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UnpivotShow 54 Episodes Aug 22, 2026

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

Episodes

Schrödinger's Toilet
Schrödinger's Toilet Aug 22, 2026 3950 QOTW: What Personal Projects have use built with Excel or Power BI   Other nonsense: 🖥️🖥️🖥️ How many MONITORS is too many? 👰🏻‍♀️💍Weddings! 👮🏻🎶 Theme Tune Copyright Violation 🐿️ Is AI diverting us to lower priority activity? 🆑Power BI Bookmark Bliss with Claude Code? 🎼🎸Macro Chords 🐕Pomeranian Technique 🚽Schrodinger's Toilet   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue
Rob Collie
Rob Collie Aug 8, 2026 5085 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   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  
Where do you start with AI?
Where do you start with AI? Jul 25, 2026 4300 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 🛠️ V
Success and f-ai-lure
Success and f-ai-lure Jul 12, 2026 4072 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 (C
Cowork Credits - AI costs hit home
Cowork Credits - AI costs hit home Jun 27, 2026 3985 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   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles
AI Reality and New Project Tips
AI Reality and New Project Tips Jun 13, 2026 3966 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? http
Global Excel Summit Review
Global Excel Summit Review May 30, 2026 4058 🗣️🔥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...   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
Learned too late
Learned too late May 9, 2026 3892 🌏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 enou
We're Doomed!
We're Doomed! Apr 18, 2026 4028 🌏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  Th
Sloppelgangers
Sloppelgangers Apr 4, 2026 3532 💖 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    Unpivot Show Li
100% Accurate v Directionally Correct
100% Accurate v Directionally Correct Mar 21, 2026 3837 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 - http
Life Hacks, Agents and Licencing
Life Hacks, Agents and Licencing Mar 7, 2026 3989 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 Lin

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