Blogs

What I read.

Voices I follow — whatever the format. Blogs mostly, though several of these people publish in more than one place. All external; links go straight to the source.

• AI in finance

  Glenn Hopper

  RoboCFO.ai

  AI implementation for finance teams — strategy, automation and governance. Skeptical about the hype in a field that has plenty of it.

  Visit ↗ RoboCFO.ai (opens in a new tab)

• FP&A

  Carolina Lago

  Tactic Financial

  AI and automation for FP&A teams. Runs the AI FP&A Accelerator, which is where a fair amount of my own AI approach evolved. ZERO AI hype.

  Visit ↗ Tactic Financial (opens in a new tab)

• Analytics

  George Mount

  Stringfest Analytics

  Analytics training that treats Excel, R and Python as one continuum rather than rival camps. Good on how analysts actually learn.

  Visit ↗ Stringfest Analytics (opens in a new tab)

• Excel LAMBDA

  Owen Price

  Flex Your Data

  Dynamic arrays and LAMBDA taken seriously — the modern formula language rather than the 1997 one with new functions bolted on.

  Visit ↗ Flex Your Data (opens in a new tab)

• Excel LAMBDA

  Jon Wittwer

  Vertex42

  Spreadsheet LAMBDAs built to a standard most LAMBDAs are not. Worth reading for the construction as much as the download.

  Visit ↗ Vertex42 (opens in a new tab)

• Data visualization

  Jonathan Schwabish

  PolicyViz

  Data visualization for people who have to persuade with it. The clearest writing I know on why a chart fails its reader.

  Visit ↗ PolicyViz (opens in a new tab)

• Excel charting

  Jon Peltier

  Peltier Tech

  Excel charting past the point where the built-in chart types give up. The reference when a chart has to do something Excel did not plan for.

  Visit ↗ Peltier Tech (opens in a new tab)

• Data visualization

  Carlos Barboza

  Spilled Graphics

  Visual design inside Excel — charts that look considered without leaving the tool the numbers already live in.

  Visit ↗ Spilled Graphics (opens in a new tab)

• Power BI

  Chris Webb

  Crossjoin

  Power Query, DAX and the Power BI engine explained from the inside. Where you go when the documentation stops short of the answer.

  Visit ↗ Crossjoin (opens in a new tab)

• Excel VBA

  Jan Karel Pieterse

  JKP Application Development Services

  Decades of Excel and VBA problems worked through properly, with the add-in engineering detail most write-ups skip.

  Visit ↗ JKP Application Development Services (opens in a new tab)

• Excel

  Jon Acampora

  Excel Campus

  Excel technique explained without assuming you already know the answer. Consistently the clearest walkthrough of a given feature.

  Visit ↗ Excel Campus (opens in a new tab)