## Metadata - Author: [[mataroa.blog|Mataroa]] - Full Title:: PowerBI Is a Human Rights Violation - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Data culture|Data culture]], [[Ser data driven no es de guapas|Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas]], - URL:: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/powerbi-is-a-human-rights-violation/ - Finished date:: [[2023-11-25]] ## Highlights > In the past three months, this dashboard has a total of 38 views, so give-or-take, one view every three days... and it's ranked number **SIX**? If the sixth most-viewed dashboard is getting a view every three days *and we know most of them aren't being refreshed* then we have almost *certainly* spent thousands of hours of people's lives, that they could have been spending with their kids or some wholesome bullshit, making *thousands of reports that no one reads*? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hg1mv01s0460zn0j7sc3kaw1)) > You don't want to work at a place that takes PowerBI seriously. I *guess* the tool is fine if stakeholders are self-serving for something important, but anywhere that has teams dedicated to using it is very likely to have a lot of muppets. Any stakeholder that says they don't have time to operate the drag-and-drop tool is either for asking something that isn't important enough to spend time on, or is too dumb to use it themselves, and you don't want to work for either of them." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hg1mz970mymdwxp05tatbgyj))