She stared at the thirteen Excel tabs blinking on her screen. Sales data from Singapore. Logistics from Leipzig. Customer sentiment from a survey sent to 40,000 people, which had come back as 40,000 individual CSV files. Her boss, Marcus, wanted a unified dashboard by Friday. “Make it sing, Clara,” he had said.
Clara Vance had survived Y2K, the rise of social media, and three separate corporate mergers. But nothing had prepared her for the quarterly report of October 2020. She stared at the thirteen Excel tabs blinking on her screen
She loaded her thirteen Excel files. Power BI didn’t flinch. Customer sentiment from a survey sent to 40,000
“This is Power BI,” she said.
By Chapter 6, Clara had forgotten what sleep felt like. Dan introduced the —a palette of stacked bars, line charts, maps, and cards. Clara Vance had survived Y2K, the rise of
Clara smiled. She thought of Dan, the cheerful Australian. She thought of the 2020 edition, with its updated DAX functions and the new “Decomposition Tree” visual she hadn’t even tried yet.
“You’re not making charts. You’re making decisions visible.”