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Raw Data with Rob Collie — 236 episodes
Waiting Worked...Until AI
Why Bigger AI Isn't Always Better
What Happens After the AI Works?
Absences, KPI Updates, Book Title and Pre-Order Bundle Reveal
It's Time to Start Looking Into Microsoft IQ
Cowork Builds Apps Now, and 'Acquired Skills Will Appear Here' w/ Garett Medlin
AI "versus" the Medical Establishment, Rob's Sith Name, and the Death of Social Media?
Book PR, Fourth-and-One, the AI Knowledge Cliff, and LinkedIn WTF Moments
How Claude Cowork is Helping a College Senior Boil the Job-Hunting Ocean
More Cowork Love, "Data Gene" Gets a Rebrand, Tiny Bottle, and the End of Wordpress
Knowitall Doctors, Mac Keyboards, More Love for CoWork, and Maybe it was the Models After All
Why CoPilot Cowork is a Big Deal
Career Growth Curves and the Data Gene as the Answer to Everything
Who's the AI Stakeholder: Leaders or Employees?
The Dangers of Letting AI Speak for You, and Why Selling AI Might be Easier than Selling Dashboards
Jensen Huang's Reindeer Games, Agent Frameworks vs. Fully Custom, and Rapid Impact vs. Technical Debt
How to Acclimate Your Family to AI
Tales from the Five Percent: Tangible AI Success, w/ Tuio's Juan Garcia
Rob's New Book on AI (and Why He's Writing It)
Is AI "Vibe Coding" the Next VBA?
Democratized Data Science, Custom Software is the Future, and the Data Gene Rides Again
The Apparent Meaninglessness of AI Benchmarks, plus How to Explain AI Opportunities to Others
The Power BI Fundamentals Behind Expert Development *and* AI Simplicity, w/ Microsoft's Rui Romano
Why We Should Stop Paying Attention to the % of AI Projects which Fail (and Instead Learn Why the Others Succeed)
Cat Negotiations, Dishonest Chatbots, AI vs AI in the Job Market, and More Real World AI Use Cases
Customizing AI for Your Business is Crucial But It Isn't Hard
Is AI a Bubble?
Getting Specific with AI via Categories: Chat, Headless, and Embedded
AI Agents for the Manufacturing Industry, w/ Interpak CFO Bill Krolicki
AI is "Just" a New Faucet, plus the Value of Getting Specific
YOU are the AI Cavalry
Can AI Go Straight from Requirements to Power BI Models?
AI Isn't Magic - It's Middleware (And That's Good News)
What Exactly IS an AI Agent? We Propose a Friendly, Non-Gatekeeping Definition
Is CoPilot the End of Filters? (Plus a Cautionary Tale)
The "Steal My Money" Lever: A Timely Tale of Data Saving the Day
Even in the AI Era, Communication is the Central Theme
Episode 200: The Road Ahead for Data and AI
The "Dobie Moment" (The Awesome Power of AI/CoPilot Frontends - AND a Cautionary Tale)
The Million-Token Myth and the Magic of Digital Colleagues
Semantic Models Give You (and Microsoft) the AI Upper Hand - Plus a History Lesson on Why Frontends Matter
Everything's Real, Everything Matters, and Everyone Knows It w/ Quadrant Concrete CFO Joseph Graziano
It's Time to Start Giving Power BI CoPilot a Serious Look (For End User Interaction)
Connecting AI to Your Company's Internal Information
An Inflection Point in AI? Understanding MCP and Multi-Agent
Confessions of a Data Gener w/ Sakiko Stickley
The Biggest Improvements Announced at FabCon, and the Ever-Widening Gap Between Adoption and Capabilities
Data, Data, and Metadata: Letting ChatGPT Interpret Power BI Output
AI Agents, Business Bros, and Snake Oil
One Data Model to Rule them All?
Miller's Theorem: A Principle for Getting Off the Fence
Rethinking the ROI of Dashboards
Why the Data Gene is (Still) Under-Represented in Management
The Data Gene Transforms Non-Football Fans into Fantasy Football Devotees, w/ Adam Harstad
What Drives Costs for Data Projects, and How are They Changing Over Time?
Power BI is Back on the Menu, plus The Importance of Usage Data, w/ Gil Raviv
Happy Holidays, and Remembering Bob Pop Collie
The Microsoft MVP Take: Innovation, Hype, and the Future of Data
Misaligned Incentives, Failures of Government, and Coca-Cola's AI Misstep
Riding the Tsunami: Why Expanding into Unmet Demand Makes Our Jobs Safe
The Crutches Paradox (and Why Senior Software Engineers Don't Care About AI)
Taking the Week Off
A Lifelong Learner Embraces AI, w/Brian Julius
There and Back Again: Returning to Seattle
Resilience Sometimes Beats Prevention, and Six Ways to Get off the Starting Line with AI
The Curious Case of the CFL Light Bulb
Head to Head: Can ChatGPT Replicate Rob's Inspired Solution to a Power Query Challenge?
Dashboards are Dead! Long Live Dashboards!
A Simple Trick for (Occasionally) Predicting the Future
Low-Tech Industries and High-Tech AI: a Great Match Explained Through Examples
The Power of Data in Real World Industries
Modernizing through Data for Literal Growth with Paul Grissom of PAR
A Bathtub of Data Holds an Ocean of Information (plus the Midmarket Paradox and Other News)
The Power of Empathy & Why Drudge Work is Dying, with Microsoft's Scott Sewell
Microsoft Fabric: Early Case Studies and Business Impact
Knowing WHAT Formula You Need is More Important than Knowing HOW to Write It
The Manufacturing Industry is a Sweet Spot for Power BI and Power Apps, w/Madison Brooks
CrowdStrike as the Exception which Proves the Rule
My New Clarity and Confidence About AI
Data from the Outside In, w/ MVP Kristyna Ferris
Is Power BI a Gateway to AI, or Vice Versa? w/ BARC US CEO Shawn Rogers
Finding The Sweet Spot: When Is Your Power BI Model Ready for AI and ML?
The Human Side of Data: Using Analytics for Personal Well-being
Making Sense of Spark When You "Only" Have a Power BI Background, w/ Microsoft's Chris Finlan
Good Tech Things and the Limits of AI, w/Forrest Brazeal
The Future of Power BI's Visual Experience, w/ Miguel Myers
Impact Forward vs Infrastructure Forward: The Faucets First Philosophy
Growth Eras, Mea Culpas, and Non-Competes
Power BI Models are the Center of the Fabric Universe - But What Has ACTUALLY Changed?
What We Learned at the Fabric Conference
A Framework for Spotting Legitimate AI Use Cases
"Hallucination" is Just a Fancy Word for Being Wrong
Adjacent and Between: Demystifying Digital Transformation with Power Apps and Power Automate
I Want YOU for the Raw Data Steering Committee
There is no SUM Function, w/ Matt Allington
Reevaluating the Role of Industry Expertise: Tradeoffs Between Specialization and Adaptation
A Lesson in Recent History Cures Today's AI Uncertainty
Reimagining the Three Core Financial Reports w/ Daniel Harley
Are You Getting the Most Out of Power BI?
A Transformational Power BI Success Story at Medtronic w/ Luciano Miranda
Listening to Your Stakeholders is Harder Than You Think
AI Isn't Scary When You Break it Down: Five Use Cases Approachable Today
Inline Analytics Doesn't Mean What You Suspect it Means, w/Ryan Spahr
Creating a Theater of Excitement in Analytics, w/ Austin Senseman
Getting Unstuck and Unlocking Ambition w/ Kristal Searle
FOBO - The Fear of Becoming Obsolete (And How to Navigate It)
The I in "BI" Stands for Improvement
Ten business upgrades within your reach in 2024
Fabric – It's GA (GO) Time!
Should we be skeptical about Microsoft Fabric?
The Fruit of the Electric Grapevine: Industry-Leading Visibility on Limited Resources, w/ Jack Irby
Mailbag #1: Python, Fabric, and Mullets oh my!
Fabric is Nothing, But it's also Everything
True North Versus Magnetic North w/Jeff Jorgensen
Sometimes it is Rocket Science w/ Szilvia Juhasz
Matching Data Workloads with the Right Hardware w/ Steve Orrin
KPIs for Dance Club DJs w/ Paul Ray
There Are No CSV Files in Norway w/ MS MVP Cathrine Wilhelmsen
Zen and the Art of Knowing When to Jump Ship w/ Chris Wagner
Let's Argue About BestMovieCast.net w/ Dave Rivera
Only Amateurs Name Drop Steve Ballmer, w/ Mike Nichols
Like Throwing Water on Gremlins, w/ Fred Kaffenberger
Bill Gates Needed a Chair
Put Some Adventure On Your Taco, w/ Dan Battagin
Rebooting Excel and Reinventing Ourselves, w/ Charlie Ellis
Good Design is the Cake, Not the Icing, w/ Brad Weed
Readily Ticket's Series of Fortunate Events, w/ David Wood
The Impostor Syndrome World Championships, w/ Jocelyn Collie
Quickbooks Analytics When You Can't Find the 'Any' Key w/ Chuck Vigeant
Environmental Engineering Meets the Data Gene, w/ MS MVP Alice Drummond
The DAX Draft
Pragmatic Works is a Two Word Sentence, w/ Brian Knight
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chicago, w/Nicole Janeway Bills
The Elevator Pitch for Power BI, w/ Microsoft MVP Belinda Allen
Something Bigger than Yourself, w/ Microsoft's Miguel Escobar
A Guest Fit for the 100th Episode, w/ Justin Mannhardt
Power Query Saves Christmas w/ Gus Miranda
Why is Everything So Slow w/ Scott Louvau
Soaring the Skies of OPTIMIZEDAX(), w/ Narayana Windenberger
Excel is the Most Functional of Programming Languages w/ Simon Peyton Jones
Career Switchers Have the Power (Platform), w/ Microsoft's April Dunnam
Cloud Services Used to Be Really Dumb w/ Eric Vigesaa
Women In Data w/ Sadie St. Lawrence
Pokémon Go Maps are a Green Technology, w/ Mike Ellis
The Cloud is Powered by People w/ Jeff DeVerter
Setting Up For Success w/David McKinnis
The Software Hall of Fame, w/ Microsoft's Conor Cunningham
A Most Generous Mentor, w/ Microsoft's Dany Hoter
Technophobes Make Amazing Technologists, w/ Kerry Kolosko
Tinkering is a Way of Life w/Darinee Louvau
"MVPness" Doesn't Sound Quite Right w/ MS MVP Ed Hansberry
You've Gotta (Bruce) Buffer Your Data w/ Alex Sanabria
Actuaries Put the "X" in DAX, w/Philip Trick
A Mechanical Clutch Isn't a Steampunk Purse, w/ Bill Sundwall
The Evolution of SharePoint w/ Denise Trabona and Adam Harmetz
What is Data May Never Die, w/ Scree
Crypto-Fantasy Leftists are an Exclusive Tribe, w/ Davis Mattek
Trustworthy Data for a Healthy Democracy, w/ USAFacts' Poppy MacDonald
BI Have the Power, w/ Johnny Winter of Greyskull Analytics
Office's Relevance to the Power Platform Crowd, w/ Tristan Davis
The Relentless Pursuit of a Better Way w/ Liz Rogers
Writing your Data Adventure, w/ Blythe Morrow
Into the Dataverse w/ James Oleinik
Mapping the Road to Innovation, w/ Mike Reynolds
Small Biz, Big Impact w/ Fran Reed
The Freediving, Meditating Data Translator, w/ Allison Kennedy
The Power Platform is for Kids Too, w/ Zara and Zenubia Khan
Going Bananas for Data, w/ Jeff Lingen
The Return of the Revenge of Matt Selig
From FP&A to Global Director of Data, w/ Khaled Chowdhury
ML & Algorithms Hit the Bigtime, w/ DataRobot's Diego Oppenheimer
Falling Iguanas and Fantastic Intelligence, w/ Priscilla Camp
Escher's Lazy River w/Chris Haas
Even Undead Lords Love Data w/Scree
The Numbers that Didn't Exist, w/Tim Rodman
Be Careful with that Umfahren, w/ Lars Schreiber
Stay Away from Guadalcanal, w/ Olivier Travers
An Anthropologist Goes Corporate, w/ Geoff McNeely
Gifted Kids Gone Wild, w/ Luke the Producer
Hawking Data and Stymying Offenses, w/ Coach Chase Hargis
Birth of a Data-Driven Salesperson, w/ Carson Heady
Protect the Spots with NO Bulletholes, w/ Adam Harstad
The Life of a WW2 Navy Pilot Cadet (Bonus), w/ Bob Pop Collie
A Data Wildling Goes Embedded, w/ Mary Fealty
Free Range Analytics, w/ Angel Abundez
The Spirit of "Why Not" with Bob Pop Collie
Leaders Need Not be Flashy, w/ Microsoft VP Dave Gainer
M is for Imke, w/ Imke Feldmann
Septic Companions and Breaded Capacitors, w/ Chris Rae
The Power Ranking Godfather, w/ Jeff Sagarin & Wayne Winston
99% is the New Zero, w/ Microsoft Director Shelly Avery
The Plural of Alex is Alex, w/ Alex Dupler and Alex Powers
Speak Softly but Pack a Mean Elbow, w/ Jen Stirrup
Epistemic Path Dependency, w/ Adam Harstad
For Those About to DAX, w/ Microsoft's Greg Beaumont
Spreadsheet Celebrities & Power BI Playdates, w/ Chandoo
The Data Lakehouse: Brick by Brick, w/ Databricks' Denny Lee
Excel Past/Present/Future, w/ Excel Head of Product Brian Jones
Robotic Process Automation for All, w/ Microsoft's Ashvini Sharma
Rob Collie Explains Why Raw Data Has Been Silent
The Invention of Skippable YouTube Ads, w/ Shishir Mehrotra
COVID Basement Racquetball, w/ Microsoft's Vishal Lodha
Surfing the Changing Seas of Data, w/ Microsoft's Chris Webb
The Keanu Reeves of Data, w/ Evan Rhodes
A Different Kind of Data Emergency, w/ Derek Rickard
Earth's Only Hope vs. Alien Excel Invaders, w/ Ken Puls
Wolverine Sold Gym Memberships, w/ Ryan Bergstrom
Cat Memes Built my Data Model, w/ Krissy Dyess
Data Gandalf's Growing Revolution, w/ Gordon Rowe III
Intelligence Platform is a Cool Name, w/ Microsoft CVP Arun Ulag
Yoda Chong and the Treehouse of Wonder, w/ Donald Farmer
The Dutchman of Data Dunked on Me, w/ Kasper de Jonge
The Origins of Power Query, w/ Sid Jayadevan and Miguel Llopis
Everyone's in the Middle, w/ Former NFL QB Hugh Millen
A Single Complete Leader, w/ P3 Pres & COO Kellan Danielson
Marine Biology Leads to Power Platforming, w/ Chuck Sterling
Crimefighting with a Data Model, w/ John Hancock
The OG Internet Tech Celebrity, w/ MrExcel's Bill Jelen
Timely Supply Chains and Double Data Genes, w/ Jon Perl
Data Chefs Can Come From Anywhere, w/ Gartner's Lori Rodriguez
The Public Face of Power BI, w/ Adam Saxton of Guy in a Cube
Scrubbing Data & Beating COVID, w/ Matt Selig of Bar Keepers Friend
The Data Witches, w/ Shannon Lindsay & Stephanie Bruno
The Query Store's Open for Biz, w/ Microsoft's Conor Cunningham
The Internet of Things Goes to the Museum, w/ Austin Senseman
One of the World's Most Amazing Humans, w/ Matt Allington
Hostages and Volunteers Both Love Booze, w/ Paul Boynton
Hopefully you Like Hope Foley, w/ Microsoft's Hope Foley
The Man of a Thousand Jobs, w/ Kevin Overstreet
Michael Salfino Post Election Show
Mark Cuban Crashed my Lecture, w/ IU's Dr. Wayne Winston
Pokerbots, Adware, and Burning Man, w/ Brad Miller & Kai Hankinson
The Persistent Power of Pagination, w/ Microsoft's Chris Finlan
Data is Pretty Sweet in the C-Suite, w/ Joe Phelan
Hybrid Professionals Dominate the Decathlon, w/ Michael Salfino
SQL Batman Didn't Want to Be a Data Janitor, w/ Thomas LaRock