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 ›
WII-FM When I was young Dork starting my career I participated in Toastmasters International for 7 years. If you aren’t familiar with the organization it is a non-profit group with clubs all over the world where you meet on a… Read more ›
In my previous post Merging with Time Travel I demonstrated how you can combine Qlik’s Merge functionality to take advantage of Snowflake Time Travel. After all, everyone else in the world is talking about Change Data Capture and Data Pipelines… Read more ›
Yikes Sorry science fiction fans this post isn’t about time travel or the new fascination with surviving while traveling through a black hole. It’s about something much scarier and harder to deal with. End users who are super demanding. You… Read more ›
I need more data We’ve all said that before. More importantly, we have all heard that from other users before. Well let’s imagine that your healthcare system users have access to 185 million rows of data. Patients. Encounters. Medications. Medications.… Read more ›
