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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Foreword All businesses have a product which they sell and hospitals, even non-profits, are no exception to that rule. Their product? Beds. Oh, sure they have lots of human beings that poke you, prod you, care for you and feed… Read more ›
A picture paints a thousand words They say that a picture paints a thousand words. If that were true, you should be able to describe a picture with a thousand words. Right? Like you, I have no idea who “they”… Read more ›
Recently my colleague, friend and all around nice guy David Freriks asked me to help him “analyze” the data available for Peloton. As you can imagine two data dorks like us had a lot of fun trying to create an… Read more ›
Flexibility Question: How do you know whether you are an artist or a BI designer? Answer: By the amount of hands on interaction from your end users. To that end Qlik provides you the means of adding functionality to engage… Read more ›
Ask any Qlikkie and they will tell you that the one feature about Qlik that sets it apart from any other product is its Associative Engine. It allows you to hold gigantic amounts of data in memory and navigate it… Read more ›
Politics is a topic we are supposed to stay away from. It turns friends into enemies. Plus House Resolutions are just a bunch of boring text who has time for all that jazz. Certainly won’t find any in other data… Read more ›
