She loaded her thirteen Excel files. Power BI didn’t flinch.
By December, Clara was no longer the “Excel girl.” She was the company’s first Power BI champion. The 2020 edition course sat bookmarked in her browser, a time capsule of a year when the world felt messy and disconnected. But in that mess, she had learned to build bridges between tables, between teams, between data and meaning. She loaded her thirteen Excel files
“Click ‘Transform Data,’” he said. “Now, right-click the ‘Sales Date’ column. Change the type to ‘Date.’ See that? You just saved yourself three hours.” The 2020 edition course sat bookmarked in her
“This is Power BI,” she said.
Clara opened Microsoft Teams. She shared her screen. “Now, right-click the ‘Sales Date’ column
She added a filter so Marcus could click on any country and see store-level data instantly. She set the theme to “Corporate Teal” (naturally). She published the report to the Power BI Service —the cloud—using her work account.
Clara dragged the “Profit Margin” measure onto a . The needle swung to 23%. She added a Slicer for “Region.” Then a Matrix for monthly trends. The screen began to pulse with color. A Map visual bloomed with bubbles over Berlin, Tokyo, and São Paulo.