anamilana

Joined: August 12, 2020
Articles: 26

Peru

Your Guide to a Peruvian Restaurant’s Menu – By a Real Peruvian!

Having lived abroad for over 10 years, the homesickness for my country’s amazing, delicious and prize-winning cuisine always led me to search for Peruvian restaurants wherever I went. We moved to Madrid this year, and just two weeks after our…

anamilana
29 March 2024

Data, Skills

Creating a simple dashboard in the Web version of Tableau Public

As you might already know, Tableau Desktop (ie. the application you install on your PC) is not free, especially if you are using it within an organisation (eg. school, university or work). To use this version you need a paid…

anamilana
10 September 2023

Books

Charity Book Collection: Let’s Get Peru Reading in English

This post was last updated on 8oct23. Hello and thank you for reading this post! I’m Ana, originally from Peru, though I’ve been living in London for the past 10 years. Even though the UK is now my home, I…

anamilana
21 August 2023

Data, Skills

Learn by doing: getting started with data vizualization

Many learnings in life are akin to learning to ride a bicycle: you have to try it out yourself in order to learn it! Sure, you can read books and theory about how to ride a bike, but without any…

anamilana
7 August 2023
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Skills

Tableau Concepts Crossword

Tableau is a great data visualization tool with lots of enthusiasts around the world. Most of us Tableau lovers are keen on learning new tricks and keeping our Tableau skills up to date. There is indeed a lot to learn…

anamilana
27 September 2022

Data

Visualizing the UK’s Inflation and Fuel Prices

This year we’ve seen lots of news about the alarming increases on fuel prices and the growing inflation rates. Since media headlines can sometimes be somewhat exaggerated, I wanted to look at the real numbers myself and draw my own…

anamilana
4 September 2022

Data, Skills

Getting all the Calculated Fields from a Tableau workbook?

Have you ever needed to have all your Calculated fields in one single place? Or have you needed to know which calculated fields feed into which? As Tableau workbooks grow in complexity, it can be difficult to know what each…

anamilana
11 July 2022

Books, Data

Visualizing the Books from Between The Covers

When it comes to finding my next read, I can be quite picky about it! I’ll usually research the latest best sellers and different book-award lists (eg. the Booker Prize Shortlist/Longlist of the year), and will also look for reviews…

anamilana
26 June 2022

Data, Women Empowerment

Women in the World’s Banknotes

As a keen supporter of gender equality, I’m always looking for ways to empower women. I was recently wondering why there are so few women portrayed in history (hint: the book Invisible Women helps explain this), and why they don’t…

anamilana
4 June 2022

Coding, Data

Setting up your Python workspace for data analysis

So you want to learn python to get into data analysis, but don’t know where to start? There are lots of new components and concepts that come with learning python. Some of the common starting questions are: “How do I…

anamilana
30 January 2022