[DataGuru412]

super excited

[Puranjoy_Patra]

Exiting to participate this amazing challenge. 

[technolog]

@Puranjoy_Patra So glad to hear that!😎

[Rufyda]

Excited to join the Fabric Community DataViz Contest
The Birds theme is both creative and meaningful.
Looking forward to learning, sharing, and seeing everyone’s amazing visualizations.

[Aala_Ali]

This is very excited opportinunity,, Thanx for this amazing Challenge!!

[Sahir_Maharaj]

@Aala_Ali this is such a great way to sharpen your skills without the pressure.

[Sahir_Maharaj]

@Rufyda appreciate the good vibes! We built this to be accessible and exciting. Hope you’ll throw something into the mix!

[Amira_Bakry]

Excited to do this 

[edchuy]

I'm quite excited to have the opportunity to participate in a new contest! I wonder what the winner gets ...

[slindsay]

@edchuy - the winner will get ✨fame✨ and glory, oh, and a sweet prize pack courtesy of the Super Users program!

[Magudeswaran_MR]

@slindsayThis event presents a fantastic opportunity to showcase expertise in data analysis and visualization using Power BI. Also its useful to demonstrate impactful insights through interactive dashboards and compelling reports. Thanks for sharing this event. 

[fernando_orsa]

Great initiative @slindsay  This is valuable opportunity to showcase the talent of individuals who, thanks to Microsoft and especially Power BI, can develop solutions with a positive global impact. I think it's fantastic that the wow factor (creativity) has now been included as part of scoring criteria. I'm already looking forward to the surprises this competition will bring 👀