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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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...

 

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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

 

 

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