🏆 Power BI DataViz World Championships | Week 2 Challenge 🌎

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Post updated: 21 Feb 2025

 

Welcome to week 2 of the qualifying rounds for the Power BI DataViz World Championships! Read on to learn what the featured data is for the week, the requirements for your build, and how to submit.

 

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How the competition works

The Power BI Data Visualization World Championships consists of four qualifying rounds over four weeks, where you’ll submit your best Power BI visualizations for a designated theme. Each week, one winner is selected, and the four finalists will compete live at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. The grand finale will feature a head-to-head showdown on stage, with the winner earning the prestigious title of World Champion!

The winner of each week will win a conference package to the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas!

Please see our FAQs for more information.

Data ✈️🚢

This week we're looking for your best viz submissions about 🌎 travel ✈️! We invite you to explore the world of travel through data. Whether it's discovering popular destinations, tracking travel trends, sharing cultural experiences, or highlighting favorite activities (food!), the possibilities are endless. Use your creativity to find interesting data and create visualizations that tell the story of travel. Show us how data can reveal where people go, what they experience, and how travel shapes our lives.

If you’re struggling to think of what kinds of data to use, here are a few that you can either use or use as inspiration:

• Capital Bikeshare System Data: This dataset contains data over many years on bikeshare rides in Washington, D.C. This is one of my favorite datasets of all time and a big part of how I learned Power BI!
• Department of Transportation - Open Data Portal: This portal offers public data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, including various travel-related datasets.
• Traveler Trip Dataset - Kaggle: This dataset on Kaggle provides detailed information on various trips, including travel patterns and trends.
  
• Open Travel Data (OPTD): This GitHub repository provides a collection of transport, travel, and leisure-related data. This repo isn't completely current, but it does appear to contain years of data!

Requirements

Entries will be judged based on whether the requirements listed below have been met.

 

Get and transform data

• Source your own dataset related to this week’s theme, travel.

• Your dataset must be cited in your submitted report, in a manner that is easy to find for readers.

• Use Power BI to import and transform your data as needed. Ensure your dataset is clean and ready for visualization.

• You’re welcome to create complex functions and do great work in Power Query and DAX, but note that this work will not be explicitly scored. Judges will only see the front-end of the Power BI report.

Create visuals

• You must use at least one Power BI core visual in your report.

• Create engaging visuals. See the judging criteria below for guidance on what we’re looking for.

• Ensure all visuals meet accessibility standards, including alt text, logical tab order, and appropriate color contrast.

Judging criteria

Submissions will be scored by a panel of judges out of 30 points based on the following:

1. Insightfulness (10 points)

• Clarity of Insights (1-5 points): How clearly does the visualization/report convey the insights? Are the key messages easy to understand?

• Relevance of Insights (1-5 points): How relevant are the insights to this week’s theme (Travel)? Do they provide meaningful and valuable information?

2. Visual Effectiveness (10 points)

• Simplicity and Cleanliness (1-3 points): Is the visualization/report simple and clean, avoiding unnecessary clutter? Does it focus on the most important information?

• Effective Use of Text and Color (1-3 points): Are text and color used effectively to enhance understanding? Are the labels, titles, and color schemes appropriate and helpful?

• Appropriateness of Visual Elements (1-4 points): Are the chosen visual elements (charts, graphs, etc.) appropriate for the data being presented? Do they effectively communicate the insights?

3. Accessibility (10 points)

• Tab Order (1-3 points): Is the tab order logical and intuitive for users navigating with a keyboard?

• Alt Text (1-3 points): Are alt texts provided for all visual elements to ensure accessibility for screen readers?

• Color Contrast (1-4 points): Does the visualization meet minimum color contrast standards to ensure readability for all users?

How to submit

• You must be a member of the community to submit.

• You do not need to have a Fabric or Power BI tenant to submit. You can create your report entirely in Power BI desktop.
• Navigate to the Contests Gallery and either submit a Publish to Web URL or submit a .pbix file. 
• ***Important*** - please use "Week 2" as the first part of the title of your entry. Example: "Week 2 - Shannon's Favorite Travel Spots"

Ask questions

We want to help you! If you can't find the answer to your question in our FAQs, please add a comment to this post and we'll get back to you as soon as we're able!