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 ›
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 ›