Michael - Data Guy

The Go Gopher - The Go Programming Language The backstory of the Go gopher.

That’s the Golang Gopher 🤩. Based on the iconic Glenda, the Plan9 mascot.

go.dev/blog/gopher

Share your #Excel style conventions and best practices! #ExcelStyle

Mad Lad! Careful you don’t go out on a bender and mix berries with your citrus 😅

Hilarious intro 🤩😂

Unpivot Show A fun podcast about Excel and Power BI

QotW: Who or What is in your Data Hall of Fame?

Plus:

🤷🏻‍♂️Trying to start the pod without Wyn
🚳Bike Thief #YouveBeenHumbled
😠Giles Issue with Cheat Sheets explored
🤔Is it still worth writing blog posts?
🎶Jingle Theft!

Links to Video and Podcast: unpivot.bio.link

Since uBlock stopped working in Chrome I've experienced the shitty internet we're forced to use in 2025. 😱

My god what a horrible mess we've created. Are developers, marketeers and business owners even realizing how terrible their websites really are?

🟦 Power BI friends, ever feel swamped by a sprawling semantic model? 😵‍💫 Here’s a quick hack: split your Model View into multiple layouts.
Organize tables by subject and relationships. Give your model the clarity it deserves! 🚀 #PowerBI #DataTips

Yeah, things like this should not happen IMO. Of course, if you manually set an option of a visual to a certain value, and then copy paste it, 'leaking' this value is expected. But changing visual types should clear all 'non-applicable' options. Likewise, data from tables should NEVER leak.

Hmm, this seems like an issue with Power BI as it should not include report data inside metadata.

⚡A highly underrated skill for Data Engineers is documentation 📋 If you did any sort of work where you had to ingest, extract, process or handle data, you know it can be a mess. Trial and error to get things right. When you're done, think of your future self and write some documentation! 💪

Spent the better part of my afternoon replacing USERELATIONSHIP with TREATAS in some of my reports. For some reason the Power BI Service decided to complain about RLS and USERELATIONSHIP. This is after those reports have worked perfectly for over a year... 😤
#DAX #PowerBI

Sample data you can use for training
https://sinax.be/2025/01/31/sample-data-you-can-use-for-training/
#DataEngineering #DataModelling #MSExcel #PowerBI

This is a test of XPoster. https://sinax.be (9794917)

💡When dealing with large models in Power BI, create new 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀 in the 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄. Now you can easily organize your tables when creating relationships without too much tables cluttering your view 👍

#powerbi #quicktip

Great! If they keep this up they can move Fabric out of Alpha and release an Beta version 😆😈

🔵 Another key element we are seeing is how easily the Chinese government can destabilize the western markets. A couple of hundred million invested in technology coupled with the free release of that tech and we see trillions in (conceived) value being evaporated.

🔵 I think it is undeniable that AI powered technology will be a massive part of our lives in the years to come. But the immense valuation bubble that we have seen and the current effect of Deepseek showcase that companies will need to show real revenue to back the high stock valuation.

The effect of the Deepseek AI model painfully highlights something a lot of people are ignoring: There is very little value in AI that is tangible at the moment. 📉 Historically high stock prices for companies like Nvidia are obliterated when a free model is released.

Wow, I never thought of using a Dashboard as a homepage in an App... 🤯That actually makes a LOT of sense. Great idea! I'll give it a try 👍

I'm always confused when someone says Dashboard in relation to PBI and means the 'Dashboards' feature and not a PBI report that's a dashboard. 😅
Is there anyone that actually gets value from the Dashboards feature in PBI?

So DAX is better than MDX because it's simpler when doing something you shouldn't be doing? 😀

I agree DAX is simpler and I like it more than MDX, but you still shouldn't be using a semantic model for data extraction 😬

Why this isn’t the default option is beyond me 🤷‍♂️

I don’t dispute your claims but would like to see evidence / data before believing this. If so this is a major flaw hard and to believe without detailed analysis.

Or developers stuffing data that you need in a very complicated JSON field that, depending on what value field X has, can have four different structures 😠🤯🤢

Obsidian is so much better! I love the Git plugin and the plain markdown format. No more locked-in notes!
Just wish the image handling was a bit better, copy paste a screenshot requires too much “cleanup” imo.

Persoonlijk denk ik dat Google / Microsoft alle klanten wil laten meebetalen voor het verbruik van de 'enkele' actieve gebruikers.
Anders zou de kost veel te hoog zijn als je als gebruiker de werkelijke kost voor compute zou moeten betalen.

Best Practices for Styling Your Excel Spreadsheet Models Microsoft Excel is often used for modeling, such as financial modeling. Excel can be a powerful way to analyze data, forecast outcomes, and show critical insights. However, an often-overlooked aspe…

I’ve outlined some best practices for styling your Excel models to ensure they are clear, consistent, and easy to use.

What styling techniques do you use to make your spreadsheets stand out? Let’s share ideas in the comments! 👇

#Excel #Spreadsheets #DataVisualization #Productivity #ExcelTips

Aren’t they LineEdit bindings that Emacs also uses?

CTRL+k is also a favorite of mine

You still need an F64 capacity to use copilot but this allows you to use copilot on models that are in smaller capacities.