Metadata
- Author: Mataroa
- Full Title:: PowerBI Is a Human Rights Violation
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Culture, 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)
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)