#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
Blog with real world examples of Excel spreadsheets for work (e.g. timesheet) and sports (e.g. analysis of results of 10K races). And blog has also examples made with other Business Intelligence tools as MS Power BI and Google Sheets and Google Data Studio.
25 Jun 2015
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
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
4 May 2015
Month-calendar for May 2015 in Excel
#36 Month-calendar for May 2015 in Excel
In this post the new month-calendar for May 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner.
Theme of this month is "La carrera de la mujer Madrid", a 10K race for women to raise funds for breastcancer research, hold on Sun. 10/5 with over 30.000 participants. For more info, see:
http://www.carreradelamujer.com/
--fig.1
Download:
http://goo.gl/dUU0tS
In this post the new month-calendar for May 2015, see fig.1. The Excel also has the year-calendar for 2015 and a 2015-year-planner.
Theme of this month is "La carrera de la mujer Madrid", a 10K race for women to raise funds for breastcancer research, hold on Sun. 10/5 with over 30.000 participants. For more info, see:
http://www.carreradelamujer.com/
--fig.1
Download:
http://goo.gl/dUU0tS
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
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:
*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
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
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
11 Feb 2015
Excel Statistics for 20Minutos Blog Awards 2014
#32 Excel Statistics for 20Minutos Blog Awards 2014
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, the 2nd newspaper in Spain, with a daily (free) edition of approx. 1 million, organizes the 9th edition of its Blog Awards ("Premios 20Blogs"), the biggest blog-contest in the Spanish speaking world. The 2014 edition has 7223 participating blogs from (mostly) Spanish speaking bloggers, and they are not only from Spain but e.g. also from Latin America (where BTW 20Minutos is also published in 2 countries: USA and Mexico). 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: 5000 euro.
My blog exists over 1 year now, and although it´s not in Spanish, I also signed-up my blog, and 20Minutos accepted it. Maybe they accepted that my blog is in English because English is so popular in Spain nowadays, there are so many people doing courses, even MP Rajoy seems to have done the course 'learn the 1000 most used English words'. Or maybe my blog was accepted because I have several post which have something to do with Spain, or Madrid where I live, e.g.:
* 2015 year-calendar with holidays in Spain and Madrid ('calendario laboral'), with Spanish names of weekdays and months, see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/month-calendar-for-january-2015-in-excel.html
* timesheet to track worked hours (´plantilla de control de horas trabajado', 'los partes'), with integrated Spanish calendar, and e.g Spanish summer-schedule (´horario intensivo'), see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/timesheet-for-worked-hours-2015.html
* Excel with statistics results 10K run 'Corre por el niño' (organized by children hospital Niño Jesus), see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/statistics-result-10-km-run-corre-por.html
* Infographic win/loss record of Rafa Nadal, see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/infographic-winloss-record-rafa-nadal.html
* Match schedule 2014 FIBA Worldcup Basketball Spain (´Mundial baloncesto') , see:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/worldcup-basketball-2014-match-schedule.html
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. And I thought it could be interesting for all the participants of the Blog Awards to see some statistics about it. Of course 20Minutos also made one, about the number of participating blogs per year, see:
http://blogs.20minutos.es/premios20blogs/vota-ya-por-tus-favoritos-en-los-premios-20blogs-tienes-7-221-candidaturas-entre-las-que-elegir-y-20-votos-para-repartir/
And this is 1(of 4) statistics in my Excel, see fig.1.
NB: in their graphic, the total of 2013 is not correct (6790), or better said, not corresponding to their data on this page (my source):
http://lablogoteca.20minutos.es/premios-20blogs/ediciones-anteriores/2013/
This graph shows that the number of blogs participating in the Blog Awards increased almost every year, from a bit more than 2000 in 2006 to over 7000 in 2014.
fig.1
fig.2
The chart in fig.2 shows for the 2014 Blog Awards the number of blogs for all 20 blog-categories (except 'Best Blog' and 'Public Prize', because of course all blogs participate in these 2 'categories'). My blog is in category 'Blogosfera' (a 'Rest'-category, so for blogs which don´t fit in any other category) with 933 blogs, although I thought I signed up for category 'Internet etc.', with 502 blogs, so with 'less' competition then in category 'Blogosfera', but still, 501 competitors... Maybe next year I´ll participate with a blog about motors .. (this category has only 48 blogs).
fig.3
fig.4
The charts in fig.3 and 4 are similar, both have the 'dimensions' (axis) time and blog-category, but they differ on which axis (x or y) these dimensions are placed. Both have a filter: Rank blog-category <= 3, so it shows per year only the top 3 blog-categories (excluding the 'Rest-category'). In fig.3 you can see that there are 5 categories which every year have the most blogs, and that in the beginning the 'Personal-category' was the most popular but this decreased during the years. And in fig.4 you can e.g. see that before 2011 the 'Personal-category' was the one with ranking 1, but that since then, the 'Culture-category' took over.
How did I make this Excel? I used this page as my data-source:
http://lablogoteca.20minutos.es/premios-20blogs/ediciones-anteriores/2013/
Maybe I could have used the 'copy/paste' method to get the data from this (tabbed) HTML-table in Excel, but I thought it would be nicer to use the Power BI option of Excel, and use the function "Get external data from website", but this didn´t work. But from this site:
https://eagereyes.org/data/scrape-tables-using-google-docs
I learned that Google-Sheets (Google´s Excel..) is better in 'scraping' data from websites then Excel. So I created a spreadsheet with Google-Sheets on Google-Drive (so in the cloud) and this function did the job perfectly:
=IMPORTHTML("http://lablogoteca.20minutos.es/premios-20blogs/ediciones-anteriores/2013/", "table",1)
I shared this Google-spreadsheet here:
http://goo.gl/At8RkU
see also fig.5
fig.5: Google-spreadsheet with data imported from website 20Minutos
And then I exported (downloaded) this cloud-spreadsheet from Google-Sheets to my 'good-old' desktop Excel (version 2013). And this Excel is the database (´server´) for the Excel with the statistics (´client´), and to 'bind' them, I used an Excel-query, and to get the data of every year, with 1 worksheet (and 'named range') per year in 1 table, I used SQL´s union-operator:
--
SELECT R_2006.Categorias, R_2006.Ganador, R_2006.Concursantes, R_2006.Rank, R_2006.Año
FROM `D:\projects\20Minutos_BlogCompetition2014_v4_input.xlsx`.R_2006 R_2006
union
SELECT R_2007.Categorias, R_2007.Ganador, R_2007.Concursantes, R_2007.Rank, R_2007.Año
FROM `D:\projects\20Minutos_BlogCompetition2014_v4_input.xlsx`.R_2007 R_2007
union
ETC
--
For more info about using Excel as a database, see my post:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/excel-and-relational-databases.html
The 4 statistics in my Excel are made with pivot-tables, about which I wrote in several posts, e.g.:
http://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/timesheet.html
And to conclude this post, I´d like to say good luck to all my fellow-bloggers in the "Premios 20Blogs" Blog Awards.
Downloads:
#Mirror 1: Scribd.com (PDF file):
https://es.scribd.com/doc/255471225/20Minutos-Blog-Awards-2014-some-Statistics
#Mirror 2: MS Onedrive (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
-server:
http://1drv.ms/1z8iMEn
-client (with statistics):
http://1drv.ms/1MdCR5o
#Mirror 3: Google Drive (1 zip file with Excel and PDF files):
http://goo.gl/30xyB1
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