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
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