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Special Guest Fay Bordbar  Question of the week: What are our AI predictions 💃🏻 Barcelona FabCon ✌🏻 Is VLOOKUP making a comeback? 🤓 Alex Powers & Greg Baldini shout-outs 🔁 Power Automate Love 📊 Canvas in Excel 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ Turns out Sue is Competitive ⁉️ Is Giles a "S**k" ? 🪃 Aussie Lingo quiz Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QotW: Lists in Excel? Other topics: 🎂 Birthdays 🤖 Is Copilot actually good now? 📢 Power BI Announcements 🤯 2 Million Billion Calculations per second 🪃 Aussie Lingo Quiz   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Thanks to special guest Oz du Soleil  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozdata/ QotW: My way or the highway: When does advice become dogma and how to find the balance. Other topics: 🏯Japan 🔍Kaleidoscopes 🏊🏻Mile Swim 🦘Word of the week 🙊Do we need an opinion on everything?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QOTW: Why are Tables so important?   Other nonsense: 🎂🍾Birthdays 🗣️🌎Foreign Languages 🐿️ 🐀Unnatural Habitats 🙈🫥Embarrassing events 🧞‍♂️🪔Wish Lists 🗞️⚡Breaking News 🐨🦘Aussie Word of the Week    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

🗣️🔥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, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

🌏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.

💖 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://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.