Qlik Summer School Webinar Series - Visual Analitics Design Best Practices

The Visual Analytics Design Best Practices webinar was presented by Patrick Lundblad, Senior Product Manager, and Adam Booth, Product Designer. This session was really interesting not only because it was full of tips about data visualization design, but also because the very interesting facts about data visualization history.

Qlik Summer School Webinar Series - Qlik Project Management Methodology

The second webinar of the "Buoyant Best Practices" week was given by Helen Davey, Qlik Global Project Manager. In this session, she explained the Qlik Project Management (QPM) methodology followed by Qlik, the key areas they focus on, and what are the phases that make up a project.

Qlik Summer School Webinar Series - Customer Success Program

The Qlik Summer School Webinar Series has started. During three weeks Qlik Tech is offering a series of webinars full of tips and tricks that can be useful to leverage your organization's data analytics. Each week is focused on a specific area, week one was dedicated to new products, week two is focused on best practices, and during week three we will know more about current products. So, as a data fan, I decided to attend to all webinars held on week two and three. We are in week two now, and I'm sharing my takeaways from each session, hoping that you find this information helpful.

QlikView: Quick tip #3 - Show links in straight tables

Sometimes you will be required to add links to redirect users to the original source of data. This usually happens when you are analyzing help desk information, and you need to check the original ticket. Instead of moving to your help desk system and look for the ticket, you can add a link in QlikView that redirects you to the one that you need to verify. In this quick tip, we will show you how to add links in a straight table. Current example has been applied to redirect users to posts in this blog, but the same approach can be used in other scenarios.

QlikView: Quick tip #2 - Fixed colors in charts

Let say that you are building a dashboard to analize data from a helpdesk system, and you have been requested to add a chart that shows the total of open cases by category (low, medium, high, and emergency). You create the chart, and everything looks fine except for the fact that when you start filtering the data you notice that the colors assigned to each category are not always the same (check the image below, if data is filtered to show only January tickets high is in red color, but if February is selected high is displayed in blue). In this quick tip we explain how to avoid this situation, and keep the color assigned to each posible value in a dimension fixed.