Mike Allen
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Mike Allen
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Entrepreneur, Data Transformation and Visualization, Business Intelligence Solutions #PowerBI. Xero4PowerBI MACS CP IP3P
How difficult turning over
at dawn;
the cold!
-- Naito Joso
June 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Voting and then having a couple of beers at the Alliance works so well.
May 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Don't you hate it when you're on your first cup of coffee, you see a solution to the PowerQuery issue with Azure Tables, so you go to check it and PowerBI crashes on you (it's never done this before I swear!), I might pray and reboot 👍😀
April 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Suddenly with the addition of Copilot, the Power Platform starts to make more sense. I see Power BI!
April 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Doing Business Intelligence in Copilot Studio (AKA PVA) seems viable using Actions. Retrieving Xero Data via an Odatalink connector for executive reporting is the smoke test, and it passed 😀Publish to Teams seemed ok apart from some security issues with firewalls. #AI #BI
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is when you really know that Copilot is lying to you #copilot🤣
April 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Copilot continues to surprise. I continue to fight my way out of the black hole of licensing. I create an agent to help me, another dead end.
April 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Nothing like a 429 to elevate blood pressure!
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Azure Open AI Service, AI Foundry and Copilot offer different features. and are sometimes mutually incompatible.
April 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is the bit where the AI blames a human for the error 😂
April 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I'm testing a bot that uses PromptFlow to query Wikipedia. I thought I'd start with an easy geography question 'where is the Republic of China'. And guess who wasn't paying attention in school, gpt-4o-mini-2i! I blame it on the data it was trained on 🤣
March 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This is pretty dodgey, I'm using ChatGPT to process a file an create topics for Copilot. Copilot it too dumb to readily do this :0)
February 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'm taking some QnAMaker ChatBot structured data that I used in a chatbot a long time ago and loading it into Azure Language Studio. Chatbots have grown up in the last few years. It can now give a meaningful answer to the dreaded 'Ham Sandwich' question 😀. Nice non-sequitur 🤣
February 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
On the positive side, I have problems with my icons disappearing in the task bar in Windows 11. So I gave the job to Copilot. I must say that it would never have occured to me to fix the problem by stoping and starting the windows explorer 😀👍, and it understood my typo!
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Second test is to read the website that descibes how to build the App www.developerscantina.com/p/kernel-mem... . #RAD Response is good quality, performance quite zippy, I'll give it an #AI pass
February 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
First test is loading a document and asling for #RAG summarization. The output is markdown, needs to be converted to HTML. Output is well within #AI expectation.👍😀
February 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is the high point of the day, document loaded in memory ready for RAG. I should stop now while I'm in front :-)
February 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I thought I'd give Copilot a simple technical task, but it can't get past the first hurdle and the grammar is pretty poor as well. I mean, not that I'm that fussed about good grammar, but WTF it mean?
January 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I haven't had one of these for so long it's like having an old friend over for dinner 😀
January 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Ok #PowerBI people, I'm try to get My Workspace to move to a Pro License, it's currently on Trial, but I need to remove this staging data warehouse, but it doesn't want to go! How do I fix this?
December 15, 2024 at 11:23 PM
This is lovely test data, original and interesting, with doohickeys. I dream about stuff like this 😁
November 13, 2024 at 11:02 PM
I've just joined BlueSky. Hi Everyone, this looks like it will be fun. Here's a meerkat we saw at Australia Zoo last week
November 12, 2024 at 6:50 AM