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 ›
Setting the Stage Imagine that you are an average ordinary Qlik Developer. You start to create a new application for some healthcare big cheese so you find the virtual data warehouse of QVD files and all goes well. The data… Read more ›
Goal While on a recent journey to learn more about Semantic Modeling and Graphing Database technology, I set off to try and visualize a Knowledge Graph. Oh sure I could have created some fake sales data with 2 or 3… Read more ›
Background Before I dive into the deep end of walking you through the process of creating a Qlik Link Table, I want to share a tiny bit of background. As I was learning Qlik one of the most impactful things… Read more ›
Goal I’m guessing that like other Data Visualizers around the world you spend a lot of your time creating dashboards that are full of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), and not nearly enough time creating dashboards that focus on visualizing dimensional… Read more ›
Purpose If I were to sit down at a prompt window with a Generative AI Art tool like MidJourney and ask for a Pirate it might render something like below. That’s what it does. While that is a classic pirate… Read more ›
Prerequisites to the Why You can’t start a post by handing out work to be done before you readers can read it! I would like to follow that convention, however, I find myself in a place where you really need… Read more ›