Podcast
Unpivot
Hosted by UnpivotShow · EN
Light-hearted discussion about Excel and Power BI - aimed at the business users of the world
11episodes
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Success and f-ai-lure
5d ago01:07:52Tap to summarizeQOTW: 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.
Transcribe →Cowork Credits - AI costs hit home
3w ago01:06:25Tap to summarizeSpecial 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.
Transcribe →AI Reality and New Project Tips
Jun 1301:06:06Tap to summarizeQOTW: 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.
Transcribe →Global Excel Summit Review
May 3001:07:38Tap to summarize🗣️🔥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.
Transcribe →Learned too late
May 901:04:52Tap to summarize🌏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.
Transcribe →We're Doomed!
Apr 1801:07:08Tap to summarize🌏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.
Transcribe →Sloppelgangers
Apr 400:58:52Tap to summarize💖 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.
Transcribe →100% Accurate v Directionally Correct
Mar 2101:03:57Tap to summarizeQOTW: 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.
Transcribe →Life Hacks, Agents and Licencing
Mar 701:06:29Tap to summarizeTopic 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.
Transcribe →AI Tipping Point and Do You Struggle to Learn?
Feb 2101:11:15Tap to summarizeQuestion 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.
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