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Light-hearted discussion about Excel and Power BI - aimed at the business users of the world

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    Schrödinger's Toilet

    QOTW: What Personal Projects have use built with Excel or Power BI   Other nonsense: 🖥️🖥️🖥️ How many MONITORS is too many? 👰🏻‍♀️💍Weddings! 👮🏻🎶 Theme Tune Copyright Violation 🐿️ Is AI diverting us to lower priority activity? 🆑Power BI Bookmark Bliss with Claude Code? 🎼🎸Macro Chords 🐕Pomeranian Technique 🚽Schrodinger's Toilet   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  2. 52

    Rob Collie

    Special Guest Rob Collie New Book:   Fair Game 🟢 Working on the Excel Team 📖 The Original Power Pivot Book 🚿 Fawcett First 🤖 Customising AI 📖 Rob's new book: FAIR GAME 🧐 Hoity Toity Agentic Agents   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

  3. 51

    Where do you start with AI?

    QOTW: Where Do You Start with AI? Special Guest Fay Bordbar Other nonsense: 🏄🏻‍♂️ Mark's away and we've got Fay 🐟 Start Small and Snowball 🎯 You're Not as Far Behind as You Think 💰 The Hidden Cost of AI ( burnt dinners? ) 🧠 Data Literacy Before AI Hype 🤖 Agents, Copilot and Automation ⚠️ The Promise and Risk of Vibe Coding 📊 AI for Finance and Budgeting 🔍 Semantic Models and Business Context 🛠️ VS Code, GitHub Copilot and MCP Servers   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  4. 50

    Success and f-ai-lure

    QOTW: What does success look like on Excel and Power BI projects? Other nonsense: 🎉 Hitting 1,000 YouTube subscribers  Mark's break dancing outfit 🍻 Lithuania trip and alcohol consumption facts 🏷️ Excel name tag fail at a spreadsheet event ⚽ World Cup Permissions 🕵️ Fraud and impersonation targeting content creators 📋 Custom skills in Excel Copilot 💸 Microsoft's confusing Copilot credit pricing (CCCUs) 🪓Prompting in Mandarin to save tokens 🤖 AI auditability and safety concerns 🐹 Lemmings nostalgia ❓ Fabric's SharePoint-to-Delta-table feature 🎂 Two years of the podcast 🤫 Mystery guest teased for next episode   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    Cowork Credits - AI costs hit home

    Special Guest : Deb Ashby TIKTOK QOTW:  What is Cowork and Credits? Plus, we go off on tangents (as usual) 🎥 Camtasia tips 💡 Solving long-standing problems 🛍️ Ultimate goodie bags 😧 Forgetting you already did it… 10 months ago! ⏰ All managers wait until 5PM 🚐 Excel NOT On The Road 🔥 Burning tokens 😨 Tech company FOMO   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  6. 48

    AI Reality and New Project Tips

    QOTW:  What are the first things you do on a new project? Plus, the usual banter: 🤖 Copilot, Fable and real-world experience 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️Dartmoor Run 📺TV Recommendation - Man on Fire TV Series ( Netflix ) 📗Book Recommendation https://markjdawson.com/books/john-milton-series/ 😴🥱 Value-gate, the pod's worst discussion since Wire-gate ( sorted numbers totalling differently ) 🐏Chopped Mutton? https://tableandspoon.com/why-do-people-use-the-phrase-chopped-liver/  🗣️ Welsh / Australian / South African ? 📷Camera Fail   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  7. 47

    Global Excel Summit Review

    🗣️🔥The Excel  v Power BI debate re-ignites! QOTW:  How was the Global Excel Summit? Plus, the usual banter: 🕺🏻Giles learns some moves 📏How tall was Wyn? 🍫🐧 Tim Tams vs Penguins 🚨Hotel Alarms 🍳Is 3 breakfasts in a day too many? 🎤Mark's Magic Mic trick 🙎🏻‍♀️ Is Julie truly that unruly? 🎵We'll meet again...   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  8. 46

    Learned too late

    🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  QOTW:  What’s the thing that took you the longest to understand?   Plus, the usual banter: 🏃‍♀️ Marathons x 2 🏫 Global Excel Summit 🗣️ Greeting strangers at conferences 😮 Dragging & clicking the formula tooltip 🖱️ Click tax 🥱 Nobody cares how you built it …(and definitely nobody cares about instructions) 🚀 JFK’s moon goal wasn’t ambitious enough 🦁 Excel people are solo animals 🐧🍫 Tim Tams vs Penguins     Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  9. 45

    We're Doomed!

    🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  QOTW: Why is Power Query so important? Other Topics 5️⃣0️⃣ Episodes! ✈️🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ Boston Sue is 24537 : https://www.baa.org/b-a-a-mobile-app/ ✈️🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ London Sue is 15315 : https://www.londonmarathonevents.co.uk/london-marathon/tcs-london-marathon-app   🤫🕵🏻 Secret News 🤑💰Why Giles isn't rich 🦹🏻👎🏻Content Theft 😟⬇️Wyn's AI Downer The Alibaba Incident  The Mythos escape  ⚰️🪦Excel is Dead - again 🔂🔂 LinkedIn 3W Reposting 🧑🏻‍✈️💲Copilot Cost in Power BI Ⓜ️📉Dataflow Deprecation? 🕒🤬Wait before ranting?   Folks to follow Anne Walsh  Bill Jelen  Geoff Robinson  Kevin Lehrbass  Jessica S  Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  10. 44

    Sloppelgangers

    💖 Link for Sue's fundraiser  🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  QOTW: Q1 Review - did we achieve our goals? Other Topics ⏱️Tardy Giles 👟Super Shoes 🤦🏻‍♂️Mistakes bring us joy 🧢Merch!  🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼Sloppelgangers 🚗Driving Instructor Respect ✈️The Fighter Pilot Fallacy 🪟Frameworks   Folks to follow Zoe Douglas  Laura Graham- Brown  Richard Sumner  Craig Hatmaker    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  11. 43

    100% Accurate v Directionally Correct

    QOTW: Should the focus be on 100% accuracy or directionally correct reports? Other Discussions 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️Running until June 🚙Gile's has never filled up with gas before! 🪙Do CFO's actually care about AI? 📈Mark and Giles get worried about the Power BI v Excel debate ⏩Is not keeping up actually a life hack 🤖Claude Code back story https://youtu.be/PQU9o_5rHC4 Folks to follow Chris Webb - https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/ George Mount -  https://stringfestanalytics.com/ Karen Abecia - https://karenabecia.github.io/dashboards/ Eugene Meidinger - https://www.sqlgene.com/   🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  12. 42

    Life Hacks, Agents and Licencing

    Topic of the Week with pop-up guest Fay Bordbar:   What are Copilot Agents? Other Discussions 📡Giles StarLink success & falling back into the LinkedIn rant-wagon 💰For who the Road Tolls - it's Mark! 🌳ChatGPT shows its caring side to Sue and she finds 100GB of Storage to free up 📷Wyn's webcam fail Folks to follow: Chandeep Chhabra Fay Bordbar David Kofod Hanna Damian Bird 🔗Other Links Mentioned Tree Size:  RefTree Analyzer ( mistakenly referenced, but great tool! ):  LinkedIn Rant     🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  13. 41

    AI Tipping Point and Do You Struggle to Learn?

    Question of the Week:   Do you struggle to learn and what tips do you have? Folks to follow: Mike Girvin Kurt Buhler Matt Brattin  Peeraya Apiwat Warning: May Contain Traces of Technical Content 🏊🏻‍♂️Ice Swims 🔥Heated Blankets 💓Is $130 expensive? 🤔Can't even say Ontology 🖨️Do you print anything? ⁉️No QAT?     🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  14. 40

    Learning Limits, Kit Kats, Claude and Compatibility

    Wyn is back with tales of KitKats from Japan, Sue is away bathing in Ice Lakes, Giles is gearing up for life in a Campervan, and Mark is still not happy with =IMPORTCSV Worth a follow: Andy Cutler   Andrew Moss   Hilary Smart    Question of the Week: Can Anyone Learn Excel and Power BI   And then... 🚽 Phantom Toilet seats 🐙 Takoyaki  🚅Trapped on a Train 🚙 Giles on Tour 🔓 Unlocking Spreadsheets 🎣 Not Biting on LinkedIn 🔢 Versions in Excel      Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins Mark Proctor and Giles Male ( absent Sue Bayes  )

  15. 39

    If you could ask any question to the Excel World Champion, what would you ask?

    This week we have special guest Dim Early - the reigning Excel World Champion - who took part in our new feature called “If you could ask any question to the Excel World Champion what would you ask? But since you’re not hear we’ll ask on your behalf”. It’s not a catchy title but it is descriptive 😁   Plus, we had Question of the Week: To be an expert, what’s more important, depth of knowledge of breadth of knowledge.   And there where the usual set of unexpected revelations 🎤 Mic drops 😡 New feature rant 🏃‍♀️ Running 51 miles in a week ➕ 99.5 is NOT 100 🍄 Mushrooms of knowledge 🚙 Back on the road again     Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male ( absent Wyn Hopkins, )  

  16. 38

    Are you ready for 2026?

    Question of the Week:   2026 Plans and coping with back to work blues. 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  Warning: May Contain Traces of Technical Content 🍫🪓Chocolate Chisels ❄️Snow 🚃Stockholm 🛷 Stair Sledging 🦒Australian Christmas 🛞Wagon Wheels 🎯Long Distance Darts 😰January Blues 🤔2025 Review       Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

  17. 37

    Christmas Livestream - Die Hard Try Harder

    Watch on YouTube: YouTube Live Question of the Year:   Highlights and Lowlights of 2025 plus hopes for 2026 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  Quiz of the year SharePoint Full Marathon Qualifiers Struggling with top 10 Features Die Hard Try Harder   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  18. 36

    Red Flag Finds - and a Chris (tmas) Angyal

    Question of the Day:   When you open a file what are the Red Flags 🚩 that indicates it wasn't created by an expert? Special Guest Cristian Angyal https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristian-angyal/ 🔄️ Will Online Schedule refresh ever come to Excel? 🔏 Password Weakness in Excel 👉🏻 SharePoint List Refresh speed up  🐍 Python in Google  https://colab.google/ 🚩Any File not created by Mark 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off 

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    Best Practice Confessions & Terminology Overload

    Question of the Week:   What are Best Practices you ignore? 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  Be prepared for some shocking confessions: 📅 Wyn doesn’t set date tables 🧮 Giles abandons simple formulas ➡️ Mark uses Merge & Centre 🧹Sue leaves unused measures to collect dust     Plus, there the usual unexpected revelations: 🙎‍♂️ Mansplaining remains un-explained 📋 Ontology becomes an everyday word 🎄 Who gets invited to Christmas parties? 🥊 Power BI vs Excel… Bring it on. 🛌 Stickering a hotel room 💻 Is Export to Excel OK?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

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    Trolls, New Features and Common Data Problems

    Trolls, Features and Common Data problems.   In this chaotic episode of Unpivot, the gang kicks things off with Halloween antics and quickly spirals into the wild world of Excel, Power BI, and internet comment drama. From TikTok trolls who think Power Pivot lives in Access (spoiler: it doesn’t) to debates about whether picking pumpkins is just muddy shopping, it’s a rollercoaster of laughs and learning. They also dive into juicy new features like visual calcs, agent mode, and formula-by-example, and share their favourite ways to handle messy data, missing dates, and the eternal mystery of “what does sales actually mean?”  Question of the Week:   What are Common Data Problems you come across 🎃 What does "Pick your own" actually mean? 😡 Haters gonna Hate 👩‍💻 Lots of New Features in Excel and Power BI 📊 Visual calcs 🤔 Is Excel a database?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    More AI Hype and Modeling Mistakes to Avoid

    Question of the Week:   What are your top 3 modeling mistakes to avoid.  👾 10 Goto 20 - Reminiscing Coding and Games of the Past 😬 Mark feels like a spare part ( "I do not think that word means what you think it means") 😳 Giles suffers from foot-in-mouth disease 🤖 AI over-Hyped?  Surely not? 🍫 Will chocolate ever be a healthy snack?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    Deb, Leila and the Humble MVP

    Question of the Week:  What shall we ask Deb and Leila? 🚩Red Flags 🦹Serial Killer Tips? 🤖 Excel Agent Mode ➡️ Swipe Right? ❓Excel Autocomplete 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Is Speed Good? 🔢 Prompt Bingo 🍓Strawberry Laces 🩳Short Shorts? 🎛️ Video Editor Tips Thanks to our special Guests Deb Ashby Cellmates - YouTube Leila Gharani https://www.youtube.com/@LeilaGharani   Links to regular hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page

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    Conference and Networking Hacks

    Question of the Week:  What's your Conference and Networking tips / hacks? 🥨Vienna Fabcon 🤝All about the members 🗞️News - Dataflows Gen 2 and UDFs 😶‍🌫️ How to Enter and Exit a conversation ⌛ Time Capsule Thanks to our sponsor 😆✈️Cabeau https://cabeau.com/products/evolution-s3-neck-pillow Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page

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    Hardware Takes a Turn

    Question of the Week:  What's your favourite hardware? ⌚Tardy Giles 🎤 Rap Review ❎ Sue's XLOOKUP admission ⌨️Fn Backspace 🕜Sue's mysterious object 🤬Cross(ed) Wires - the most boring topic so far goes off! ⏲️ They call him Mark "High-Tech" Proctor 🦶🏻Foot Fans? ✈️Cabeau https://cabeau.com/products/evolution-s3-neck-pillow Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page

  25. 29

    =COPILOT Rant, AI Hype and Competitive Excel Pressure

    NO QUESTION OF THE WEEK???!!! Too much other stuff to chat about... ⌚Tardy Mark 😥Competition Pressure 🧘🏻‍♀️Sue's Zen advice 🎤East 17 Tribute Band request 😡Wyn's =COPILOT rant 💡Mark's =COPILOT use case 🥰Brian Julius Shout Out https://www.moderndata101.com/network/brian-julius 🔢 32,767 💚XLOOKUP day 🫶🏻 - Fwends 🐁Mark's wired Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    What technology are you ignoring - with Ken Puls

      Special guest Ken Puls returns to the pod this week.   Question of the week: What technologies are you currently ignoring and why? Other topics: 😴 Falling asleep during presentations 🐻 Out running a bear 🙊 Don’t say the C word 💬 Arguing with AI Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male. 🐒🔨🪛Ken Puls: https://excelguru.ca/

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    What are your favourite defaults?

    Question of the Week:   What are your favourite defaults and what would be on your wish list?  We all learn something new in this episode!! 🗣️ Wyn's emphasis game and talking to a wall 💙 Join us on BlueSky ⚓ Giles's ever-growing tattoo 🎬 Editing v just getting it out there 👁️Strava , social networks and why Mark left Facebook Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    What happens when you're away?

    Sue's back! Question of the Week:   How do you set things up for when you're away   Mark's offer: https://exceloffthegrid.com/modern-excel-formulas/   🔄️Pivot Refresh ☠️ Giles's new Tattoo ↔️ Excel compatibility versions 🐻 Running in the woods with Bears 🧑🏻‍✈️ Power BI Copilot Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    Mr Excel

    It's the one and only Bill Jelen!  🫡 Find Bill's Channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/@MrXL/videos   Question of the Week:   Ask Bill Anything   💚Surprise Guest for Giles 💛 Awards for Mark And Giles 💚 Wyn's #Nightmare 💛 Bill's Fatboy Slim experience 💚 Publishing / Flighting / In Person / AI   Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

  30. 24

    Interview and CV Advice - 1 Year Birthday

    watch the video intro https://youtu.be/pzmaa74LErc?si=xydH-biTfjTbKUYh It's our 1-year anniversary and our Question of the Week is: What should and shouldn't you put on your CV and say in an interview   Also discussion around: 💚Excel Stats for Accountants 💛 Visual Calcs updates 💚 Clip-Champ 💛 Training day tips   Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

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    Ken Puls, AI Theft, and the myth of keeping up

    🐒🔨🪛Ken Puls: https://excelguru.ca/ QotW: What motivates you? Other chat: AI Theft  Ultramarathon Can you keep up, how to avoid the stress 18 years as an MVP Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male. 📢 Special Mention: The Secrets Behind the Graph: Mastering Any Chart in Excel | Laura Szepesi https://youtu.be/Hd_yfUr7pDo?si=giYOFS3i_EtDB3_x  

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    Data Hall Of Fame

    #Excel #PowerBI QotW: Who or What is in your Data Hall of Fame? Other chat: Trying to start the pod without Wyn Bike Thief #YouveBeenHumbled Giles Issue with Cheat Sheets explored Is it still worth writing blog posts? QotW Jingle Theft! Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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    Excel Updates Mini Pod May 2025

    Mark and Giles do a mini pod discussing recent Excel updates including Copilot Copilot Dark Mode Copilot 🙄 Tokens and more...  

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    What is a Microsoft MVP & Is it all getting too complicated?

    #Excel #PowerBI Please leave a 5 Star Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ QotW: What is a Microsoft MVP? Other chat: Is Excel getting too complicated? Deb's Marathon horror story Dogs and Chocolate DUREX <> ANDREX Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Deb Ashby and Giles Male. EVERYTHING SEARCH TOOLBAR https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianjuliusdc_windows-tipsandtricks-search-activity-7187144578196492288-6SmG/

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    Mini Pod - Power BI Updates April 2025

    Wyn and Sue try out a shorter 2-person pod discussing recent Power BI Updates including Live edit of semantic models in Direct Lake mode in Desktop F2 Capacity now can use Copilot Style Presets PowerPoint Annotation File Picker and more...     April Blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-april-2025-feature-summary/ Azure Maps https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-april-2025-feature-summary/#post-29602-_Toc195631038   #PowerBI 🔗Other chat links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

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    The Value of Experience

    #Excel #PowerBI Please leave a 5 Star Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (if we've inspired you to do exercise) QotW: What Value does Experience Have? Other chat: Sue's Swag Becoming fitness influencers Editor's Note-gate Excel Speedrun Power BI course announcement Advanced vs beginner training challenges Merch and Staying Humble Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male. Brian Julius DAX Helper https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianjuliusdc_dax-ai-prompting-activity-7298279526210387968-qhHM/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAJrY_QBWQHQpSN8U1UK8kGKjuTbZI0iCR4 Wyn's DAX GPT https://chatgpt.com/g/g-zCDnEznGt-dax-helper-by-access-analytic

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    Livestream with Oz Du Soleil - what drives us to make changes?

    #Excel #PowerBI Find Oz here: www.youtube.com/@OzduSoleilDATA Oz's songs (YouTube) Tin Man by America On and On by Stephen Bishop QotW: What Drives us to make changes Other chat: QUIZ! Oz goes deep Sue is late, but gets a song Mark meets his target Please leave a 5 Star Review  Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page   Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

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    Time Quotes, 100k Subscribers and Black Box Lambdas

    #Excel #PowerBI QotW: How to quote for work and estimate time. Other chat: What's the secret to 100K subscribers Are Lambdas a black box? Giles toys with occupational ruin. Sue is not happy with Mark Mark drops shade on Wyn's REGEX idea Please leave a 5 Star Review  Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page   Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

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    Data Visualisation Choices in Power BI in Excel

    Please leave a 5 Star Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page QotW: What data visualisation choices do you make? Other chat: Sue chats to everyone Mark chats to no-one Wyn geeks out over PowerToys Giles discusses his port-folio of news Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   💊Giles Ali Torban : https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisontorban/ 🏃🏻‍♂️Mark Stephanie Evergreen https://stephanieevergreen.com/ Book: Effective Data Visualization Robert Mundigl: https://www.clearlyandsimply.com/clearly_and_simply/   Roberto Mensa: https://sites.google.com/site/e90e50charts/ Carlos Barbosa: https://spilledgraphics.com/ Jon Peltier: https://peltiertech.com/   🏅Sue Psychology and data viz: https://youtu.be/Qa4740dZGl8?si=NfTlHrN6HLMyR0sK April 2025 Accessibility Colours : https://www.meetup.com/d-c_powerbi/events/305646055/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events   🦘Wyn PowerToys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002589 Books: https://pbi.guide/resources/#Books WorkoutWednesday: https://workout-wednesday.com/   #Excel #PowerBI

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    Jon Acampora, Shirts, Coding and things people get stuck on.

    Special Guest:  Jon Acampora of Excel Campus Stay tuned to the end for bonus shirt count! QotW: Which features, techniques or concepts do most people get stuck on? How can we make it understandable? Other chat: Sue discovers the Automate tab in Excel Mark takes researching guests too far Jon reveals how many shirts he has Giles dances while cheat sheets fall from the sky Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male. Links to watch and more Unpivot Show Links Page     #Excel #PowerBI

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    Excel Summit ABBA and Presentation Tips

      QotW:  What are you tips for delivering good presentations Other chat: Mark explains why he doesn't like Chris Webb Giles is sick but soldiers on Sue did DP700 exam and presentation Wyn needs to work on Irish names   Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

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    Copilot Fail and Work Life Balance

      QotW:  Can we achieve Work Life Balance? Other chat: Commitments update Wyn rants about Copilot Giles gets invited onto a radio show during the recording Mark gets a new webcam Sue is getting ready for a BIG presentation Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

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    When does a business outgrow Excel and Power BI?

      QotW:  Can majority of businesses run on Excel and Power BI alone? Commitments update Giles rants about LinkedIn copyright infringement What makes for good visuals At what point do you outgrow Excel Main Topic: Once again we ran out of time! Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

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    Should Power BI be part of Fabric - who is Fabric aimed at?

    Main Topic: Should Power BI be part of Fabric? QotW: Goals / Resolutions  Christmas Catch up and New Year's resolutions We struggle with maths - How many pies per day does Mark need to eat, how many pounds in 15 stone Mark gets on a hobby horse Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

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    Christmas Livestream Uncut - Live and Unedited

    More chaotic than normal and also unedited due to the livestream nature. Hope you enjoy it even if sound is not up to usual standard and some of the content makes more sense if watching. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/T05qrByEarg?si=7QW3uaMwwYfYcFbC 🎄Christmas Quiz🎄 🎄Favourite Features of 2024🎄 Hosts Wyn Hopkins,  Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, Giles Male.   #Excel #PowerBI

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    Chandeep Chhabra - Wow Factor Demos - Adapting when moving from Excel to Power BI

    Thanks to special guest Chandeep Chhabra.   QotW:  What’s your show off / wow factor demo / trick?  Main Topic: How to think about Power BI and DAX and the transition from Excel Power BI?   Hosts Wyn Hopkins,  Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

  47. 7

    The Diarmuid Early Episode. Competitions, Challenges and Productivity Toolkit recommendations

    Thanks to special guest Dim Early   QotW: Does taking part in competitions and challenges help in the real world? If so… how? What skills do they not teach you? Main Topic: What are the best methods for building a personal toolkit for productivity?   Hosts  Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

  48. 6

    What features would you add to Excel or Power BI & Starting your own business

    Mark lays down a challenge to who has the easiest dependent drop down list technique Giles is glad not to be in charge and has become a Lambda Lover Sue has run ANOTHER marathon! Wyn has an embarrassing rant online. QotW: What Features would you add to Excel?  Main Topic:  Motivations and Challenges of starting your own business   Mark’s video on Easiest Dependent Drop Downs Wyn's video on Easiest Dependent Drop Downs Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot #Excel #PowerBI

  49. 5

    When are you an expert and are technical books still relevant?

    🙏🏻 Special Guest: Rick De Groot ( Gorilla.Bi )  (  Power Query How - Home of the M Language ) QotW: When are you an expert?  Main Topic:  Are technical books still relevant in the world of AI?   Join the conversation on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-unpivot-show Hosts  Giles Male, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Rick de Groot

  50. 4

    Late to the Party and Presentation Tips

    QotW:  What features were you late to discover but now love Main Topic:  Presentation Tips and tricks    Join the conversation on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-unpivot-show Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.   Watch https://youtu.be/LNgzqrepyic #Excel #PowerBI Host Host: Wyn Hopkins is a Power BI and Excel expert known for simplifying complex business intelligence solutions.

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