🏆 Announcing the winners of the Notebooks for Power BI contest!

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We’re excited to share the winners of the first-ever Fabric Notebooks for Power BI Contest! The challenge for participants was to: 

Build a notebook in Power BI that solves a problem, tells a story, or teaches others something useful. Submit it to the Power BI Notebook Gallery and make sure it includes:

• A clear description of your notebook’s purpose and scenario

• An image or GIF that shows the notebook in action

• The actual notebook code (Python or PySpark)

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry, voted, and supported the community. Here are the results:

🏆 Best Overall – Highest combined score

• Simplified Model Refresh Using Notebook Application by Jai Rathinavel

🔥 Most Impactful – Top score in Usefulness & Impact

• Portable Power BI Dashboard Templates with Fabric Notebooks by Marcus Wegener

🪄 Most Innovative – Top score in Creativity & Innovation

• Automatically populate Data Agents with Semantic Model Synonyms by Marc Lelijveld

👏🏼 Most Popular – Most community likes

• End-to-end Machine Learning with Microsoft Fabric by Sahir Maharaj
• Fabric Report Resilience: A Scalable Disaster Recovery Notebook by Nandan Hegde

💛 Judges Favorites

It was too challenging to limit what we loved to the winners above! Check out these fantastic notebooks that deserve recognition!

• DAX Performance Testing by Justin Martin
• Semantic Model Audit by Justin Martin
• Fabric Workspace "Sync from Git" Accelerator by Asger Biehl
• Optimize your Power BI Report with Model Best Practice Analyzer and Vertipaq Analyzer by Musili Adebayo
• How to Use Semantic Link Labs in Microsoft Fabric Notebook (Python Demo Walkthrough) by Musili Adebayo

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks again to the community for your creativity and support!