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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

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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!

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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 

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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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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.

AI Tipping Point and Do You Struggle to Learn?

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?
 

 

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

Learning Limits, Kit Kats, Claude and Compatibility

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 

 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins Mark Proctor and Giles Male

( absent Sue Bayes  )