Data

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

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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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

Coding, Data

How to learn Python for Data Analysis

Python has rapidly become one of the most popular and versatile programming languages in the world, being particularly in demand for Data Science and Machine Learning. If you want to learn Python to get started into Data Analysis, I strongly…

anamilana
14 November 2021

Books, Data

Book Locations from Around the World

I was curious to know where were the main locations of the stories from the books I’ve read so far, so I started to collate them into a list. Then the data analyst in me said “Why not plot them…

anamilana
18 July 2021