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Join us as we celebrate 30 years in business

Posted by Andy Brown on 15 November 2023

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Wise Owl Training. Much has happened since we started work in a basement in South Manchester!

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Miscellaneous > Nostalgia

Wordle in Excel VBA

Posted by Andrew Gould on 31 January 2022

Have you played Wordle yet? You should, it's great! We're a bit obsessed with it at Wise Owl so Andrew, Andy and Sam have all been working their own versions of the game in VBA, Python and Power BI(!) respectively. Check out this quick intro to Andrew's VBA version.

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VBA macros > General

Playing Wordle in Python

Posted by Andy Brown on 31 January 2022

A modest Python program to mimic the popular online Wordle game, using a Tkinter form and some basic classes.

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Python > Progamming

A Wordle version of Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 January 2022

Can you play Wordle in Power BI? Of course you can! This blog explains how you can get Power BI to do something which it is eminently unsuited to do!

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Power BI > General

Wise Owl versions of Wordle in Power BI, Python and Excel

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 January 2022

The Wordle bandwagon is rolling fast downhill, but we managed to board it. This blog shows one Wise Owl's current stats, and links to our Power BI, Python and Excel VBA versions of this web-based word game.

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Miscellaneous > Random musings

Power Toys: tools to tweak the behaviour of Windows

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 January 2022

You can use these hidden gems to reassign or disable keys on your keyboard, detect pixel colours in a website, display a Windows short-cut key guide … and much more!

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Hardware/software > Windows

Our advanced Power BI course has split into two!

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 January 2022

We have launched two new courses: a two-day Advanced Power BI (Reports) course for report authors, and a two-day advanced Power BI (Data) course for data modellers.

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Power BI > General

Looping over rows and columns for a Pandas dataframe

Posted by Andy Brown on 17 December 2021

This blog shows you various ways in which you can loop over the columns of a pandas dataframe, and also explains how to loop over the rows of a dataframe (together with why you should avoid doing this!).

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Python > Progamming

Creating executable files from Python programs using pyinstaller

Posted by Andy Brown on 17 December 2021

A summary of how to package up your Python program (including any referenced modules) into a single executable file.

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Python > Installation

A comparison of Python and C#

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 November 2021

Ten reasons why Python is a better programmng language than C# (and most other languages), as well as two reasons why it might not be.

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Python > General Visual C# > General

An infographic celebrating 10 years of video tutorials on YouTube

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 November 2021

To celebrate the 10th birthday of our video channel we've created this infographic, showing for example that the number of hours spent watching our videos would have covered 2,949,152 views of the first episode of Squid Game.

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Training > Video training

Using the CalendarAuto function effectively in Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 November 2021

This blog shows how to generate a table which includes not only all of the dates in your data model, but also a range of aggregator columns such as financial year and month name for reporting purposes.

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Power BI > Dates and calendars

What is SQLCMD mode, and how can you use it?

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 November 2021

You can use SQLCMD mode to parameterise the connection, database name, table name and select columns for a query - and much more besides, as this blog explains.

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SQL > SQL programming

A Power Automate flow to send Xmas gift emails automatically

Posted by Andy Brown on 18 November 2021

Tired of doing repetitive tasks at Christmas? This blog shows you how to create a Power Automate Desktop flow to send emails out to your nearest and dearest programmatically, with each email including instructions on how they should use the gifts they've been given.

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Power Automate Desktop > Case studies

Introducing Power Automate Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 18 November 2021

Power Automate Desktop allows you to automate any common sequence of tasks that you perform in Windows, and has the potential to change your working life. So what is it?

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Power Automate Desktop > General

International Keyboard Short-Cut Day 2021 - 10 Windows key short-cuts

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

To commemorate the rather dubious International Keyboard Short-Cut Day 2021 (the first Wednesday in November of each year, apparently), we offer the 10 Windows key short-cuts which will save you the most time.

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Hardware/software > Windows

Using personal bookmarks to persist filters

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

In Power BI Service you can now create personal bookmarks to retain any changes you've made to filtering for a report.

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Power BI > Bookmarks and filters

Persistent report filters in Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

Consumers of your reports can alter filters, but you can change an option to prevent these changes persisting for other users.

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Power BI > Bookmarks and filters

Sharing Power BI Reports using Teams

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

You can add a tab for a Power BI report within a Teams channel, and also share a report from Power BI Service within Teams - this blog shows you how to do both these things!

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Power BI > General

Reading Outlook emails and downloading attachments using Python

Posted by Andy Brown on 08 October 2021

This blog shows how you can use Python to loop over all of the emails in a folder in Outlook, saving the attachments for each to your hard disk.

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Python > Progamming

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Wise Owl Blogs - Home (page 14 of 25)

Join us as we celebrate 30 years in business

Wordle in Excel VBA

Playing Wordle in Python

A Wordle version of Power BI

Wise Owl versions of Wordle in Power BI, Python and Excel

Power Toys: tools to tweak the behaviour of Windows

Our advanced Power BI course has split into two!

Looping over rows and columns for a Pandas dataframe

Creating executable files from Python programs using pyinstaller

A comparison of Python and C#

An infographic celebrating 10 years of video tutorials on YouTube

Using the CalendarAuto function effectively in Power BI

What is SQLCMD mode, and how can you use it?

A Power Automate flow to send Xmas gift emails automatically

Introducing Power Automate Desktop

International Keyboard Short-Cut Day 2021 - 10 Windows key short-cuts

Using personal bookmarks to persist filters

Persistent report filters in Power BI

Sharing Power BI Reports using Teams

Reading Outlook emails and downloading attachments using Python

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