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 […]
There are a lot of different ways to visualize data. Of course there are preferred methods for doing so. This post is not necessarily about those practices, but more on the alternatives. I expect some comments on this post because of that ;). With this post I want to talk about time-series and trending alternatives. […]
With this post I would like to challenge the people reading this and using Qlik Sense a bit more frequently. The animated gif (analysis demo) reveals some of the concepts and solutions that need to be solved by you in this challenge: Dimension values can be switched using a variable drop down A scatter chart […]
My Son, Melvin – 8 years old, plays soccer every saturday. And guess who his biggest fan is? Yep, that’s me! If you have read a few of my earlier posts on this site, you’ll know my focus is on data and the sense making of it. But you’ll probably also recognized i’m a bit […]
A while ago I stumbled upon this website with executions in the state of Texas. Then you start thinking about all that happened and other intimidating stuff. After that it took me a while – after bookmarking the source – when I found it again in one of my bookmark collections. This started me to […]
I often hear a question like ‘How should one design a dashboard?’. Oftentimes this conversation is about charts, design elements, positioning/layout or colors. In this case people should already be familiar with their content and data, right? Then most of the times I’m still surprised people don’t always know the content and the exact requirements […]
Since a few months Twitter allows their users to do more on analytics from their own tweets. Not only do they provide a download to your tweets and detailed statistics that come with that, they also provide insight into your twitter performance. Very cool I think. This is a nice step forward in the landscape of social […]
Recently I created a new application with Qlik Sense for being able to monitor your local workstation or laptop. This app gives insight into your windows event logs. This dashboard application also gives IT administrators a tool and some inspiration on what the possibilities are and how those can be achieved using Qlik Sense. This […]
I wonder if people really like to know what they are doing. And if so, what and how they are using software or other media to make this happen. So, do you? If you would for example like to dive into your own workflow in Qlik Sense and see how to make this visualization yourself, […]
Lately I’ve been getting some questions on how to work with information design in Qlik Sense. Two of the most are: How to work with images How to use color coding in visualizations So here are a few tips covering just these. So how do you add images to your application? This is quite simple […]