London based business intelligence consultant Narius Patel’s submission for the competition run by Microsoft to promote the use of their Business Intelligence tool Power BI to support data driven journalism was rated an "excellent co-finalist” at the results declared on February 14, 2018. The organizers received 37 entries for the 2017 Power BI "Year in Review” data storytelling contest.
Patel’s data story "Missing migrants — Tracking Deaths Along Migratory Routes,” showed migrant deaths along the United States and Mexico border. "Migrants risk life and wealth at the hands of human traffickers to escape war or for a better life in......