Post Updated: 16 Sep 2025

🚀 Fabric Notebooks for Power BI

The Fabric Notebooks for Power BI contest is now complete! Please congratulate our winners  and check out all of the entries!

Do you have a great idea for how to use notebooks in Power BI? Whether you're a data scientist, analyst, or just love building cool stuff, now’s your chance to show it off.

We’re launching the first-ever Fabric Notebooks for Power BI Contest - a community contest designed to celebrate creativity, drive real-world impact, and grow the Notebooks Gallery with reusable, insightful examples.

🧠 The challenge

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)

🔒 Reminder: don’t include sensitive or private data.

 

💡 Looking for inspiration?

Want to get a feel for what makes a great entry? Browse the Power BI Notebooks Gallery to see what others have shared. Use these as starting points, or take them in entirely new directions. Just make sure your submission brings something fresh and helpful to the community.

📅 Timeline

• Entry period: August 4 – August 29

• Voting period: opens when entries come in, closes September 3

• Judging period: September 4 – September 12

• Winners announced at FabCon Vienna (stay tuned for session details!)
  
  

✅ Requirements to participate

• You must use your own Fabric capacity (trial or paid).

• Your workspace must be backed by Fabric capacity and you must have Contributor or higher permissions.

• If your notebook connects to a semantic model, you need Build permission on that model.

• You can can use Python or PySpark. The only difference is Python is currently in Preview for notebooks and PySpark is Generally Available.

• Make sure your semantic model’s name doesn’t end with a space, or it might not work.

• You can enter as many notebooks as you’d like!
  
  

📥 How to submit

 

To enter, publish your notebook to the Power BI Notebooks Gallery during the contest period (Aug 4–29). Make sure your post includes:

• A title and description that explain your notebook’s purpose
• An image or GIF of the notebook in action
• The full notebook code in a downloadable attachment or copy-pasteable format
  
  

If you submit multiple entries, each one will be judged individually.

 

🧪 Judging criteria

Each notebook will be judged across four areas:

• Usefulness & Impact (25%): Does it solve a real problem or support decision-making?
• Creativity & Innovation (25%): Is it unique, surprising, or clever?
• Popularity (25%): Likes, comments, and community engagement
• Reusability & Clarity (25%): Is the code clean, commented, and easy to reuse? Does the description and GIF clearly show what it does?

🏆 Awards

We’ll be naming multiple winners:

• Best Overall – Highest combined score

• Most Impactful – Top score in Usefulness & Impact

• Most Innovative – Top score in Creativity & Innovation

• Most Popular – Most community likes

🏅 Winners receive featured placement in the gallery and swag!

👩‍⚖️ Meet the judges

• Nikita Takru

• Emily Lisa

• Ruixin Xu

• Deepa Rajagopal

• Michael Kovalsky

Let’s grow the gallery together and show the power of Notebooks in Power BI. We can’t wait to see what you create!

👉 Submit your entry now