The only thing worse than your data pipeline not meeting your SLAs, is having your business users make decisions that are costly for the company because the data in their applications is stale. For the ITIL Service Intelligence accelerator that… Read more ›
Yesterday I received a ping like I do each quarter from a horrible human being… Cory in IT. It said “Dalton I’m here to remind you that for the next 7 days you need to spend every waking minute going… Read more ›
Basic Auth to OAuth Many vendors, including ServiceNow, enable more refined security than a simple basic user name and password, called OAuth. OAuth just stands for Open Authorization, which is simply an industry standard for requesting a token that has… Read more ›
My Smart Knee In December of 2023 I had a fight with a step ladder, and it won. As a result I’ve needed 3 surgeries and the most recent was a total knee replacement. Doesn’t sound fun, but for a… Read more ›
Background 6 years ago I wrote a post entitled “Actionable Intelligence” in which I described flipping the script on the data storytelling world. Rather than presenting a story about the data you have, you first consider what story you need… Read more ›
The Black Hole Your cloud database bill just arrived, and it’s a real doozey. Worst yet is the fact that it is a black hole. In other words when you ask for the spare change in the companies couch cushions… Read more ›
Background Recently I’ve heard a lot of comments suggesting that Qlik Sense must be pre-loaded. Pre-loading has a lot of advantages for speed and reuse, but that doesn’t have to be the case. So, I published a video where I… Read more ›
Background Recently a very close family friend reached out to me and said “Can you help me visualize some data?” I was like “Heck yes.” We had a brief conversation and I found out my serial entrepreneur type friend was… Read more ›
Diving into Parquet: It’s Not Just About the File Format I’m finally diving into something I’ve been hinting at for a while: Diving into parquet files. We’re going to look at using parquet both internally and externally for storage because:… Read more ›
Prerequisite In my previous post on The Importance of Metadata I shared an example of some data values that looked crazy when viewed without the metadata about them. Then I shared how you could add that metadata into your Qlik… Read more ›