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
- Participants must use Power BI (any recent version) to create the dashboard.
- The dashboard should be built with native visuals only. No add-ons or marketplace visuals or Python/R visuals.
- The dashboard should contain a readme / help tab to explain the features and methodology.
- Your dashboard should feature the Awesome Chocolates logo, contest title on it. These assets are included in the dataset file below.
- Limit your dashboard to one Power BI Page (readme / help goes on a separate page)
- You are free to combine the business data of Awesome Chocolates with any publicly available datasets. Credit any sources in the readme / help tab.
- 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.
- Your dashboard should be submitted by 30th of April 2024 using the upload instructions (to be added later).
- Participants agree to have their name and any social media handles listed on the contest website.
- 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.
- You need a personal email address (such as @gmail.com or @hotmail.com) or your phone number.
- Go to my Dashboard Champions Circle on Microsoft Teams
- Use your personal email address or phone number to register. You will need to switch to “personal” mode of teams if prompted.
- Join the community and find the dataset & dashboard purpose information inside.
- Start building your dashboard.
- 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.
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
23 Responses to “Learn Top 10 Excel Features”
What it looks like if excel without formula?? 🙂
It would be not excel it would just be fancy tables in which you could just use power point. (Chandoo) would Access be an alternative?
Awesome piece of work!!!
Great article.
Chandoo - my biggest interest in the article was the awesome word-graphic at the top - where did you go to get it done into a shape?
@Rich.. thank you. I used http://www.tagxedo.com/ to generate this word cloud. I took all the comments in the original post, pasted them in tagxedo website and set up the shape etc.
Awesome Chandoo.. You need always needs coffee to start up with. BTW , how did u created the Heart Shaped picture filled with High Repetitive text in it .. Please put it on your Next blog ...
Chandoo, good article. I’ve added a link to it from Connexion – our collection of the most useful and interesting spreadsheet-related articles from the web. See http://www.i-nth.com/resources/connexion
Hi,
Just one small question. Where the hell have been I in the past for not discovering this website sooner?
I've lost a job interview recently where even though I had the subject knowledge, I was not upto their mark in Excel.
Thank you for all the free tips, guidance and for creating this forum environment.
[PS: I've just been through the site for the 1st time, and have signed up for the newsletter. You can expect pretty stupid questions from me soon]
Hy Chandoo, you always inspire me with to explore something new in excel. This data structure table is only for excel 2007 or compatible to 2010. I recently installed latest excel version 2013 in my System and experience problems regarding operating according to previous one. I'm waiting your article relates to that excel version.
Thanks
Awesome article Mr. Chandoo and that is a awesome heart shaped pic you created. Great tips as well.
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Chandoo is awesome..
Thanks, i got better, And i always get 90.50 in my grade card but now i get 96.50 i improved because of the tutorials you gave, Thank You Very Much Chandoo Guy.
Hi chandoo, i am intersted in seeing the video or step by step done procedure of analysing the comments and presenting in the data percentage steps. I think this one would be first step in finding out how generally happens data calculation. Thank you.
As well i would like to know how to get that black shape art of your face which i see in chandoo. I am interested in making it for me.
Nice to see the features considered by Excel users to be most useful. It might be a good idea to also analyze StackOverflow Excel questions to see what keywords appear most often.
Here are my top 10 Excel Features (for advanced users):
http://www.analystcave.com/excel-10-top-excel-features/
Thanks a ton for this it totally helped with my homework ????
Very good effort
Thank you for this. Lots of learning in the links you've provided for this septuagenarian.
Pls send me new post
Dude, your humor ? ?
Loved your work.
Hello Sir,
I am Sanjeev Khakre and i from Indore City, India , I am your big follower and i have watch your videos and learnt a lots of excel trick or function and many more . thanks so much for all of your excellent support.
Your excel knowledge is real awesome.
Thanks
Sanjeev
Your work is excellent but pls willing to know more details about the features of microsoft excel
Chandoo Would Access be a better alternative than VB?