Blog MOVED

Dear readers, I have decided to move my blog to a more flexible platform. My new blog can now be reached on marcocardinale.com...

Power BI Dashboards and Athletics Results Seasonality

I am trying to build a PowerBI dashboard to look at the seasonality of best times from the Top List of the IAAF website. The first example looks interesting. Hopefully I will have the time to finish this in the next few weeks. You can navigate it from the maps indicating the number of results in the top list by the nation of the athletes and check the seasonal distribution ...

4 years in the desert

It is amazing how time goes so fast. Today I celebrate my fourth anniversary living in the desert and working at Aspire Academy in Doha. It is as hot as I found it getting out of the airport (40 degrees C today!) when I arrived from a much colder London. While it seems like yesterday, four years have gone by quickly and a lot has happened professionally and personally. This blog article is a bit of a mix. A reflection...

2016 is gone, looking forward to a great 2017

I realised I have not written much on the blog for ages now and this is a good time to analyse the year just finished as well as looking a bit into 2017. First of all, thanks to the 13,134 users who read the blog. It feels like a small town was curious about my writing and I want to thank everyone for the more than 72,000 page views. Despite the fact that I am not terribly active on the Blog, "old" articles still...

Olympic Results Visualization

In recent months I have been using Microsoft Power BI to develop dashboards to present data in graphical format and analyse data gathered during the day to day activities in my workplace. This product is absolutely amazing (also because it is free!) and it has really facilitated the way I can put together dynamic reports and share data with my staff as well as other colleagues and coaches. If you want to know more about Power BI you can go to this weblink and also you can have a look at the demo video to understand the...