Comments on: PowerPivot training

By: Ken Puls

Ken Puls — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:08:50 +0000

What are you talking about? I came to visit you last time, it’s your turn. ;)

And yes, I saw your post on the ashes. Only one problem with it… I don’t have enough context on cricket to really get any meaning from the data. Even PowerPivot isn’t going to change that. But it LOOKS cool!

By: dougaj4

dougaj4 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:58:54 +0000

Analyse the latest cricket tests in Australia?

Why would anyone want to do that? ;)

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:43:24 +0000

Indeed they do. I would be interested to see what numbers they get in what is a very marginal product/tool at this point.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:54:23 +0000

Makes our Excel devs confs remarkably good value!
Maybe they were expecting gbp/eur parity again.

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:38:14 +0000

I notice that the London event is £1,100 per delegate, whereas Frankfurt is €1,100, which at today’s rate of 1.185 Euros to the pound means that UK pay an extra €200. This habit of just charging the same number for pounds is a shady practice IMO, very unfair.

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:54:19 +0000

You’re an old skinflint Puls, you expect me to travel, but you won’t.

Did you see my blog post on using PP to analyse the recent cricket Tests in Australia?

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:51:19 +0000

I did think about it, but a) I may be away, b) it is and expensive, c) their Excel is somewhat lacking as I feel the book attests. I was hoping to do a PowerPivot evening in a pub one evening in Feb, but my colleague who was looking to arrange the pub has been unsuccessful (something called Valentine’s day seems to get in the way), so maybe we will do it in March.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:30:13 +0000

Sorry Hiran I cleared out the spam bucket before I noticed. Seems if you mention training in a blog post you disappear under a deluge of link spam for anything from porn actor training to SEO training to dog training collars.

By: Ken Puls

Ken Puls — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:02:22 +0000

Too bad the training isn’t web based. A little far to travel from Canada to get there.

Definitely working with PowerPivot here. Great piece of software that will add some real power to our reporting for certain.

By: Hiran de Silva

Hiran de Silva — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:28:02 +0000

Ooops, my comment disappeared into oblivion …
Got the book by these guys (and all the others too). I would add that learning PP is a ‘do’ rather than a learn (so not attending), and having a real ‘user’ need for slice and dice analysis helps.
Yes, hoping to use PP as an add-on bonus to next project.
Yes, not much programmability in v1.