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Wise Owl's monthly (ish) news tweet | Issue 68 - June 2023

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Comparing ChatGPT and Bard - which AI tool should you be using?

Following Open AI's release of ChatGPT 4, Google have launched its own AI tool called Bard. We've compared the two tools for availability/cost, speed and quality of results to see which one you should be using (if either). On a side-note, it's reassuring to see that AI tools don't get everything right: sometimes they can't even multiply correctly ...

Do you program in SQL, Python, VBA, Office or JQuery/JavaScript? So do ChatGPT and Bard!

To save you doing it, we've compared the coding skills of ChatGPT and Bard for writing SQL queries, Python functions, VBA programs, Office Script functions and JQuery code snippets. You can review how each AI tool can help you write your favourite language, or jump straight to our conclusions.

The new Power BI update sees (finally!) the roll-out of Azure Maps, along with other changes.

The May 2023 Power BI update sees a number of changes, but the main one is surely the release from preview of Azure Maps (there's also a new Optimize ribbon, a facility to use measures for data labels and some other changes).

The results of last month's Taylor Swift word search (including your vote for best TS song)

Last month we wondered what the intersection was between Taylor Swift fans and Wise Owl newsletter readers; it turned out that the answer is ... not great (who knew?). Out of only 8 correct entries to last month's word search competition our sorting hat picked out Laura Krischik's name as the winner - congratulations to her. You can see the answer to the competition - along with the entrants' votes for the best Taylor Swift song ever - here.

Is this the most impenetrable Excel formula ever, or are there even worse monsters where you work?

While browsing forums (like you do) we found what we think is the most impenetrable Excel formula in genuine use: in its 1,860 characters it combines functions including IF, AND, ADDRESS, OFFSET, MATCH and INDIRECT. Unless you can do better?

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Wise Owl's monthly (ish) news tweet | Issue 68 - June 2023

Comparing ChatGPT and Bard - which AI tool should you be using?

Do you program in SQL, Python, VBA, Office or JQuery/JavaScript? So do ChatGPT and Bard!

The new Power BI update sees (finally!) the roll-out of Azure Maps, along with other changes.

The results of last month's Taylor Swift word search (including your vote for best TS song)

Is this the most impenetrable Excel formula ever, or are there even worse monsters where you work?

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