We occasionally see reading time estimates in online news, blog sites, and even in promotional contents. This estimate is important because it tells the reader upfront how much the content may take to read. There are several extensive studies done internationally (in English speaking countries) that demonstrate that people tend to read messages/contents up to […]
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Waffle Charts (3 methods + bonus)
Certainly! Here’s a revised version of your paragraph: Waffle charts might be familiar to you. These charts are characterized by small squares within a grid, providing a straightforward representation of ratios. This concept is akin to that of pie charts, area charts, or treemaps—the choice ultimately hinges on the target audience and personal taste. Waffle […]
User Stories and Wireframes
User stories or scenarios are the suggested and preferred way for most agile development teams to capture software features in bite-sized morsels. It helps to continuously focus on the feature from end-user perspective (targets user-experience, persona) and the situation (i.e. the need for that feature) and expected behavior (i.e. what the user is trying to […]
Using Directions & Travel APIs With Excel, Python. 2/2
This is the second part of the getting directions and travel info using Bing Maps. The first part shows how to do it in Python (check it out here), and in this part, I’ll share some tips on how to get the same info from within Excel without writing any VBA code! To get the […]
Using Directions & Travel APIs with Excel, Python. 1/2
In this blog, I’ll share tips on how to consume RESTful APIs for maps. Specifically, getting a location point info, getting distance and travel times between two points, and even turn-by-turn driving directions. With the techniques, we can also get walking and transit mode of travel info. I’ll be leveraging Bing Maps APIs as they’re […]
Decomposing data in PowerBI
A decomposition tree visual or a widget is very helpful in understanding cause and effect of data. It gives an easy-to-view insight to the underlying data. Suppose we have a fact table of raw data of products sold, revenue, place and time of sale, etc. etc. etc. Every month, year, product, country repeat as they […]
Music Mixing with Python
Recently, I accidently encountered a new online service called EarSketch for music creation and mixing using Python. I had to of course check it out in more detail and was very impressed with the simplicity and effort put into the overall UI, API, and technical documentation. They are definitely worth checking out! Kudos to EarSketch […]
Word Cloud III – Python & Excel together
In two my earlier blogs, I shared two methods & codes in Excel and Python on how to create Word Clouds from any text or document. You can find them here: How To Find The Most Occurring Words In A Document? (python) and Creating Word Cloud Accurately And Easily In Excel (Excel) Now, I’ll turn […]
Be the right kind of ‘Mean’
No, I’m not talking about stingy, spiteful kind…rather mathematical mean: arithmetic and statistical means to be exact. In fact, a handful of mean functions and applications. In most common situations, when we say ‘Mean’ even the statisticians mean the Average…or the arithmetic mean we all know since early childhood. We continue use it because while […]
A Very Simple Etch A Sketch Type Program (Python)
Here’s a fun, little application using Python. In this post, I demonstrate drawing lines using just the arrow keys on the keyboard (up/down/left/right). The drawing direction is determined by the arrow key pressed as shown in the clip below: With each keypress a line is drawn in the direction of the arrow head, which is […]