Using technology, the young man had the help of his girlfriend, friends and family to catalog the more than 700 carnival blocks in the capitals; The objective was to create a map to make it easier for people to search for the events that most interest them.
São Paulo, February 10, 2023 – After the period of isolation, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, carnival is happening again normally in Brazil and street blocks are again being held in several cities across the country. With the return of the revelry, people want to be aware of the events that take place to choose the options that most please them. For that, Wendela Sara (28), a final-year economics student at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), created, with the help of her girlfriend, family and friends, two interactive maps with information about street blocks in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo using Microsoft’s Power BI. The company’s solution works by connecting data sources, hosted on a server or in the cloud, to provide a dashboard with business intelligence tools for users, making it more intuitive and interactive.
According to the young woman, the intention is to facilitate the consultation of events available in both cities and, for that, she created a map with the location of all the blocks, divided by name, date, area of the city and musical style. “The idea came up in a conversation with a friend, in which we thought of doing something more fun and making it easier to find where and when each block comes out. The result turned out to be bigger than we expected and we decided to make it available to everyone who wants to access it, ”she explains.
Wendela says that, despite not working with coding or studying anything related, she was always curious to use tools that make everyday life easier, whether at work or for fun. “What I did was consult the blocks in the Official Gazette and insert the information into Power BI, which automatically compiled the data and categorized them. A friend helped us with the layout, but it was all so easy and fun to do,” she says.
The student, who is from São Paulo and has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 2015 due to college, says that the creation of the interactive map is a gift to the city of Rio de Janeiro, which has welcomed her so well over the last 8 years. Access to the map, with more than 400 blocks of Rio and 300 of São Paulo, can be done in this link that the student also made available on her profile on a social network.
“Our maps are gaining repercussions and we want more people to have access and this will help people organize themselves to enjoy Carnival in the blocks they like the most”, he celebrates.
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The low-code and no-code initiatives, with little or no code in Portuguese, aim to allow people who are not technical in technology to create solutions and applications according to their needs. “We want everyone to be able to use Microsoft tools to solve challenges, just by clicking and dragging components on the screen, without the need for code or programming knowledge. Wendela’s case is a great example of how people can use the solution’s resources for any activity, even to make the search for carnival blocks more fun and interactive”, says Marcondes Farias, diproduct manager for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform at Microsoft Brazil.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation in the era of the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The company has been in Brazil for 33 years and is one of the subsidiaries of Microsoft Corporation, founded in 1975, which is present in over 190 countries. In 2020, the company invested more than US$ 13 million taking technology free of charge to 1,765 NGOs in Brazil, benefiting several social projects. Since 2011, Microsoft has supported more than 7,500 startups in Brazil through donations of more than $202 million in cloud credits.