Announcing Power BI Dashboard Contest (win $500 prizes!)

Hey there, I have a SUPER exciting announcement! April is about to get a whole lot sweeter with our Power BI Dashboard Contest! Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Craft the most EPIC dashboard for the Awesome Chocolates CEO with sales & financial insights! Winners stand a chance to score up to $500 in Amazon Gift Cards, plus some serious bragging rights!

Contest Rules and Information

1. Participants must use Power BI (any recent version) to create the dashboard.
2. The dashboard should be built with native visuals only. No add-ons or marketplace visuals or Python/R visuals.
3. The dashboard should contain a readme / help tab to explain the features and methodology.
4. Your dashboard should feature the Awesome Chocolates logo, contest title on it. These assets are included in the dataset file below.
5. Limit your dashboard to one Power BI Page (readme / help goes on a separate page)
6. You are free to combine the business data of Awesome Chocolates with any publicly available datasets. Credit any sources in the readme / help tab.
7. The participant agrees to allow indefinite copyright and sharing of the workbooks (and any extra datasets) with chandoo.org for further publication, remixing, and usage.
8. Your dashboard should be submitted by 30th of April 2024 using the upload instructions (to be added later).
9. Participants agree to have their name and any social media handles listed on the contest website.
10. Only one entry per participant. But your dashboard PBIX may contain more than one page with different versions of the dashboard.

How to participate:

I have set up an exclusive community on Microsoft Teams to run & manage this contest. To participate, please follow the below-instructions.

1. You need a personal email address (such as @gmail.com  or @hotmail.com) or your phone number.
2. Go to my Dashboard Champions Circle on Microsoft Teams
3. Use your personal email address or phone number to register. You will need to switch to “personal” mode of teams if prompted.
4. Join the community and find the dataset & dashboard purpose information inside.
5. Start building your dashboard.
6. Submit your entry by 30th April using the instructions in the community.

Contest Dataset & Dashboard Purpose:

Please download the Awesome Chocolates Dataset using the link inside the teams community.

JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE.

The purpose of the dashboard is to inform the CEO of Awesome Chocolates about the performance of our business in the last 13 months. The dataset contains daily shipment data from 2023 February to 2024 February. Here are a few things our CEO is interested in, but she likes surprises too. So get creative.

• How sales, units, shipments, profit, profit%, low-box shipments (shipments with box count under 50) trends are looking
• A detailed performance understanding at product or salesperson level
• Interesting patterns in product / geography data
• Ability to drill down to details if needed.

You are encouraged to use various powerful interactive features of Power BI like tooltips, bookmarks, DAX, conditional formatting, pictures and anything else you might fancy. Again, get creative and showcase what you can build, but stick to one standard sized Power BI page.

When is the deadline?

You should submit your Power BI dashboard by  30th of April, 2024 (end of day, pacific time).

Remember, only one dashboard per person.

How to submit my entry?

Please submit your dashboard using the instructions inside my exclusive teams community. 

For more information and guidelines, visit the Awesome Dashboard community page.

About the prizes and winner selection:

The total prize money for this competition is $500.

• First prize: $250 Amazon Gift Card
• Second prize: $150 Amazon Gift Card
• Third prize: $100 Amazon Gift Card
• Don’t forget the bragging rights!

A panel of Power BI experts and dashboard pros will select the winners. I will share the details later on the teams community.

All the best 🙂

Note: This competition is powered by Microsoft Teams