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  • Cycle Plots in Qlik

    Cycle Plots in Qlik

    Before I continue with my blog series about becoming a Qlik Sense Developer, I’d like to share my current progress and confirm that it has been well worth the extra time and effort.  I’ve found out that there are manifold ways to apply web development skills to extend Qlik Sense’s functionality. For example, you can…

  • Mastering QlikView Data Visualization

    The book, Mastering QlikView Data Visualization, happens to be my lost adventures as a QlikView consultant. I haven’t promoted it much because after two years of writing, I was too anxious to run off to learn other skills. A year and a half after its publication, QlikView is still popular and customers continue to look…

  • Qlik Sense Developer Step #2b: My First Extension

    At this point, I have the motivation to become a Qlik Sense developer, a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and rudimentary knowledge on how to create a simple Qlik Sense extension. The only piece I’m missing is an idea about what great purpose my first Qlik Sense extension would serve. I thought about creating a…

  • Qlik Sense Developer Step #2a: Qlik Sense Extension Basics

    Learning a new skill while on the job is difficult. For the past 6 months, I’ve been swamped doing what I’ve happily done for the last 12 years: QlikView. Luckily, I’ve involved others like Julian Villafuerte in my decision to become a Qlik Sense developer and that makes it easier. At the time of writing…

  • Qlik Sense Developer Step #1: Web Dev Fundamentals

     I’m continuously updating the list of learning resources at the end of this post, and tag my latest updates as new. As a QlikView developer, I relish the freedom that QlikView gives me to customize the look and feel of a single chart or the layout of an entire dashboard. On the surface, Qlik Sense simplifies the creation of visual…

  • Can a QlikView developer be a Qlik Sense developer?

    QlikView developers (as per the book QlikView 11 for Developers) were those of us who wrote load scripts, designed data models, formulated expressions, and manipulated QlikView objects. Qlik Help has now left that group of people nameless and deemed developers to be those who work with either QlikView or Qlik Sense APIs using some third-party code. Even so, I still consider…

  • Robot in the Cloud: Automatic File Upload to Qlik Sense Cloud

    In my previous post about my company’s migration to Qlik Sense Cloud Business, I described my frustration about having to manually upload data to my company’s workspace. I also expressed my belief that Qlik Sense Cloud would grow as fast as Qlik could develop data connectors for it.  In his comment to the post, I think Aaron Couron summarized…

  • Qlik Sense Cloud – Finally Getting Down to Business

    Last week I accidentally published this post before going to bed and woke up the next morning with a nice surprise that people had visited the post when it was still supposed to be a draft. I apologize for this leak and plan to catch those brain cells responsible for wasting your time. As a…

  • Exponential Distributions in Qlik

    Last week, I gave the business case for using an exponential distribution to predict a customer’s purchase frequency and detect at-risk and lost customers, Sales Analytics in Qlik: From the Basics to Statistical Modeling. In this week’s post, we go over the details of calculating and visualizing the exponential distribution in QlikView using the following chart.…

  • Sales Analytics in Qlik: From the Basics to Statistical Modeling

    The basics The most common Qlik application involves sales data analysis. Period. Well, I don’t have enough information to back that up, and since data analysis is my life, I can’t make unsupported claims without some major nervous facial twitching (or so my wife says). However, I would bet based on personal experience that it is…

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