The results of last month’s Power BI Global Hackathon are in! The Hackathon was facilitated by our our PUG here in Portland with the goal of welcoming global contenders in subsequent contest. Five teams entered the contest using publically-available data to visualize and tell data stories using our favorite data analysis platform. Congratulations to Xinyu Zheng and Ron Barrett for winning the challenge with their entry, analyzing Yelp restaurant star ratings. These were all great entries and you can view the contest results in the Power BI report below.
Here are the published projects that were entered in the Hackathon:
Xinyu and Ron analyzed ratings from nearly 1200 restaurant Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Results compare ratings and reviews by restaurant and food categories, sentiment and key phrases in the review comments
I loved the creativity of this solution from Jeremy Black and Kirill Perian who analyzed alcohol sales statistics using infographics and bookmarks to switch out visuals on the same page. The presentation concludes on the last page of the report with an auto-advancing variation of “100 Bottles of Beer on The Wall”. Nice touch.
I’m admittedly a bit biased because this was my design, with a lot of help from Brian, Ron and Greg. We used a series of tables to prompt a user for Power BI solution business requirements and recommend fitting solution architectures and components. We pushed some practical and technical limits in our project and I’ll write a separate post about it.
This entry from Ron Ellis Gaut is a nice, clean orchestration of county health data, measuring health and comparing personal well-being and program efficacy.
The entry from Daniel Claborne emphasizes machine learning predictions performed with R Script, commonly used in data science. He actually includes the annotated code and explains the technique and the approach using training and prediction data sets.
The Portland Power BI User Group was one of the first and continues to be one of the most active in the international community. We meet on the 4th Wednesday evening every month in Beaverton, Oregon. Today there are many active PUGs all over the world.
“Your words have a way of painting vivid pictures. Love it!”
The Power BI Global Hackathon Contest showcased the immense talent and creativity of participants from around the world. The competition not only highlighted the power of Power BI as a data visualization tool but also demonstrated the innovative ways in which it can be utilized across industries. The results of the contest were truly remarkable, with participants delivering impressive solutions that leveraged the capabilities of Power BI to drive insights and make informed decisions. It was a testament to the global community’s ability to harness data and transform it into actionable intelligence.