“Make it interactive,” Dan said. “Let them click. Let them discover.”
He was silent for a long time. Then: “I want this for every department. HR. Finance. The cafeteria. I want to know how many pickles we use per quarter.” “Make it interactive,” Dan said
The first slide wasn’t a slide. It was the —a clean, dark-mode canvas with three large buttons. Marcus leaned forward. Then: “I want this for every department
Dan’s first lesson was revolutionary: Stop cleaning data before you import it. Clara had spent years deleting blank rows and fixing date formats manually. Dan taught her to use . The cafeteria
The teal dashboard glowed on her screen. The story was clear. And for the first time in a long time, Clara Vance was ready for the next merger.
She stared at the thirteen Excel tabs blinking on her screen. Sales data from Singapore. Logistics from Leipzig. Customer sentiment from a survey sent to 40,000 people, which had come back as 40,000 individual CSV files. Her boss, Marcus, wanted a unified dashboard by Friday. “Make it sing, Clara,” he had said.
Clara didn’t want to make it sing. She wanted to set it on fire.
