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
From where this idea? Lately, I am experiencing other data visualization tools and having a long history with Excel and Microsoft I have decided to look into Power BI. Currently, I am not able yet to express any opinion about Power BI … but shortly … I find it user-friendly and quite similar with what can …
martie 11, 2019
If you don’t know what can you do with your data or you are unsure of the chosen method. You better have a look at The Data Visualization Catalogue. The Data Visualization Catalogue is a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a library of different information visualization types. In his portfolio, there is not …
februarie 7, 2019
Just a few months ago I have started learning Python and the first project was building a scrapping py script for the earthquake database in Romania. From there I have completed the course from Dataquest.io “Python for Data Science” and I learn a lot of new things. Along with this, I have started to learn …
ianuarie 23, 2019
Daily inspiration for your shop managers Studies and our experience shows the fact that when you have data in your hand, you and your people will get better decisions. So, why not make available this at any levels in your company? Embed IoT in Tableau This is very easy taking the fact that Tableau can have …
ianuarie 10, 2019