Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts

5 Jun 2016

Month-calendar for June 2016 in Excel

#56 Month-calendar for June 2016 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for June, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2016 and a 2016-year-planner. Event of this month is UEFA Euro 2016 France, hold on 10/6 - 10/7. Unfortunately the Netherlands did not qualify, so this time I was not so motivated to make a new version of Match for this Eurocup, or a new Excel for an office-pool, like I did for last FIFA Worldcup. But of course you can do it by yourself, by adapting these 2 files (Access and Excel):

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/match-access-app-to-track-world-cup.html

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/pool-for-betting-2014-world-cup-soccer.html

For a very nice Excel with a EURO 2016 tracker, which automatically calculates the points, who go to next round etc (by using formulas), see:

http://www.excely.com/football/euro-2016-schedule.shtml




fig.1: Month calendar 201606


Downloads:

https://goo.gl/BA0cJU







2 May 2016

Month-calendar for May 2016 in Excel

#55 Month-calendar for May 2016 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for May, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2016 and a 2016-year-planner. Event of this month is Roland Garros, the French Open ATP tennis tournament, 22/5-5/6.




 fig.1: month-calendar May 2016




Downloads:

https://goo.gl/q3lwNW





2 Apr 2016

Month-calendar for April 2016 in Excel

#54 Month-calendar for April 2016 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for April, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2016 and a 2016-year-planner. Event of this month is 'El Clasico', Barcelona vs Real Madrid, Sat. April 2, in the stadium of Barca, Nou Camp, in which there will be a 'remembrance-mosaic' with the Barca-shirt with number 14´, the number of Johan Cruyff, the Dutch legendary player and coach of this club, who died last March 24. Cruyff was besides for his football also famous for his oracle-like aphorisms, like "every disavantage has its advantage" and his logic like : I do not believe. In Spain  all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the field, and if it would work, it would always be a draw." , see:


--

--
Fig.1: calendar April 2016

12 Mar 2016

Month-calendar for March2016 in Excel

#53 Month-calendar for March2016 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for March2016, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2016 and a 2016-year-planner. Event of this month is la Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2016 (in Spain). For more info about this event , see:





fig.1: calendar March 2016


Downloads:

29 Feb 2016

20Minutos Blog Awards 2015 Statistics with Excel and R

#52: 20Minutos Blog Awards 2015 Statistics with Excel and R

NB: Si prefieres leer este blog en español, recuerda que con Google-Blogger (el herramiento usado para este blog) es posible traducir este blog de ingles a español. El 'Google Traductor' esta en el menu a la derecha.

The Spanish newspaper 20Minutos, organizes the 10th edition of its Blog Awards ("Premios 20Blogs"), with 7652 participating blogs from (mostly) Spanish speaking bloggers. Until 2nd of March everybody with a 20Minutos account can vote 20 times, one time for every blog-category, and the blog with the most votes wins the public prize, although the jury decides who will be the winner of the 1st prize. And like last year, I'm participating with this blog. 20Minutos allows you to promote your own blog to attract votes in the Blog Awards, so: if you like my blog, you can vote for it here:

http://lablogoteca.20minutos.es/excel-ejemplos-para-tu-trabajo-deportes-y-mas-50022/0/

To do so, you have to register here:

http://www.20minutos.es/usuarios/registro/

But enough self-promotion, let´s start with what this blog is about: MS Excel. For the 2014-blog-competition I made an Excel with some statistics, see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com/2015/02/excel-statistics-for-20minutos-blog.html

and for this year's edition I did the same, but this time I made other statistics, and not only with Excel but also with R. My idea was to get into 1 Excel all the blog-records (with data like URL, Author, Title, Description and Category in which blog is participating), and to get all this data, I used the (free) tool https://www.import.io/ for web-scraping the 20Min. website for the blog-contest: http://lablogoteca.20minutos.es/premios-20blogs/

For more info about this great data-extract tool, see e.g.:

http://www.interhacktives.com/2014/03/06/scrape-data-without-coding-step-step-tutorial-import-io/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lHaaAWGXc&feature=youtu.be

The result of the import had some 300 duplicate records, but with Excel it's easy to eliminate duplicates, see e.g.:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Filter-for-unique-values-or-remove-duplicate-values-ccf664b0-81d6-449b-bbe1-8daaec1e83c2

To this dataset I added some extra calculated fields like country of blog (only posible if domain-name of website has a country-code like "es" (Spain) and blog-platform (Blogger, Wordpress etc), see fig.2a.
NB: My (V)lookup-table with the mapping country-code - country I got from here:
http://www.web-wise-wizard.com/internet-dns-web/internet-iddd-country-codes.html

And with this dataset, I made the statistics which you can see in the figures 2b, 3 etc below, using pivot-tables and pivot-charts. But before getting into more detail about these stats I present in fig.1 a Word Cloud for which I used R (the script is included in the Download-section below). I used R to make the world cloud (instead of using a site like http://www.wordle.net/) to learn a bit about R, and because of it's extensive Text Mining capabilities. Some sites which helped me with this are:

https://eight2late.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/a-gentle-introduction-to-text-mining-using-r/

http://www.webmining.cl/2012/07/text-mining-de-twitter-usando-r/

To make this word cloud, I used the column Description (of a blog), a 'memo-field'.
Not suprisingly, the most used word is... 'Blog', and then comes 'World', 'Life'', 'Ínformation'.

.


fig.1 Word Cloud of Blog-descriptions of all blogs participating in 20Min. Blog-contest.





fig.2a: Data imported in Excel from 20Min. (formula-columns which are not interesting for user are hidden).



fig.2b: total Blogs per category'.

NB: Note that the totals in this chart correspond almost 100% to the ones on the 20Min.site (http://lablogoteca.20minutos.es/premios-20blogs/ ), as it should, but with a difference of 1 (in my stats, category Viajes has 404 records, not 405 as on the 20Min. site, I wander if that is because of an error in my data-extraction from this site or maybe an error by 20Min.?)




fig.3: Total Blogs per Platform

NB: Google's Blogger (domain Blogspot) appear more popular then Wordpress.




fig.4: Total Blogs per Country

NB: for those of you who have never heard of Tokelau: this (is)land offers a 1 year free (tk) domain (for everyone, so not only for the people of TK), after that you have to pay, or they close your site, which happened to my site, http://www.eigersoftware.tk ..





fig.5: Total Blogs per Author


NB:
- this pivot-table report filters authors with >= 7 blogs, for how you can do this filtering, see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12209841/filtering-pivot-table-columns-only-count-if

- 'Grupo LM' has a total of 28 blogs in the competition, and I found out that this is a company which pays bloggers if they send them a blog-post. To see all 28 blogs, double-click on measure-value '28' in the pivot-table, and then Excels opens a new worksheet with the 28 records.
I wonder why the blog-authors who work for LM did not sign up for the blog-contest with their own name.

And to conclude this post, I´d like to say good luck ('mucho suerte') to all my fellow-bloggers in the "Premios 20Blogs" Blog Awards.
BTW: To decide on which blog to vote, I also searched for Éxcel' in my Excel and found several blogs, e.g. this excelent blog, from Argentina (on which I voted):

http://excelmascerca.blogspot.com.es/


Downloads:


#Mirror 1: Google Drive (zip file with Excel and R-script files):

https://goo.gl/ZAf54w


#Mirror 2: Microsoft Onedrive (Excel file):

http://1drv.ms/1REIjjC


#Mirror 3: Scribd.com (PDF file):

https://www.scribd.com/doc/301523553/20minutos-blogcompetition-2015-statistics-with-excel-and-r



2 Feb 2016

Month-calendar for February 2016 in Excel

#51 Month-calendar for February 2016 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for February 2016, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2016 and a 2016-year-planner. Event of this month is Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games (YOG), the Wintergames for children from 15-18 years. For more info about this event , see:

http://www.lillehammer2016.com/



fig,1 Calendar for month February 2016


Downloads:

https://goo.gl/Ap3yxl



10 Jan 2016

Timesheet for worked hours 2016 and PowerView report with stats

#50 Timesheet for worked hours 2016 and PowerView report with stats

 This post is about the new version (V3) of the Excel I made  to track your worked hours, the "Timesheet 2016". For my post about the previous version (V2), see:

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/timesheet-for-worked-hours-2015-v3-with.html

Timesheet-V3 does not have any new features comparing with V2, the only difference is that V3 has the 2016-calendar (V2 was for 2015). So in this post I won´t repeat the explanation about the timesheet, for this see the post of Timesheet-V2 (2015).

But there is one thing new for the 2016-Timesheet: I made a new Excel with a PowerView report with statistics about worked days and holidays at year-, month- and week-level. The Excel with the Timesheet also has a worksheet with statistics, but these are using the 'traditional' pivot-tables, while the new Excel with PowerView uses PowerPivot Tables which has some new nice features which I´ll show below.

To show how this Timesheet works, I made a demo in which I registered check-in and check-out times for all (working-)days in 2016, and also the days off (vacations, sick, personal days).
If you want to use this Excel to track your worked hours, you should delete all my input for this demo (green columns in sheet-2: 'Tabla').

In fig.1 you can see the Excel with the PowerView report.
NB: 
- this report shows Month-stat. for Dec. and Week-stat. for week 50 (which starts on Monday (Spanish: Lunes) 22 (Dec.) (see filter-pane, to the right of report-canvas)
- the report-titles are generated, and have some Spanish:
'por' = by
 'y' = and

And in fig.2 you can see the Excel with the Timesheet-data (fig.2) and -statistics (fig.3).

In the rest of this post, the figures are from the Excel with the PowerView report.



fig.1 Excel with Powerview-report for Timesheet




fig.2 : Excel with Timesheet (table)



fig.3 : Excel with Timesheet statistics


In fig.4 you can see that if you filter in the bar-chart Hours Worked per Month for 1 month , e.g. Dec., then also the other report-element at year-level, the pie-chart Days Off, is filtered for this month.


fig.4: filtering in report (month = Dec.)


In fig.5 you can see the result after I clicked in fig.1 in pie-chart Days Off on the blue-part of the pie-chart, labeled Code2: 'VA' (= vacations) and in fig.6-7 you can see how to drill-down in this pie-chart to Code3: VA0 and VA1 (VA0: vacations-days of last year, VA1: vacations-days of actual year).


fig.5: Pie-chart Days Off (not worked)





fig.6: Pie-chart Days Off , config. drill-down Code2-> Code3 (see field: Color)


fig.7: Pie-chart Days Off , result drill-down Code2-> Code3


To get the data from the Timesheet-Excel (worksheet-2, data-table 'Tabla2')  into the PowerView Report-Excel I used PowerQuery (see fig. 8) and I imported the data in the PowerPivot datamodel. After that I added some DAX-formulas in this datamodel, e.g. to calculate the worked time in hours, with decimals (in the Timesheet-Excel, the time is registered in minutes):

HoursWorked := ROUND([Ttotal3]/60;2)

and to get some more 'friendly names' for fields and field-values in the pivot-table, and in English rather than Spanish, I used e.g. this formula:

IsWorkingDay:=IF([EsLaborable]=1;"Y";"N")

And in the PowerPivot datamodel I also renamed some fields to more 'friendly names' and marked some fields as 'not visible in client', so that the final-user (you) only has the fields which are usefull in pivot tables (e.g. WorkedHours, but not 'Notes').



fig.8: PowerQuery to import Timesheet data  

For the resulting PowerPivot datamodel, see fig.9-10.


fig.9: PowerPivot datamodel with DAX-formula

--
fig.10: PowerPivot datamodel with friendly field-names and hidden fields


As you can see, the new Timesheet statistics, with PowerView, are better then the old ones. Some people call Excel with the PowerBI-plugins (PowerPivot, PowerView, PowerQuery and PowerMap) 'Power Excel', and say 'Power Excel' is the best tool for all kinds of data-analysis, which results in an interesting discussion, see:

http://www.powerpivotpro.com/2015/06/no-more-apologies-excel-is-the-worlds-best-data-tool-period/


Some references: 

* For a (free) course about data-analysis with MS Excel, by my old university, TU Delft (Delft University of Technoloy), see:

https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-analysis-business

* For a video with more details about how to create a timesheet with Excel, see:

https://youtu.be/vYdHi2m4IgE

*For a good video and blog about MS Excel and Powerview (and more Microsoft software), see:

http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/blog/s389/power-view.htm

https://youtu.be/8PUmuud7TYg



Downloads:

NB: The Excel with the Timesheet-data, which is input for the Excel with the PowerView-report, should be in this dir:

C:\tmp\zzz\TimeSheetWorkedHours_2016_DEMO_R1.xlsx


#Mirror 1: Google Drive (zip file with 2 Excel files):

zip-file with 2 Excel files:
https://goo.gl/OQFI0j

PDF:
https://goo.gl/23LLQs


#Mirror 2: Microsoft Onedrive (1 Excel file: Timesheet):

NB: this site has 'Excel-Online', so you can view my Excel-doc if you don´t have MS Excel on your PC

http://1drv.ms/1mO95vj


#Mirror 3: Scribd.com (1 PDF file: PowerView report):

https://es.scribd.com/doc/295022256/Excel-TimeSheet-WorkedHours-2016-with-PowerPivot-report-for-Stats











2 Jan 2016

2016 Year calendar and planner in Excel

#49 2016 Year calendar and planner in Excel

In this post the new year calendar and planner for 2016 and the month-calendar for January, see fig.1-3. For the Spanish readers: the calendar includes all holidays in Madrid-capital, so it´s the 'calendario laboral 2016', see:

https://sede.madrid.es/portal/site/tramites/menuitem.1f3361415fda829be152e15284f1a5a0/?vgnextoid=4366addba8200510VgnVCM1000000b205a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=239be59bdb789210VgnVCM100000171f5a0aRCRD

or this site, which also has a year-calender (in PDF):

http://www.calendarioslaborales.com/calendario-laboral-madrid-2016.htm

My calendar also has the (ISO) week-numbers (week 1 is the week with the 1st Thursday of the year). And it is multi-language (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Chinese).
NB: For more about the Korean and Chinese variant, see earlier 'Calendar-posts' (see my blog-posts with tag/label 'Calendar' at the end of this post).


The graphic I used in this Excel, this time about the new year 2016, which is the year of the monkey in the Chinese horoscope, is from this site :

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/chinese-new-year-monkey-year-symbol-calendar-red-figures-illustration-53158214.jpg

And for more info about the Monkey- (leap) year 2016, see:

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/christmas/chinese_new_year2016.htm

Happy 2016!



fig.1 Month Calendar January 2016



fig.2: Year Calendar 2016



Downloads:

#Mirror 1: Google Drive (zip file with  Excel and PDF files):




#Mirror 2: Microsoft Onedrive (1 Excel file):
NB: this site has 'Excel-Online', so you can view my Excel-doc if you don´t have MS Excel on your PC

http://1drv.ms/1MMB2sr


#Mirror 3: Scribd.com (1 PDF file):

https://es.scribd.com/doc/294441979/2016-Year-Calendar-and-Planner

7 Dec 2015

Month-calendar for December 2015 in Excel

#47 Month-calendar for December 2015 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for December 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner. Event of this month is Carrera de las Empresas 2015 Madrid (13/12), a 10K run, a competition between (teams) of companies, so an event where work and sports meet like in this blog. For more info about this event , see:

http://www.carreradelasempresas.com/

http://www.expansion.com/actualidadeconomica/2015/11/02/5633741b46163f905f8b45b5.html



                                          fig.1 Dec.2015 calendar


Downloads:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BywxxSJoaUYxQVdFeFpESDlhRUU/view?usp=sharing

20 Nov 2015

SQL Saturday Madrid 2015 statistics with PowerPivot and PowerQuery

#46: SQL Saturday Madrid 2015 statistics with PowerPivot and PowerQuery

On 21-11-2015, so tomorrow, Saturday, I go to this event: SQL Saturday Madrid 2015, #SQLSatMadrid, where several Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence (BI) MVP´s give some talks, for more information see:

http://www.sqlsaturday.com/459/eventhome.aspx

and for the time-schedule:

http://www.sqlsaturday.com/459/sessions/schedule.aspx


As you can see, there is a total of 27 courses, in 7 time-blocks of 1 hour, in 4 rooms, and for each course the schedule shows this data:
  • Course name
  • MVP name
  • Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
  • Theme (Big Data, BI, Cloud, DBA), indicated by cell-color
  • Language (most are in Spanish but when the course-name is in English , I guess the course is in English)
To ´warm up´ for the sessions about PowerBI, I converted this schedule in a pivot-table and graph, using Power Pivot and Power Query, see fig.1 for the end-result.



 fig.1 Pivot table Courses SQLSat.



To make this Excel, first I copied the Schedule (PDF) to Excel (export to Excel in the tool Nitro PDF) and did some cleaning (delete rows with non-schedule data and 'undo' of cell-merges and delete empty columns), see file 'SQLSaturday459_Madrid2015_Schedule_20151120_v2.xlsx' in Downloads below.
And then I made a 2nd Excel with the statistics, and with PowerQuery I loaded the schedule data from Excel-1, see file 'SQLSaturday459_Madrid2015_Schedule_Statistics' in Downloads and fig.2-3 for some of the steps in the Power Query formula language 'M'. An example of an 'M-formula':

= Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value3", "Level_1", each Text.Contains([Value], "Beginner"))

which looks in Excel-1 if in a cell there is the word 'Beginner' (level of course) and if so, sets the value in the Level-1 column to True (and if not to False), for more details of this formula, see:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt253324.aspx





fig.2: Power Query import




 fig.3 Power Query formula to Unpivot all columns (Room 1-4') except 1st column ('Time')

And after the Power Query import I did some other things in Excel-2 like adding a Time-block column and Course-Level-column, hiding come columns etc.) to facilitate creating the final pivot-table.
BTW: The Course-Level column I made manually because this information in Excel-1 is not part of the cell (string) value, but color-coded. But probably this could also be automated (so the conversion from cell-color to a (string-)value, see e.g.:

http://excelribbon.tips.net/T010780_Colors_in_an_IF_Function.html

I keep it short now, tomorrow I have to get up early, the event starts at 08:30, and that for a Saturday..


Downloads:

https://goo.gl/xVUdoo



4 Nov 2015

Month-calendar for November 2015 in Excel

#44 Month-calendar for November 2015 in Excel


In this post the new month-calendar for November 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner. Theme of this month is the Science Week, 'la Semana de la Ciencia', in Madrid (2/11-15/11), where universities etc. open their doors to the public, see:


http://www.madrimasd.org/semanaciencia/2015/


Last year one of the activites of the Science Week was a guided walk in a garden with Bonsai-trees, for some photos I made, see:

https://picasaweb.google.com/103278159654062440102/Bozai

And if your are interested in some science about data-visualization and the important role of Exel in this, as I have tried to show in several posts in this blog (with label: 'Data visualization'), see:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/the-science-of-visualization/



--fig.1: Nov. 2015 Calendar

Download:

https://goo.gl/pJdDcd

1 Oct 2015

Month-calendar for October 2015 in Excel

#43 Month-calendar for October 2015 in Excel


In this post the new month-calendar for October 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner. Theme of this month is the Worldcup Rugby (until 31/10), see:


http://www.rugbyworldcup.com

The quote of this month, comparing soccer and rugby, I found on this poster:

https://www.facebook.com/veitchyonsport/photos/a.566695656700484.1073741828.203262656377121/692113720825343/?type=1&theater


It will be interesting to see how the teams who play against New Zealand will respond to their intimidating Maori war-dance, the famous 'Haka' (which until now worked well for them: in the Worldcup the 'All Blacks' currently are leading in their pool).  So this Worldcup no 'Waka Waka', but the 'Haka', for some nice videos, see :

https://youtu.be/GyZEUeAoFKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw

https://youtu.be/bUZJyZldy10

fig.1 month-calendar Oct.2015

Downloads:

https://goo.gl/J6Uuzx 




1 Sept 2015

Month-calendar for September 2015 in Excel

#42 Month-calendar for September 2015 in Excel

Note 10/9/2015: I updated this post, with a new Excel which includes a 2015/16-schoolyear-calendar, see fig.2 and dowload-url V2 below.

In this post the new month-calendar for September 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner. Theme of this month is (again) "La Vuelta Ciclista a España - Cycling Tour of Spain 2015", which is held from 20 Aug. to 13 Sept.,  for more info, see:

http://www.lavuelta.com/15pr/en/index.html

The reason to repeat the theme (la Vuelta was also theme of month in Aug.) was to write about a Dutch surprise in this edition of La Vuelta, Tom Dumoulin, who won yesterday in a magnificant race the 9th stage (in Valencia), and is now also leading in the general ranking.  For a video of (part of) the race, see e.g.:

https://youtu.be/Ko-Hix712Ck
https://youtu.be/zj3r4apKNhY

I hope to see Dumoulin finish here in Madrid 13 Sept in the red jersey ( the Spanish yellow jersey).


Fig.1: month-calendar


fig.2: schoolyear-calendar


Downloads:

V1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BywxxSJoaUYxaWUxSVh4QUhBY1U/view?usp=sharing

V2 (zip with Excel and PDF-version):
https://goo.gl/XoCvaG

1 Aug 2015

Month-calendar for August 2015 in Excel

#40 Month-calendar for August 2015 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for August 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner. Theme of this month is "La Vuelta Ciclista a España - Tour of Spain 2015", which starts 20 August, for more info, see:

http://www.lavuelta.com/15pr/en/index.html

This cycling Grand Tour also passed through the mountains Picos de Europa (Asturia), a very nice part of Spain where I spent several holidays, for some photos, see:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/46731978@N00/7573362742/in/photolist-c: eqYW-cxereq-cxerEL-cxestW-cxesTG-cxes2m-cxetdw-cxetNb-cxeu37-cxeuvE/

In my calendar I used a clipart from:
http://www.chungkong.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MY-VUELTA-A-ESPANA-MINIMAL-POSTER-2015-2-720px.jpg


-- fig.1

Downloads (Excel and PDF):

https://goo.gl/JZ1fte

2 Jul 2015

Month-calendar for July 2015 in Excel

#39 Month-calendar for July 2015 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for July 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner. Theme of this month is "(Free) Summer Courses by Open University Madrid (UDIMA)", aprox. 70 courses 'online' (with Google Hangout) during the whole month of July. The courses are about various themes, one of them is Business Administration, with a course about Excel: "Treatment of Accounting data with MS Excel. Pivot-tables and Power Pivot".  So the courses are free, online (type: Open Education), last about 1 hour, are in Spanish and had in 2014 over 10.000 'students' of about 56 countries (mainly Spanish-speaking). For more info about the UDIMA summer courses, see:

http://www.udima.es/es/cursos-verano-2015



--fig.1


Download:

https://goo.gl/ci8p1j

25 Jun 2015

Vacations planner for 2015 in Excel

#38 Vacations planner for 2015 in Excel

Note: I made a similiar Excel for 2014 (see post #20), but the 2015-version has some new features, like date-formulas, to calculate e.g. the weekday (in fig.1 these have the Spanish names, like Lu(nes) = Monday).

The Excel in this post is a vacations planner for 2015. It has all dates of 2015 and for every resource (team-member) you (team-manager) should mark with a number for the 'vacations request status' which date(s) he wants to take his vacation and if that is possible or not, like this:
 1: applied (yellow)
 2: aproved (green)
 3: refused (red)

In fig.1 you can see a small example of a company with 2 employers (John and Jane) which have to agree about their vacation-dates, in a way that there is always at least 1 person at the office. The last column 'Conflict' = 1 (red) if both Jane and John have a vacations-request (with status 1) for the same day.

And to conclude this post:
If you don´t have any plans yet for these summer holidays, maybe I have an idea for you, see sheet-1 of the Excel for a photo of my holidays-destination in 2011, Islas Cies, playa Rodas (Galicia - Espana),  which was elected that year by the readers of the newspaper 20minutos as the nicest beach of Spain, and this newspaper used one of my photos to show why, see:

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1149298/0/mejor/playa/verano-2011




 fig.1: Holidays-planner


Download:

https://goo.gl/Q6cf7z


2 Jun 2015

Month-calendar for June 2015 in Excel

#37 Month-calendar for June 2015 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for June 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner.
Theme of this month is "Rotary Streetsoccer Oldenzaal 2015", a soccer-tournament for schools in Oldenzaal (Netherlands), with 338 teams (2200 kids) participating this year, a new record.  For more info about this tournament, see:

www.rotarystreetsoccer.nl

and for some videos, see:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj8g5qDJk5A
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBK-sYJPRA4

And for photos, see:
https://www.facebook.com/RotaryStreetsoccer/photos

As I wrote in a previous post, see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/match-access-app-to-track-world-cup.html

I made a computer-program, Match, for this tournament (6 years ago), with MS Access. For some
of the reports of Match for this year´s edition of the tournament, see:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_emFzfVW20dalR5REd2aHljeEU&usp=sharing&tid=0B5vS1W52SGhjZ3gzc3ltSG9xek0

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_emFzfVW20dRTdXN1Fna0IzSVE&usp=sharing&tid=0B5vS1W52SGhjZ3gzc3ltSG9xek0

https://www.facebook.com/RotaryStreetsoccer/photos/a.693853170666477.1073741829.319101751474956/899126876805771/?type=1&theater

And for all other Match-reports and everything else about Match and how it can be used for competitions like Rotary Streetsoccer, see the user manual:
https://es.scribd.com/doc/119063075/Handleiding-Match-2012-pdf

Note that for this calendar I used '#' to color-format the days of the tournament, and that the weekdays are in Dutch, which I configured in sheet-1, where you can select from varios languages.

And to conclude this post I want to recommend you this Excel.course by TU Delft (Delft University of Technology, where I studied computer science):

https://courses.edx.org/courses/DelftX/EX101x/1T2015/info

Data Analysis: Take it to the MAX(), a course with videos about how you can do data-analysis with MS Excel.


--fig.1


Download:

https://goo.gl/pt4Jfg

6 Apr 2015

Timesheet for worked hours 2015 v3 with total hours per project

#35 Timesheet for worked hours 2015 - v3, with total hours per project

Note 10-1-2016: I made a new version of this Timesheet Excel with statistics in a PowerView-report, for 2016, see:

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/timesheet-for-worked-hours-2016-and.html


This post is about the new version (V3) of the Excel I made  to track your worked hours, the "Timesheet 2015". For my post about the previous version (V2), see:

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/timesheet-for-worked-hours-2015.html

What´s new in V3:
*1: worksheet-4 ('DiasHoras'), to track your worked hours per day+hour per project now also has the total hours per project
*2: I created a new Excel that can consolidate the Excel-Timesheets of several employees in 1 Excel, usefull for a Human Resource (HR) department which wants to see e.g. the total hours worked on a project by all employees working on that project, see fig.1.


    fig.1: consolidated Timesheet


The reason to create this new Excel was not for personal use (for my work I only track the 'punch in- and out times'), but a question of a company of Chile who read my blog about the timesheet I created.
The asked me:

"We need a Timesheet that shows how many hours an employee has worked in a project X, considering that there are many ongoing projects and 10 employees in the company who may be working on several projects on the same day. And also: what is the total of hours worked in project X, so for all employees working on project X. "

They also sent me an example of how they want to track the worked hours per employee and project, in crosstab table/Gantt-chart format, see fig.2 (every project has a unique color).



fig.2: Timesheet example of reader of my blog with question

As you can see in my blog-post:

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/timesheet-for-worked-hours-2015.html

(in fig.3), this example looks very much like what I had with my Timesheet-v2, except that I used timeslots of 1 hour (in stead of 0.5 hour as in the example of fig.2), and that my timesheet is for use of 1 person (in stead of the 3 persons as in the example of fig.2), which I solved by creating a new Excel which consolidates all employee timesheets.

Now more details about the new features of Timesheet-v3.

To calculate the total of hours an employee worked on a project X I used this formula:
=SUMIF(Tabla5[@8]:Tabla5[@20];$V$6)

(In Spanish Excel that is: CONTAR.SI)

See fig. 3 for an example of the total project-hours for employee Bruce: the input-table, name 'Tabla5', has in columns H to T (columns 8 to 20) the (color-coded) projects on which Bruce worked (Analysis - green, Design - blue, Coding - red, Deploy - yellow), and the total project-hours are in the table 'Projects' (columns V to AA).
NB: this table repeats the date-column (A) of table 'Tabla5' in column AA, but this column (AA) could better have been the 1st column (V) of table 'Projects' (so that the project-columns can expand to the right without limits).
This example shows e.g. that Bruce worked a in december 23 hours on project 'Analysis' and in total 144 hours (so on all projects).

   fig.3: total project-hours for employee Bruce


And fig.4 shows another example of an (individual) Excel timesheet, of employee Colin, which has of course the same format as that of employee Bruce (fig.3), which is necessary to be able to consolidate the 2 Excels into 1. The only difference (in format) is that of the Projects-table, which does not have the same columns: Colin didn´t work on the Deploy-project (as Bruce did), but on the Document-project (for the rest of the projects, Colin and Bruce worked together). In this example Colin worked on the same amount of projects as Bruce (4), but this is not a necessary condition for consolidation of the 2 Excels.

   fig.4: total project-hours for employee Colin

To consolidate the 2 Excel timesheets of Bruce and Colin in 1 Excel, I created a new record-structure:
(Employee, Project, Hours, Date) (see fig.1) and to 'transform' the data of the 2 Excels of employees Bruce and Colin, which have record-structure (Date, Hours Project-1,  Hours Project-2, .., Hours Project-N, see fig.3-4), I used a kind of 'UNPIVOT' solution (UNPIVOT is a Transact SQL command (MS SQL Server) to create 1 row for each 'pivot-column', which in this case is the column 'Project'),  which SQL-code looks like this (see fig.5 for full code)

SELECT 'Bruce' AS [Employee], 'Analysis' AS [Project], R_Hours_EmployeeB.Analysis AS [Hours], R_Hours_EmployeeB.Date
FROM `C:\Temp\TimeSheetWorkedHours_2015_DEMO_v2_B.xlsx`.R_Hours_EmployeeB R_Hours_EmployeeB
WHERE (R_Hours_EmployeeB.Analysis>0)
UNION ALL 
SELECT 'Bruce' AS [Employee], 'Design' AS [Project], R_Hours_EmployeeB.Design AS [Hours], R_Hours_EmployeeB.Date

..

SELECT 'Colin' AS [Employee], 'Analysis' AS [Project], R_Hours_EmployeeC.Analysis AS [Hours], R_Hours_EmployeeC.Date
FROM `C:\Temp\TimeSheetWorkedHours_2015_DEMO_v2_C.xlsx`.R_Hours_EmployeeC R_Hours_EmployeeC
WHERE (R_Hours_EmployeeC.Analysis>0)
UNION ALL 
SELECT 'Colin' AS [Employee], 'Design' AS [Project], R_Hours_EmployeeC.Design AS [Hours], R_Hours_EmployeeC.Date
FROM `C:\Temp\TimeSheetWorkedHours_2015_DEMO_v2_C.xlsx`.R_Hours_EmployeeC R_Hours_EmployeeC
 

etc.


  fig.5: SQL query to join data of 2 employee-timesheets

For more info about this unpivot-solution, see:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18536639/how-to-unpivot-a-crosstab-like-table

This query also uses a UNION procedure to join data ('named ranges' which you can query as tables using MS Query) from several Excel-files, which I explained in previous posts, see e.g. :

http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/excel-statistics-for-20minutos-blog.html

And for more info about MS Query, see e.g. :

http://exceluser.com/formulas/msquery-excel-relational-data.htm

In my example I had a company with 2 employees and a total of 5 projects, but the solution (1 Excel template 'Timesheet' for employees, 1 Excel 'Consolidated Timesheet' for Human Resource (HR) department and 1 query to import the data form the Employee-Timesheets in the HR-Timesheet) is generic, that is: you can apply it for a company with any number of employees and projects. In the query you have to add a 'union-block' for every employee, and for every employee 1 'union-block' for each project he did.
NB:  Creating this query can be some work, especially if you have a lot of employees and/or projects and there is a risk you make an error, e.g. forget to list a project for an employee. Therefor it´s important to cross-check the total projets hours of the consolidated timesheet (fig.1) with those from the individual timesheets (fig.3-4). An alternative would be to use a normal table instead of a crosstab table to input the worked hours (making the 'Unpivot' construction in the query unnecessary), but this would mean your input-table would have at least 240 rows (30 (#days per month) * 8 (# working-hours per day) and 1 project per day), and you lose your Gantt-chart representation.

For the final result (a pivot-table and pivot-chart for the consolidated timesheet-data), see fig.1, which shows e.g. that Bruce and Colin worked both 144 hours in Dec. and that the Coding-project was the one which consumed the most of their time.


BTW: how did the company from Chile find my blog? Probably from this (Spanish) site:
http://www.portalprogramas.com/
which contains over 15.000 (free) programs (which includes Excel-files like my Timesheet), and not all programs are in Spanish.


Downloads

NB:
The 'input- Excels' C:\Temp\TimeSheetWorkedHours_2015_DEMO_v2_B (with data from employee Bruce) and C:\Temp\TimeSheetWorkedHours_2015_DEMO_v2_C (with data from employee Colin) have to be in dir. C:\Temp so that they can be imported in TimeSheetWorkedHours_2015_DEMO_v2_BC (consolidated timesheet, so with data from employee Bruce and Colin)

#Mirror 1: MS Onedrive
NB: this site has 'Excel-Online', so you can view my Excel-files here if you don´t have MS Excel on your PC

http://1drv.ms/1ceJiYj


#Mirror 2: Google Drive

http://goo.gl/AYYNmw

2 Apr 2015

Month-calendar for April 2015 in Excel

#34 Month-calendar for April 2015 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for April 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner.
Theme of this month is Semana Santa (Easter Week) in Madrid, with processions in the street in which you can see men with cone-shaped hats (see fig.1). For more info, see:
www.semanasantamadrid.es

and for a video o Semana Santa in Sevilla, maybe the most famous one of Spain, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOL3eeDdAXw



--fig.1


Download:

http://goo.gl/nsfTH3






4 Mar 2015

Month-calendar for March 2015 in Excel

#33 Month-calendar for March 2015 in Excel

In this post the new month-calendar for March 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner.
Theme of this month is Spring, which in Madrid, with days of 20C already, is anounced by the almond-trees in park Quinta de Molina as you can see on my photos:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/46731978@N00/13168647425/






fig.1 Month-calendar March 2015




Download:

http://goo.gl/1itdxG