Trolls, New Features and Common Data Problems

2025-11-08

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,...

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

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