I want a dataset small enough to be loaded in a text editor (with formatting turned on), but representative of the whole data. I want it for prototype scripts, but I dont want it to be missing stuff present in full datasets.
The smallest dataset I downloaded is 15MB. Is there smaller than 1MB?
Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org. Move to an area with medium-sized towns and zoom so that you can see the whole of a single smallish town. Click on the 'Export' tab. Click on 'Manually select a different area'. Drag out a small rectangle, for example west=-0.6309, south=51.7446, east=-0.539, north=51.7791 (Berkhamsted, U.K.). Click on the 'OpenStreetMap XML Data' radio button then press the 'Export' button. You will receive a reasonably representative data set 1.6Mb in size. This example contains most road types except motorways, and is a good subset of typical OSM data. No data set apart from planet.osm contains every tag, of course.
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Dear Anylogic Community,
I am struggling with finding the right approach for storing my simulation results. I have datasets created that keep track of every value I am interested in. They live in Main (see below)
My aim is to do a parameter variation experiment. In every run, I change the value for p_nDrones (see below)
After the experiment, I would like to store all the datasets in one excel sheet.
However, when I do the parameter variation experiment and afterwards check the log of the dataset (datasets_log), the changed values do not even show up (2 is the value I did set up in the normal simulation).
Now my question. Do I need to create another type of dataset if I want to track the values that are produced in the experiments? Why are they not stored after executing the experiment?
I really would appreciate if someone could share the best way to set up this export of experiment results. I would like to store the whole time series for every dataset.
Thank you!
Best option would be to write the outputs to some external file at the end of each model run.
If you want to use Excel, which I personally would not advise, even though it has a nice excelFile.writeDataSet() function, you can.
I would rather write the data to a text file as you will have much for control over the writing, the file itself, it is thread-safe, and useable in many many more platforms than Microsoft Excel.
See my example below:
Setup parameters in your model that you will write the data to at the end of the model of type TextFile. Here I used the model on destroy code to write out the data from the data sets.
Here you can immediately see the benefit of using the text file! You can add the number of drones we are simulating (or scenario name or any other parameter) in a column, whereas with Excel this would be a pain...
Now you can pass your specific text file to the model to use by adding it to the parameter variation page, providing it to the model through the parameters.
You will see that I also set up some headers for the text file in the Initial Experiment setup part, and then at the very end of the experiment, I close the text files in the After experiment section so that the text files can be used.
Here is the result if you simply right-click on the text files and open them in Excel. (Excel will always have a purpose, even if it is just to open text files ;-) )
I connected my visio professional 2010 diagram to an excel sheet with a list of items with some properties.
I want to display nice rectangles with the items name and some properties in it.
When I link a data item to a plain rectangle, the data appears but I am not able to format and configure it properly (e.g. fonts, colours, positions in the box).
I found general instructions how to link data and very complex documentation around shapesheet (whose complexity is a bot overwhelming for a visio newbie)
How can I - in a simple way - create boxes from linked data that have for example the item's name in bold, horizontally centered, at the top of the box, and some of its attributes (with label) in a smaller font below ?
Somehow I think of a preconfigured template of such a shape whose text-data can be populated semi-automatically from excel data following this process:
Preparation:
Link excel data to diagram (clear)
Create shape template (unclear)
Doing:
link data items to shape instances (clear)
Free Visual Layout (clear)
Do preparation step 1 to ONE shape. Remove the data graphics Select
the shape, menu insert / field. Insert the desired shape data from
the list. (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Insert-a-text-field-into-a-shape-0225c22e-3e5e-4ea7-9ca0-1ec91386cb1e)
Show the document stencil or create a new stencil.
drop the shape into the stencil. It is now a Master
Having the master selected in the stencil, drop rows from the external data window onto your drawing. Visio will use that master as standard shape.
HTH, Y.
The solution is to create your own "data graphics". Actually Visio's help is sufficient to get it going. Searching for that key word in Visio help or support.office.com yields instructions how to use it.
I have a dashboard with three displayed parameters:
Time range (Last month, This month, Last 30 days, ..., custom interval)
From (the begin date of the interval)
To (ending date of interval)
My point is that I want to display "From" and "To" parameters only in case when "Time range" parameter is equal to "Custom interval".
Otherwise, i want to hide them, or make them impossible to edit.
Could you help me with this please ?
Thanks.
There are a handful of techniques for selectively hiding components on a dashboard, informally called "sheet swapping".
One simple approach is to place a floating worksheet in a layer above the components you wish to hide -- and make that worksheet have filters based on calculated fields that lead to zero rows or columns being displayed when you wish to show the components below. Then if you hide the title on the worksheet, it will display as zero pixels high or as its complete height depending on the parameter settings.
Here is an example of that approach https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/music-uk
Another form of sheet swapping that gives you a little more flexibility is to place the components that wish to selectively display inside a layout container along with a component whose size depends on the parameter setting. Then you can adjust the "fit" options for the worksheets and where and how you place the layout container to make the optional controls slide in and out of the dashboard, or slide beneath or out from under a floating component.
Joshua Milligan published a workbook demonstrating some of these techniques http://public.tableau.com/views/SheetSwappingonSteroids/PracticalExample and he also describes them in his (highly recommended) book Learning Tableau 10
Robert Rouse also published a blog entry showing some fancier sheet swapping techniques https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2016/1/how-create-collapsible-menu-container-tableau-48610
Note, sheet swapping puts a bit of unnecessary load on the Tableau server if overdone (computing layout positions for views that won't be displayed anyway).
If you don't mind a bit of coding, another option is to embed your visualizations within an HTML page of your own design. Then you can use all the power of HTML and CSS to style parts of your UI - including hiding and showing input controls. Then write a bit of JavaScript using Tableau's JavaScript API to let Tableau know when someone updates an HTML control so it can update the visualization in response. For a really robust complex page, that might be a better choice than trying to emulate HTML/CSS with sheet swapping techniques in a Tableau workbook.
Just see as following image
what I want to realize is, when I choose a specific area in the Area dropbox, The Block dropbox only shows the content which only belong to the selected area. How to realize that in tableau? Area and Block are both parameters.
I would advice you to use filter. then for the block filter,click the arrow on the top right and select "Only Relevant Values".The block filter will then refresh after you choose an area to show only the blocks related to that area.
For parameters currently the dynamic refresh feature is not present, though it is being demanded.
Filters can cascade in Tableau if you select the "Relevant Values" option on the quick filter. (see the little black triangle in the top right of the quick filter).
You may want to also put the two fields into a hierarchy to teach Tableau that Blocks are subordinate to Areas, but Tableau will try to show only relevant values even if you don't define the hierarchies explicitly. To make a hierarchy, drag fields on top of each other in the data pane on the left.
There is no concept of relevant values for parameters currently. Each has an independent range of values. Parameters are not tied to a data source.
I'm using Access 2010 and I would like to create a form where useres can enter data much like they can in an Excel format. The users need to enter a date when a step is complete for a specific unit.
In Excel the units run aross the top row, the steps run down the left column. In the cell where the unit and step meet, you put a date when it is done. In Access it is much harder to create a form that looks like this (at least it has been for me so far). I tried to use a crosstab query, but you cannot enter information into a crosstab query. I can do a massive form listing every combination of units and steps, but there are over 50 units and each one has 63 steps. I don't want users to have to look through a form with over 3,000 lines in it just to enter a date completed.
This definitely feels like something we should be using a database for instead of an Excel spreadsheet. I have the format for the back end tables to hold the data. My problem is how to create a form that is easy for the user to enter the dates.
I think you have three options. First, you could build the form from scratch, which you've already admitted would suck. And it would take a lot of VBA to get the data in the right place. Second, you could automate Excel - it's the same as the first method but you don't have to build the form. You would populate an Excel spreadsheet and write the changes back to the database. This is not a trivial task and I don't recommend it.
The third option is to throw away the idea that you want to do this in a grid. You've probably been doing it in Excel and to the extent that you replicate that, your users will be happy and comfortable. Moving to a database gives you benefits, but there are costs. This is one of the costs.
So create a form with a dropdown containing all of the units. When a unit is selected, populate a subform (datasheet view) listing all of the procedures and dates. The user can then select the unit, and fill in the date next to whichever procedures he wants. Then he can select another unit and do the same thing. If you set it up right, your data will flow to the tables automatically and you'll get all the benefits of data validation, input masks, relationships, and whatever else you're using at the table level.
I know that's not what you were looking for, but I think it's the best way forward.