Romina studied social sciences, social research and sociology. Since she did empirical work during her studies, she wanted to present her data nicely. That's how she came to Data School (TIL). The ability to present data in a way that people can understand and thus share insights is what excites her about data work and visualisation. Outside of work, she enjoys solving riddles in exit games or trying to get out of escape rooms.
Romina Wiechern

Blog Posts


Thu 02 Jun 2022 | Romina Wiechern
Try not to freak out
Today was day three of the Dashboard Week and it is the last week as Data
Schooler. Lena gave us a very cool topic: The Gender Pay Gap (
https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/viewing/download). I was very happy to
work with the data – till the problems began

Wed 01 Jun 2022 | Romina Wiechern
ZWEITER TAG DER DASHBOARD WEEK
Heute war der zweite Tag der Dashboard Week in der Data School. Wir haben am
Morgen Daten zu den Tweets der letzten Jahre von Elon Mask bekommen (Quelle:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ayhmrba/elon-musk-tweets-2010-2021?select=2019.csv
)


Tue 31 May 2022 | Romina Wiechern
HOW TO: CREATE A BUMP CHART
A bump chart is a nice way to visualise the preferences or sales over time. For
that you have to rank a specific dimension. In my example, I used data that
provide information on inflows to and outflows from Hamburg (data source:
https://www.govdata


Thu 26 May 2022 | Romina Wiechern
HOW TO: USE AN URL ACTION ON A DASHBOARD
Sometimes it is nice to have a direct link to get some additional information
about the topic your dashboard is about. Therefore, you can use an URL link
Action. With this type of Dashboard Action you can send the viewer to an
external web page


Thu 26 May 2022 | Romina Wiechern
HOW TO: WEB PAGE OBJECT auf einem Dashboard nutzen
Für manche Inhalte ist es cool, wenn die Anwender*innen eines Dashboards über
einen Link direkt auf Inhalte zugreifen können, um mehr Informationen zu
bekommen. Hierfür eignet sich eine Verlinkung auf eine spezifische Website


Thu 28 Apr 2022 | Romina Wiechern
Dynamische Überschriften für einen Wechsel erstellen
Wenn in einem Dashboard mit Wechseln zwischen Metriken oder Grafiktypen in einer
Grafik durch z.B.: Parameter gearbeitet wird, ist es gut, dies auch in der
Überschrift zu erkennen. So weiß der*die Betrachter*in worauf sich die geänderte
Grafik bezieht


Fri 08 Apr 2022 | Romina Wiechern
HOW TO CHANGE SHAPES IN TABLEAU DESKTOP
Sometimes it is nice to show not just the labels and the values on a dashboard
or in a chart, but to make it more visual for the viewer. For that you can
change shapes in Tableau.
If we have for example a data set with the London Airbnb listings (data source:
https://data


Tue 15 Mar 2022 | Romina Wiechern
First WOW - Workout Wednesday
Through last week's session with Ruth, which introduced us to the world of drill
downs and tableau actions, I got to work on my first Workout Wednesday task
today. I picked the task from week 30 "Can you create a drill down using set
actions?" (https://www.workout-wednesday