As our intro picture already cryptically explained. In a lot of cases weather should be considered an important factor when looking for correlation (<> causation). In this picture both variables are dependant on the weather. A no brainer, I know. More and more companies are looking into this subject to understand where these correlations exist. […]
Ever since I caught the hype of the ‘Quantified Self‘, I am oftentimes on the outlook for data that can be recorded automatically and says something about me. The goal for me with this is to explore things like that and to be able to learn from it. I now, for example, know that […]
Most of us know what Qlik Grey is. An example of this being: Here you can see we selected a price range of ‘200-300’. After that, a lot of values turn white and/or grey. White values still associate with the selection you made, meaning there are values holding the same property for price range. Grey […]
In most of my presentations I often showcase the logical relationships in a KPI framework. The way data can be analysed using these models is often a good thing to consider in your overall design of an analytics solution. This post is just about that. Visualizing the hierarchy that can exist in a dataset or KPI […]
Starting your ideas around a mashup dashboard can sometimes be a time consuming thing to do. Especially when you’re starting your efforts with coding it with HTML/CSS/JS. For this I’ve been researching a few methods and tools to be able to speed up the process of prototyping. I still use bootstrap a lot, which, […]
This post, since the last post on the topic of ‘Web Dashboards‘, is going to showcase how to create a popup in your dashboard page. For this you need to include a few libraries from which the code will be referenced using HTML markup and Javascript to achieve the result. This is the example I’m […]
Before I continue my ‘next post’ on Web Dashboards, I want this post to go first. This post will cover a topic I’ve been working on involving Twitter data and the relationships in that data. Many of you probably know this type of visualization already, the network visualization. As in an earlier post on doing […]
Recently I’ve been doing some research into the world of web applications or mashups. The new capabilities that ship with Qlik Sense are really nice to explore and again give designers and developers a huge potential of creating better experiences when thinking of data-driven applications. This post is intended to highlight a few examples of […]
I think that ROI (Return on Investment) is one of the most important factors for the existence of any data-driven solution. If your solution isn’t being actively used in decision making, it is worthless! This is one of the most important rules out there. Usage. But not for the sake of it. For real […]
Your assignment and task for designing and creating a dashboard is an important one. Creating oversight, insight and alerting for consumers to see how performance is progressing, is a real challenge. Most of the times an assignment like this starts with a document providing an overview of the requirements consumers need. But oftentimes organizations struggle translating and […]