Recently I watched a webinar organised by Snowflake, it was called "Data Warehouse Automation, Ingestion and Industry Leading Analytics with Snowflake and Qlik". In the past I could never find time for webinars, and it's amazing how life can give you opportunities to...
In recent weeks I have been writing training material for an introductory course for Qlik Sense Cloud. The training course is aimed at business users. It teaches the basic data discovery capabilities available in the Qlik Sense Cloud application. It also gets users...
Recently, I have been spending some time learning QlikSense. This time happened to coincide with a 3-day free trial Qlik was having for their Continuous Classroom. This created an opportunity to compare free and paid content. This is a quick rundown or whether or not...
Welcome to part 5 of this series. Here we start Qlik’s module 4 which will cover the App Development and Visualisation side of Qlik; the fun side. The introduction blogs before this were – Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; and Part 4. The resources I am going to use for my self...
Welcome to part 4 of this series. Here we start Qlik's module 3 which will cover Data loading, Scripting, & Modelling. The introduction blogs before this were - Part 1; Part 2; and Part 3. The resources I am going to use for my self paced lessons are – 11x Qlik...
Generating data in Qlik is a simple, but useful trick. There are custom scripts you can write entirely yourself, but today we are going to use Qlik's automated scripting. To do this, we need to make our app or navigate to the app we want to use. We then want to use...
Welcome to Part 3 in this series which will move us into learning about Qlik features, in their terms Module 2. Parts 1 and 2 of this series were focused on introduction to Qlik, Module 1 - see below for a recap on topics we have already covered. Qlik Features The...
This is part 2 of my Beginners guide to learning Qlik Sense, Part 1 can be found here. In the first 8 video we covered a lot of ground so if you're unfamiliar with any of the following, I suggest you go give it a look. Know the difference between Dimensions and...
When using Qlik, you may need to profile or categorize your numerical data. This makes it easy to convert continuous data into discrete data. With Qlik, this can be easily accomplished during data load using the Qlik Buckets card. Simply select the table with the data...
Qlik Sense is a powerful tool for visualizing and analyzing data. It also has a strong support base and is heavily documented. This means it is ideal for self paced teaching. In the next few blogs, I will be documenting my progress and the resources I use in hopes...