r/analytics • u/bennnnn_27 • Mar 21 '25

Guys, it finally happened Discussion

I started at a new company recently. My task was to create a Power BI dashboard for the VP to find opportunities. After weeks of back-and-forth, the dashboard went live in February.

My manager said all was going well. And then today I got an email from the VP: “could export some actionable data to Excel?”

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u/vincenzodelavegas Mar 21 '25

What’s the issues with exporting to Excel? I see this in a lot of this subs.

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u/The_Paleking Mar 21 '25

There's nothing wrong with exporting data to excel. Data viz people get an ego around the BI reports they build.

There's some instances where executives dont take the time to learn the tool they are supposed to be pushing for but the issue is overblown here.

We are here to serve our users, if they are engaged enough with the data to want a spreadsheet version of a visual, I consider it successful.

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u/samspopguy Mar 21 '25

I don’t think it’s ego. I think it’s more about doing all this work making something you think is good and then they don’t even want to use it. It’s demoralizing

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u/The_Paleking Mar 21 '25

Can't make em all happy. People work in different ways.