An innocent error?
Here’s something I thought was rather clever from Innocent Drinks. It fooled me when I first saw ‘Image not found’, as I thought it was a genuine error. Then I read what was beneath, and it became obvious it wasn’t….
I’ve just cleared my student loan
I have some celebratory news blended in with a rant… Today, I phoned up the Student Loans Company and paid off my entire student loan debt — the remaining balance stood just south of £16,000. I began my university degree…
The Billion Rows Excel Challenge
Back in December 2021, How Fast is Fast Data Load in Power Query? demonstrated how long it took to load varying-sized datasets into the Data Model with and without Power Query’s Fast Data Load enabled. What’s changed since then? Well,…
When England play, expect disruption
It’s interesting how many events have been gatecrashed by England matches at Euro 2024. Whether it’s… ⚽️ The Killers concert ⚽️ Kings of Leon concert ⚽️ Theatre play ⚽️ Wimbledon match How dare people celebrate something that has nothing to…
I’ve just discovered a new chart, and it’s well-suited to politics
Here’s a chart Excel needs: a cartogram. It’s a type of map that represents geographic regions with shapes sized according to a specific data variable rather than their land area, which can affect the interpretation of a result. If you’ve…
Clear values in a range — why the keyboard shortcut inconsistency?
In Excel for Mac, when you select a range of values and then press Backspace, they are all cleared. The same behaviour occurs in Excel for Web. However, in Excel for Windows, it’s a different story. Pressing Backspace only clears…
