Mark and Giles do a mini pod discussing recent Excel updates including

• Copilot
• Copilot
• Dark Mode
• Copilot 🙄
• Tokens

and more...

#Excel #PowerBI Please leave a 5 Star Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ QotW: What is a Microsoft MVP? Other chat:

• Is Excel getting too complicated?
• Deb's Marathon horror story
• Dogs and Chocolate
• DUREX <> ANDREX

Links to hosts and other content

Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Deb Ashby and Giles Male. EVERYTHING SEARCH TOOLBAR https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianjuliusdc_windows-tipsandtricks-search-activity-7187144578196492288-6SmG/

QotW:  Can majority of businesses run on Excel and Power BI alone?

• Commitments update
• Giles rants about LinkedIn copyright infringement
• What makes for good visuals
• At what point do you outgrow Excel

Main Topic: Once again we ran out of time!

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

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#Excel #PowerBI

Main Topic: Should Power BI be part of Fabric?

QotW: Goals / Resolutions 

• Christmas Catch up and New Year's resolutions
• We struggle with maths - How many pies per day does Mark need to eat, how many pounds in 15 stone
• Mark gets on a hobby horse

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

Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot

#Excel #PowerBI

More chaotic than normal and also unedited due to the livestream nature. Hope you enjoy it even if sound is not up to usual standard and some of the content makes more sense if watching. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/T05qrByEarg?si=7QW3uaMwwYfYcFbC

🎄Christmas Quiz🎄 🎄Favourite Features of 2024🎄 Hosts Wyn Hopkins,  Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, Giles Male.

#Excel #PowerBI

Thanks to special guest Chandeep Chhabra.

QotW:  What’s your show off / wow factor demo / trick? 

Main Topic: How to think about Power BI and DAX and the transition from Excel Power BI?

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

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Thanks to special guest Dim Early

QotW: Does taking part in competitions and challenges help in the real world? If so… how? What skills do they not teach you?

Main Topic: What are the best methods for building a personal toolkit for productivity?

Hosts  Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, Giles Male.

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• Mark lays down a challenge to who has the easiest dependent drop down list technique
• Giles is glad not to be in charge and has become a Lambda Lover
• Sue has run ANOTHER marathon!
• Wyn has an embarrassing rant online.

QotW: What Features would you add to Excel? 

Main Topic:  Motivations and Challenges of starting your own business

Mark’s video on Easiest Dependent Drop Downs

Wyn's video on Easiest Dependent Drop Downs

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

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#Excel #PowerBI

🙏🏻 Special Guest: Rick De Groot ( Gorilla.Bi )  (  Power Query How - Home of the M Language ) QotW: When are you an expert? 

Main Topic:  Are technical books still relevant in the world of AI?

Join the conversation on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-unpivot-show Hosts  Giles Male, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Rick de Groot

QotW:  What features were you late to discover but now love

Main Topic:  Presentation Tips and tricks 

Join the conversation on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-unpivot-show Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

Watch https://youtu.be/LNgzqrepyic

#Excel #PowerBI

Host: Wyn Hopkins is a Power BI and Excel expert known for simplifying complex business intelligence solutions.

We also discuss Best Practice  Links mentioned:

1️⃣ Giles MVP award video

2️⃣ Spreadsheet Best Practice Rules

3️⃣ Question Of the Week on LinkedIn Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Giles Male, Mark Proctor and Deb Ashby

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Links mentioned:

Data Scotland: https://datascotland.org/

Chris Barber: https://www.starschema.co.uk/ 

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

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Wyn and Sue try out a shorter 2-person pod discussing recent Power BI Updates including

• Live edit of semantic models in Direct Lake mode in Desktop
• F2 Capacity now can use Copilot
• Style Presets
• PowerPoint Annotation
• File Picker

and more...

April Blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-april-2025-feature-summary/ Azure Maps https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-april-2025-feature-summary/#post-29602-_Toc195631038

#PowerBI 🔗Other chat links to hosts and other content

Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

Welcome back Mark! Training Resources: https://pbi.guide/resources/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002589  https://exceloffthegrid.com/  https://www.fullstackmodeller.com/  https://skillwave.training/  https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp 

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

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🙏🏻Thanks to special guest Cristian Angyal https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristian-angyal Romania Power BI and Modern Excel User Group | Meetup

🔗Links mentioned in show

Ideas: Power BI https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/

Ideas: Excel  https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/c23f3b77-f01b-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472

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

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🙏🏻Thanks to special guest Deb Ashby https://www.tiktok.com/@cellmates_

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahashby/

🔗Links mentioned in show

PowerToys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install

Forums:

Mr Excel: https://www.mrexcel.com/board/

Power BI Community: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-forums/ct-p/powerbi

Excel Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/bd-p/ExcelGeneral

Reddit Excel: https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/

Reddit Power BI: https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/

Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/excel

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

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A light hearted discussion about Excel, Power BI and some other occasional tech. Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

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The one where we discuss Jon Acampora's post that he's stopped recommending Excel Tables and whether we fear we are falling behind with the rapid pace of change. The Kurt Buhler post Does it feel like too much? — DATA GOBLINS (data-goblins.com) A light hearted discussion about Excel, Power BI and some other occasional tech. Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

The one where we introduce ourselves, chat about Excel World Championships, REGEX, Power BI, Copilot, ChatGPT, running, Sue discovers she’s a programmer, and Mark’s ability to now fit in an old suit.

A light hearted discussion about Excel, Power BI and some other occasional tech. Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male.

#Excel #PowerBI Please leave a 5 Star Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (if we've inspired you to do exercise) QotW: What Value does Experience Have? Other chat:

• Sue's Swag
• Becoming fitness influencers
• Editor's Note-gate
• Excel Speedrun
• Power BI course announcement
• Advanced vs beginner training challenges
• Merch and Staying Humble

Links to hosts and other content

Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes, and Giles Male. Brian Julius DAX Helper https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianjuliusdc_dax-ai-prompting-activity-7298279526210387968-qhHM/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAJrY_QBWQHQpSN8U1UK8kGKjuTbZI0iCR4 Wyn's DAX GPT https://chatgpt.com/g/g-zCDnEznGt-dax-helper-by-access-analytic

#Excel #PowerBI

Find Oz here: www.youtube.com/@OzduSoleilDATA Oz's songs (YouTube)

Tin Man by America

On and On by Stephen Bishop

QotW: What Drives us to make changes Other chat:

• QUIZ!
• Oz goes deep
• Sue is late, but gets a song
• Mark meets his target

Please leave a 5 Star Review 

Links to hosts and other content

Unpivot Show Links Page

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

#Excel #PowerBI QotW: How to quote for work and estimate time. Other chat:

• What's the secret to 100K subscribers
• Are Lambdas a black box?
• Giles toys with occupational ruin.
• Sue is not happy with Mark
• Mark drops shade on Wyn's REGEX idea

Please leave a 5 Star Review 

Links to hosts and other content

Unpivot Show Links Page

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

Please leave a 5 Star Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Links to hosts and other content

Unpivot Show Links Page

QotW: What data visualisation choices do you make? Other chat:

• Sue chats to everyone
• Mark chats to no-one
• Wyn geeks out over PowerToys
• Giles discusses his port-folio of news

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

💊Giles Ali Torban : https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisontorban/

🏃🏻‍♂️Mark Stephanie Evergreen https://stephanieevergreen.com/ Book: Effective Data Visualization

Robert Mundigl: https://www.clearlyandsimply.com/clearly_and_simply/

Roberto Mensa: https://sites.google.com/site/e90e50charts/

Carlos Barbosa: https://spilledgraphics.com/

Jon Peltier: https://peltiertech.com/

🏅Sue Psychology and data viz: https://youtu.be/Qa4740dZGl8?si=NfTlHrN6HLMyR0sK

April 2025 Accessibility Colours : https://www.meetup.com/d-c_powerbi/events/305646055/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

🦘Wyn PowerToys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002589

Books: https://pbi.guide/resources/#Books

WorkoutWednesday: https://workout-wednesday.com/

#Excel #PowerBI

Special Guest:  Jon Acampora of Excel Campus

Stay tuned to the end for bonus shirt count! QotW: Which features, techniques or concepts do most people get stuck on? How can we make it understandable? Other chat:

• Sue discovers the Automate tab in Excel
• Mark takes researching guests too far
• Jon reveals how many shirts he has
• Giles dances while cheat sheets fall from the sky

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

Links to watch and more

Unpivot Show Links Page

#Excel #PowerBI

QotW:  What are you tips for delivering good presentations Other chat:

• Mark explains why he doesn't like Chris Webb
• Giles is sick but soldiers on
• Sue did DP700 exam and presentation
• Wyn needs to work on Irish names

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

Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot

#Excel #PowerBI

QotW:  Can we achieve Work Life Balance? Other chat:

• Commitments update
• Wyn rants about Copilot
• Giles gets invited onto a radio show during the recording
• Mark gets a new webcam
• Sue is getting ready for a BIG presentation

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

Watch https://www.youtube.com/@Unpivot

#Excel #PowerBI