Why would you use Google Maps API? I have started this project with a single question in my mind. When should I leave my home to get in time at work and when is the lowest traffic to go out in my car. Bucharest is on the 6th place in terms of traffic jam worldwide, …
august 26, 2019
Why this analysis? A few days ago cursdeguvernare.ro, an online newspaper has published an article about the fact that 21.4% of the Romanian labor force are working abroad. The article had also the following graph from Eurostat attached. Which presents 2 very interesting cases, Romania and Cyprus on the other side. On one side is …
august 19, 2019
Python in actiune Inceputul acestui studiu a avut loc cand cautam o baza de date cu cat mai multe persoane in speranta ca voi face un jitter plot in Tableau. Intre timp a avut loc bacalaureatul si datele au fost publicate pe edu.ro la nivel de persoana. Si asa am inceput sa dezvolt o aplicatie …
iulie 24, 2019
Last week I have participated at the Tableau Conference for the first time and there I have discovered the importance of polygons in Tableau an how to use them to build a Steam Graph. So, coming back home I started to look around and find some suitable data for a simple chart. Starting from my …
iunie 27, 2019
Last days I was asked by a friend how to show in a simple way the targets (budgets). And I came with this simple line that shows 100% and a bullet the show the progress (in our case the target achievement). So, I came with a compact dashboard in Tableau that can be used on …
mai 21, 2019
Education = development Last days I was reading a paper related to the school drop-out in Romania and I was curious how much we invest in this. So, I have discovered an indicator that measures this: Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP). Indexmundi.com defines this as “General government expenditure on education (current, capital, …
mai 15, 2019
Have ever encountered any issues with the colors in Tableau? I know that Tableau comes with a pretty good color palette, but of course, that is not going to cover all your needs. So here is how you can change it: ❶ Open “Preferences.tps” file You can find the file under the following link C:\Users\_your …
mai 9, 2019
One Axis Many times I had the problem of alignment of the text when I had a bar chart with positive and negative values. Where the text was placed in the left and on the right side of the axis. Something like this: This is the problem of having one axis and Labels in the …
aprilie 9, 2019
Where this idea? Today I was checking my Strava account and I got an idea of a data visualization that can be done in Tableau. So, from here my idea of a daily status bar has been started. A status bar that can be used in target reports (daily, weekly or monthly) and it shows …
aprilie 4, 2019
Make it simple Lately, I am quite interested in how to fit as much information as possible in a small dashboard without making it too crowded. That’s why I have been tried in Tableau to replicate the KPI card from Power BI in the article “KPI cards in Tableau – an idea from Power BI“. …
martie 20, 2019