🗣️🔥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 ....
🌏 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...
🌏 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 ...
💖 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 ....
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://karenabe...
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 🧢👕 Unpi...
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 ....
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 Gi...
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 feat...
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 ....
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 ....
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...
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 i...
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, ...
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 ....
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...
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
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...
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 ....
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/...
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
🐒🔨🪛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...
#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 ....
Mark and Giles do a mini pod discussing recent Excel updates including Copilot Copilot Dark Mode Copilot 🙄 Tokens and more...
#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/...
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 U...
#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_d...
