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Jun 24Liked by Erik Davis

Ah, NOW I understand! This was good. As a former junior staff officer, and current cog, I felt triggered at the attack on my faithful PowerPoint! But now I feel liberated. I’ll bookmark this post and return to it whenever I feel myself starting to slip back into the comfortable ignorance of proudly displaying dead and an uncorrelated data.

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Jun 23Liked by Erik Davis

What do you think about PowerBI dashboards that update automatically and can accept comments saved to a SharePoint site?

It seems like a technique to wean staffs that have many subordinate units contributing to the same brief off PowerPoint.

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PowerBI is a great transition step to help people cross the bridge to being data driven. I'll talk more about the need for just such bridges in the coming weeks. It's about shifting the focus from presenting information to engaging with and interacting with data.

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