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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

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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...

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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

 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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/

 

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🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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

 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.