Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Enhance your career with this limited time 50% discount on Fabric and Power BI exams. Ends September 15. Request your voucher.

Reply
QQ
Frequent Visitor

Create a survey in Power BI

Hi, 

 

Got a question from a co-worker whether we can use Power BI to collect survey data. I would like to say 'no' to make my life easier and also I do not think that would be Power BI's strength. However I remember the 'Just for fun' winner of 2017 MS data challenge, created by Kane O'Donnell. That Power BI report captures what people choose and show in the visual right away. 

 

If anyone knows or have any guess on how Kane's report was developed, would you please help to give a brief description on it? Very curious how can the data model take in data.

 

Thank you so much!

 

 

 

2 REPLIES 2
Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

If I had to guess, there is a custom visual involved there that is presenting the word clouds and keeping track of your score. That means some pretty heavy coding. 

 

This is not the use case for Power BI, I would look at Microsoft Forms.



Follow on LinkedIn
@ me in replies or I'll lose your thread!!!
Instead of a Kudo, please vote for this idea
Become an expert!: Enterprise DNA
External Tools: MSHGQM
YouTube Channel!: Microsoft Hates Greg
Latest book!:
DAX For Humans

DAX is easy, CALCULATE makes DAX hard...

Thanks a lot smoupre!

 

Sorry for my late reponse! Stuck in some urgent stuff since then.

 

I am about to learn on developing custom visuals. However my coding experiences have been limited to VBA coding. Would you please suggest some starting material/tutorial so I can start learning?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Helpful resources

Announcements
August Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - August 2025

Check out the August 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

August 2025 community update carousel

Fabric Community Update - August 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.