Category: Learning QlikView Data Visualization

Since Learning QlikView Data Visualization was published, the url to download the SVG map extension created by Brian Munz and highlighted in chapter 7 has changed to https://github.com/brianwmunz/svgReader-QV11. If you have any questions about the content of the book, don’t hesitate to ask. See you around, Karl

Packt Publishing is going to be giving away 2 free copies of Learning QlikView Data Visualization this week. Overview of Learning QlikView Data Visualization How to Participate During the last giveaway, I asked for ideas on what data visualizations you would like to add to QlikView.  Now, I can’t imagine the development team at QlikTech being able…

Thanks to all those who responded to my post in QlikCommunity and in this blog about what data visualization they would like to see in QlikView.  I learned a few things about what people would love to do in QlikView.  Most visualizations that were posted are possible to create in QlikView, but what frustrates many…

This week I’m giving away three e-book copies of Learning QlikView Data Visualization.  To be eligible to win all you have to do is post what data visualization method you would like to do in QlikView that you have not been able to do until now.   It could either be a chart or a technique.…

Those who have read Learning QlikView Data Visualization may wonder why I didn’t talk about pie charts in the book.  Some may even assume that I am a data visualization idealist that tries to deny people’s temptations to create pie charts, but while I do support those idealists, I have created more than a few pie charts…

In chapter 4 of Learning QlikView Data Visualization, I explain how to perform multivariate analysis with heat maps and mini-charts.  However, I left out the possibility of using a parallel coordinates chart to analyze the relationship between several variables.  Honestly, this method is rarely great for communicating your discoveries to others, as Stephen Few explains so well…

Many times users lose a great opportunity to use color to make their QlikView interface more appealing and insightful when they choose to make a rainbow-colored bar chart.  One of the most important subjects I had to leave out of Learning QlikView Data Visualization was how to apply the coloring technique of a heat map to a bar chart.…

If you have the QlikView Personal Edition (PE), you can only open QlikView documents created locally on your own computer.  So, if you are downloading and installing QlikView for the first time, or you don’t have a full QlikView license and are using the QlikView PE, you are going to get the following error when…