Question of the Week:   What are Best Practices you ignore?

📅 Wyn doesn’t set date tables

🧮 Giles abandons simple formulas

➡️ Mark uses Merge & Centre

🧹Sue leaves unused measures to collect dust

Plus, there the usual unexpected revelations:

🙎‍♂️ Mansplaining remains un-explained

📋 Ontology becomes an everyday word

🎄 Who gets invited to Christmas parties?

🥊 Power BI vs Excel… Bring it on.

🛌 Stickering a hotel room

💻 Is Export to Excel OK?

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Trolls, Features and Common Data problems.   In this chaotic episode of Unpivot, the gang kicks things off with Halloween antics and quickly spirals into the wild world of Excel, Power BI, and internet comment drama. From TikTok trolls who think Power Pivot lives in Access (spoiler: it doesn’t) to debates about whether picking pumpkins is just muddy shopping, it’s a rollercoaster of laughs and learning.

They also dive into juicy new features like visual calcs, agent mode, and formula-by-example, and share their favourite ways to handle messy data, missing dates, and the eternal mystery of “what does sales actually mean?” 

Question of the Week:   What are Common Data Problems you come across

🎃 What does "Pick your own" actually mean?

😡 Haters gonna Hate

👩‍💻 Lots of New Features in Excel and Power BI

📊 Visual calcs

🤔 Is Excel a database?

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Question of the Week:   What are your top 3 modeling mistakes to avoid. 

👾 10 Goto 20 - Reminiscing Coding and Games of the Past

😬 Mark feels like a spare part ( "I do not think that word means what you think it means")

😳 Giles suffers from foot-in-mouth disease

🤖 AI over-Hyped?  Surely not?

🍫 Will chocolate ever be a healthy snack?

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Question of the Week:  What shall we ask Deb and Leila?

🦹Serial Killer Tips?

🤖 Excel Agent Mode

➡️ Swipe Right?

❓Excel Autocomplete

🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Is Speed Good?

🔢 Prompt Bingo

🍓Strawberry Laces

🩳Short Shorts?

🎛️ Video Editor Tips

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Question of the Week:  What's your Conference and Networking tips / hacks?

🤝All about the members

🗞️News - Dataflows Gen 2 and UDFs

😶‍🌫️ How to Enter and Exit a conversation

⌛ Time Capsule

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Question of the Week:  What's your favourite hardware?

🎤 Rap Review

❎ Sue's XLOOKUP admission

⌨️Fn Backspace

🕜Sue's mysterious object

🤬Cross(ed) Wires - the most boring topic so far goes off!

⏲️ They call him Mark "High-Tech" Proctor

🦶🏻Foot Fans?

✈️Cabeau https://cabeau.com/products/evolution-s3-neck-pillow

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NO QUESTION OF THE WEEK???!!!

Too much other stuff to chat about...

😥Competition Pressure

🧘🏻‍♀️Sue's Zen advice

🎤East 17 Tribute Band request

😡Wyn's =COPILOT rant

💡Mark's =COPILOT use case

🥰Brian Julius Shout Out https://www.moderndata101.com/network/brian-julius

🔢 32,767

💚XLOOKUP day

🫶🏻 - Fwends

🐁Mark's wired

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Special guest Ken Puls returns to the pod this week.

Question of the week: What technologies are you currently ignoring and why?

😴 Falling asleep during presentations

💬 Arguing with AI

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🐒🔨🪛Ken Puls: https://excelguru.ca/

Question of the Week:   What are your favourite defaults and what would be on your wish list? 

🗣️ Wyn's emphasis game and talking to a wall

💙 Join us on BlueSky

⚓ Giles's ever-growing tattoo

🎬 Editing v just getting it out there

👁️Strava , social networks and why Mark left Facebook

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Sue's back!

Question of the Week:   How do you set things up for when you're away

Mark's offer: https://exceloffthegrid.com/modern-excel-formulas/

🔄️Pivot Refresh

☠️ Giles's new Tattoo

↔️ Excel compatibility versions

🐻 Running in the woods with Bears

🧑🏻‍✈️ Power BI Copilot

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