Unpivot

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.