@Greg Good report and great explanation of what you have done in the report. I like the PDF export concept in the report too. I was wondering how you did you calculate the Next Optician for a particular patient.
Are next optician was selected randomly or you used/assumed a particular concept behind this?
Thanks.
I just made an assumption.
Wow
Some incredible submissions so far.
Looking forward to getting into my development today.
Below is my submission as Newcomer.
The main goal is to track patientās appointments.
Wow this is good
WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!
We are seriously lifting the bar some amazing entries and techniques on display.
Great to see you guys have given me the easy task of having to pick a winner from this lot 
No but seriously some amazing entries and great to see some new faces joining in.
Iām looking forward to reviewing your submissions and sharing some feedback with you.
Any one sat on the fence, there is still time to join in so get involved you wont regret it.
P.S Some great prizes on offer for the new entrants category be sure to check out the post below.
Thanks All
Haroon
I like the way you structured your report, and showed all of the data that was required. One area I would suggest to improve on is the color theme. This is one thing, even if you are a newbie to Power BI , can help take you to the next level! First of all, I will proclaim that Iām color blind, and without the help of additional tools my report color schemes would be awful. You have a great image in the top left corner of the report. Use this to your advantage, and create your color scheme off this. Here are step by step instructions to help create this.
I also use this website as well to compare:
** All you do is upload your image, and here is what it came back with**
** If you want to take these colors a step farther and create your own JSON theme, go to this site and enter all of the HEX codes: https://themes.powerbi.tips/
Selecting a color scheme is very first thing I do when Iām creating reports. Nothing beats a great first impression!
Cheers!
Jarrett
#NewToPowerBI.
My Submission to this challenge 5. Tried to create a simple Dashboard with Key information.
Screen1: All Key info about Patient including Upcoming and historical Appointments.
Screen2:
Appoinment Details including overdue appointments and upcoming appointments for effective planning.
Any constructive feedbacks are welcome. #LearningFromEveryone.
@JarrettM
Thank you very much for your input and feedback. I am learning a lot with the challenges and valuable feedback from others. This will really help me for next my challenges.
Thank you very much! I have to say, first time on the community, Iām blown away by peoples designs. The standard is amazing.
Sam
You raise an awesome and very important point here that I think is relevant to the vast majority of us here on the forum. The eDNA content does SUCH a good job on DAX training, that for almost all of us thatās our comfort zone.
However, @nick_m and @melissa have both said something to the effect of (and Iām grossly oversimplifying here) āif something can be done upfront in Power Query, it probably should beā. This was a huge revelation to me, but as Iāve tried to implement it more and more over the past few months rather than just jumping right into DAX, Iāve come to realize that in many/most cases, it is the best approach both from a performance standpoint and also in terms of making your DAX much simpler and easier for others to understand.
Toward that end, I canāt recommend @melissaās Enterprise DNA TV YouTube Videos highly enough. By working through these in detail (often multiple views per video) and forcing myself in my own work not to jump immediately into back DAX when I struggle with PQ, Iāve started to gain a much more balanced skill set that has been enormously beneficial. Itās hard work at times, but also really rewarding because, while totally different in structure and operation from DAX, M code is incredibly interesting and powerful in its own right.
So, you are spot on in thinking about DAX as just one force among many.
Yep, SQL > PQ > DAX whenever possible.
Once again I look at these and fail to see how they help us to get any better.
I look at the submissions and figure why am I doing this Iām not a graphic artist or a design person.
Itās intimidating at best to us out there that donāt have any design/artistic abilities. What is wrong with a couple of charts and a couple of tables to get the point across.
Sorry but just my feeling on this.
Guy
@GuyJohnson It is all about Data Story telling, if your end user can get the idea of what you are showing them in first 10 seconds of seeing the dashboard then your end goal is achieved. You donāt need to decorate a dashboard to make it look good, only few elements related to the data and boom you have a great report, for example someone above used glasses and without even looking at the data I know this report is somehow related to eyes.
Without debating the relative merits of the various design elements (or anything other than basic design elements at all), I would say if you donāt find the design aspect relevant for you and your work, just ignore it and focus on the incredible range of PQ, DAX and visualization techniques exhibited across the range of the submissions. These techniques are extremely versatile and can be applied across a wide range of problems, industries, etc.
I can say for certain that Iāve gotten significantly better in a number of areas by participating in these challenges and learning from the entries submitted and the subsequent write ups/discussions, and find it very hard to imagine that wouldnāt be true for everyone, although individually our takeaways will be different.
@GuyJohnson Donāt forget that its all about your audience, and what they expect. If the āreportā will be client-facing or executive-facing, then theyāre (often) used to high-quality presentations/graphics. One has more latitude when developing for internal audiences, but Iāve personally had many (consulting, granted) instances where a blocking āmustā is something like:
> ā¦ if the layout and formatting are not consistent and ideal, how can I trust the data? ā¦
So, for good or bad, the audience rules ā¦ whatever they need to have confidence in their analysis/decisions, and each organization/report series will have their own design criteria.
Greg
The truth is that time pressure always puts me back in my comfort zone. Although I canāt solve problems with DAX like a walk in the park I know where to look for resources that can help me to get to a solution within a certain time. On the other hand I canāt find so many resources on M code. Well there are resources, but the amount of DAX resources seems much larger to me. Maybe I have to improve the way I searchā¦ I donāt know for sure.
I will certainly look at @melissaās Enterprise DNA TV YouTube Videos. Thanks!
Daniel
Youāre spot on about the gap between the quality and quantity of M versus DAX resources (at least until we can finally convince @Melissa to write āThe Definitive Guide to Māā¦). in the interim, we have put together the following resource list, which is the best of what we found out there, but encourage everyone to add to this list as you find other good resources:
In addition, you may find this video helpful in terms of M practice strategies and tools:
https://forum.enterprisedna.co/t/five-strategies-to-enhance-your-dax-in-power-bi/8998/2
