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Text Color
Like many other data professionals, I was drawn to numbers by sports. I am the prototypical stat-geek with baseball being my vice of choice. I was reading a post from Buster Olney about Evan Gattis’...
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Minimalist Gauges in QlikView
QlikView’s out-of-the-box gauges typically have over-the-top formatting. One gauge that can be used effectively while following Tufte-esque principals is the linear gauge. With the right formatting,...
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QlikView Extension Object – Utilization Planner with d3
Recently I was working on a dashboard to help myself manage my consulting time. As a consultant, my key performance metric is the percent of time I spend each week billing clients. This number is...
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Splitting Trend Lines in QlikView
This post is a follow-up to the Strip Plots post. The Strip Plots post contains more details on the implementation of these charts. See that post for technical background. Line charts excel at showing...
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QlikView Viz Hodgepodge
Here is an assortment of random ideas I’ve been playing with in QlikView recently: Visualizing Press Sizes Imagine you produce cardboard. You want to visualize the different sizes of cardboard you can...
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Showing Missing Time Data in QV
A common problem I encounter in QlikView is missing data in trend charts. Take the following table for example: Division MonthYear Sales A Nov 2013 100 B Nov 2013 50 A Dec 2013 123 B Dec 2013 43 A Jan...
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Magnetic Fields in QlikView (+ open source QV!)
Recently a zoology study about dog defecation has gone viral. No, seriously. In an attempt to test dogs’ sensitivity to Earth’s magnetic field, researchers recorded the urination and defecation of a...
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Video: Building a background image + shadow objects in QlikView
Recently on QlikView’s demo website I’ve noticed a lot of applications with abstract background patterns with accent colors, as well as shadows used within dashboards to separate different objects and...
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Co-post with QlikShow: a Qlik Sense Grid Chart extension
I recently collaborated with Patrick Tehubijuluw of the QlikShow blog on a Qlik Sense application. If you haven’t been to Patrick’s blog before, you are really missing out. QlikShow showcases some of...
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US Choropleth Using QlikView Pivot Table
We had some conversations internally around the idea that it might be easier to read a choropleth if the regions on it (in this case US states) were all a uniform size and shape. It is possible to do...
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Lasso filtering in Qlik Sense Extensions
A few months ago I created a lasso plugin for D3 that mimics the lasso functionality available in Qlik Sense out-of-the-box charts. The ultimate goal in building the plugin was to use it in Qlik Sense...
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