With inspiration from many DataViz blogs, especially from Story Telling With Data and DataDuo, I thought to start #LondonPUGDataViz. Mainly to encourage interactivity of our User Group. Its been almost two years since we began our User Group, our next event is the Second Anniversary. Since we started, we followed the same format so that this new activity will be something exciting :).
Many of our attendees come to us saying how the Power BI User Group helped them. I am hoping this new activity will help them more. At our last event, many of our User group attendees were excited about this new challenge. So, the plan is every month we come up with an open dataset, and we ask our attendees to create something using Power BI. There are no limitations; Creativity is the limit!
At every event, we dedicate 30 min to showcase these reports. Recently I watched a video related to photography, where they mentioned how working in a group could help each other with the creativity angle. You will be surprised to see how different people shoot the same place with different perspectives and how that perspective entirely transforms the story behind the picture. In the same way, we are hoping this activity will encourage us to learn from each other with their different perspectives of storytelling.
People who know me in person knows that I like painting, maybe because of that, for the very first LondonPUGDataViz, I’ve gone for Bob Ross Paining data set. I promise we go for a more sensible dataset for the next one. Not only because it is related to painting, but it is a small, simple csv. Something simple to start!
I am really hoping people get involved, if anyone out there wants to get involved, here is the dataset – http://bit.ly/LondonPugChallenge1 . I will write a blog post with all submissions, at least there will be mine, and I have few friends whom I am going to push to create some reports 😉
Till next time,
Prathy 🙂
