New Qlikview Chart Type: Dynamic Network Flow Charts
Straight away I’ll say something: this is my favorite chart type amongst the several I’ve created in Qlikview over the last few years…and I only knocked it together on Monday. I’ve wanted to create a chart like this for a while but never had the time or more importantly the inspirational leap required to get … Read more
Qlikview Timescaping – A Virtual Method of Data Time Travel (*No Delorean required)
To set the scene here I’m going to get all theoretical for a moment and make a bold statement; “Time travel (of a fashion) is possible.”…and we do it everyday, you’re probably reading this on a device that can allow you to both travel back in time to places & times you’ve never been as … Read more
The Simplest of Tricks to Further Enable Qlikview Interactive Infographics. (*Still requires common sense)
Infographics; the thorniest subject in the world of data viz: are they art, are they telling the truth, do they have a use, do they engage the viewer, do they serve an agenda over the truth, or are they just for trendy media types etc. Reading many of the related blogs and articles out there … Read more
The Indexed Time Series Chart – The Forgotten Technique (At Least by Most Qlikview Developers)
I really should have posted about Indexed Charts earlier as they’re something I’ve long wanted to promote in the Qlikview world and always wondered why I’ve never before seen them deployed; with the right data they’re nigh on essential to deliver the insight users need. Why are Indexed Line Charts so useful, surely a normal … Read more
Qlikview Shared Dimension Charts a la Tableau (*With FREE Multi-Expression Trellis Chart!)
As promised in my recent ‘Upcoming Chart Types Inspired by Tableau’ post this is a detailed ‘How To’ for one of the shown chart types / techniques; displaying several charts with a shared Dimension. The original post can be seen here: http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/upcoming-new-qlikview-chart-types-inspired-by-tableau I’m sure a good number of you will already know how to do … Read more
Qonnections 2012 – The Insights, Rumor and Assumptions & What They Mean for the Future
Qonnections 2012 came to a close in South Beach Miami on Wednesday bringing to an end what seemed to be a break from the normal Qonnections affair; there seemed to be little concrete announced but there were many pointers to the future direction of Qlikview which made a welcome change. Firstly it should be said … Read more
New Qlikview Timeline Spread Analysis (aka ‘Ribbon Chart’)
What better way to celebrate the arrival of the Qonnections 2012 event inMiami(where hopefully lots of new ‘Front End’ possibilities are going to be unveiled) than with a new Qlikview chart. This chart is based on a similar principal to my recent replication of the Windows Defragmenter chart that can be found here: http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/qlikview-contiguity-chart-aka-that-chart-from-the-windows-disk-defragmenter/ However … Read more
Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte
So here we have it; a book review of one of the two Qlikview recommended ‘must reads’ (the other being Stephen Few’s ‘Information Dashboard Design’ which I’ll cover at a later date), many of you will have already heard of the work of Edward Tufte so this review is perhaps aimed more at those new … Read more
Qlikview Contiguity Chart (aka ‘That Chart From the Windows Disk Defragmenter’)
If you’re thinking: “Wow! – The Windows Defragmenter Chart in Qlikview…nigh on useless.” then don’t be too hasty; there’s far more value here than first meets the eye, this can potentially be a very useful chart as I’ll hopefully show. Of course we aren’t using this chart in the same way as Windows does, in-fact … Read more
10 Ways Charts Can Lie, Cheat & Lead Astray
Charts; they’re like photographs: they never lie, they just show the data as it is right? – wrong. In the wrong hands they can be some of the most cunning and conniving creations ever conceived by man, they’re regularly put to work to lead the gullible astray and hide the all important information held within. … Read more
