Power BI Challenge 8 - Wrap Up!

OK, got a bit to say about this one. The first order of business is hearty congratulations to @Greg. Your reports and write ups are always masterful, and this one was all that and more. I was up half the night last night making final enhancements to a critical work report, and many of those improvements were things I’ve learned from following your entries and explanations, so thank you and congratulations on a well-earned win!

Second thing is my sympathy to @haroonali1000 for having to make any decision among an absolute murderers row of incredible entries. As I was watching the submissions flow in this weekend, one spectacular one after another, I thought how difficult judging these entries has become as the quality, innovation and execution has continued to rise challenge after challenge.

Third, a huge thanks and kudos to everyone who participated. While Haroon and others have rightly recognized a number of other incredible submissions, the quality across the board is amazing. I have been a loud, persistent advocate within my agency for how Power BI can absolutely revolutionize our business operations, and so to demonstrate that submitted this dataset on behalf of a client within the organization (and yes, @bradsmith, that was my choice on the anonymized names :grinning:)… When I suggested it to him, I said you will get to see how 20-30 of the best Power BI developers in the world will absolutely transform this data and draw insights out of it in ways that you can’t imagine. And wow! - you all proved me right beyond even my highest expectations. I can’t wait to show him and the rest of the team what you have done, and know that what you all have done here will have a big impact.

Finally, I would definitely encourage you to think about whether you’ve got a dataset/issue to toss to this ingenious pack of data wolves. These challenges always work better with real-life data, and in return you get back the amazing combined thought of, as @sam.mckay correctly puts it, the #bestPowerBIcommunitybyfar.

– Brian

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