Unpivot

By UnpivotShow

Light-hearted discussion about Excel and Power BI - aimed at the business users of the world... more

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The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.

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August 08, 2026 Rob Collie
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.

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1h 25min
July 25, 2026Where do you start with AI?
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.
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1h 12min
July 12, 2026 Success and f-ai-lure
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.
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1h 8min
June 27, 2026 Cowork Credits - AI costs hit home
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.
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1h 7min
June 13, 2026 AI Reality and New Project Tips
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.
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1h 7min
May 30, 2026 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.
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1h 8min
May 09, 2026 Learned too late
🌏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.
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1h 5min
April 18, 2026 We're Doomed!
🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off

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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1h 8min
April 04, 2026 Sloppelgangers
💖 Link for Sue's fundraiser

🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off

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.
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59min
March 21, 2026 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/

🧢👕Unpivot Merch

🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
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1h 4min

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More shows like Unpivot

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