Category Archives: Visualization

Great Features In QlikView 11

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

QlikView 11 looks great. Three new features in particular are going to make great impressions: the improved Web interface (AJAX), Session Sharing, and Notes.

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The Myth and Mystery of Big Data

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

“With enough data, you can discover patterns and facts using simple counting that you can’t discover in small data using sophisticated statistical and machine learning approaches.” Link I used to assume that big data and data mining and statistics were … Continue reading →

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Can a humble Chart object get some love?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

If there was just one question I could ask at this year’s Qonnections 2011, it would be this… When are we going to see improvements to the most basic QlikView task: displaying data? Look at the following examples from competitors… … Continue reading →

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Low-Cost Data Analysis & Visualization: It’s Getting Better All The Time

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Jay Jakosky

Over the weekend I have revisited Tableau, enjoyed some success with MonetDB, tried to turn MySQL into a hundred million row data warehouse, been underwhelmed with Firebird, installed Greenplum and spent many frustrated hours with Talend Open Studio, Pentaho Kettle … Continue reading →

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NYTimes Info-Graphic

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Jay Jakosky

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Create a Bullet Graph In QlikView + Video

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Jay Jakosky

What settings do you use for the gauge and bar charts? Watch the video! Stephen Few, who spoke at the QlikView conference in April, devised the bullet graph a few years ago. A QlikView customer used bullet graphs and sparklines … Continue reading →

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Bullets from Few Rendered in QlikView

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Jay Jakosky

Stephen Few in his blog recently highlighted bullet graphs. I wanted to point out a QlikView demo application that uses this technique alongside Tufte’s sparklines. You can download and play with this application or examine the AJAX version.

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Economist InfoGraphic of the Day

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Jay Jakosky

Every day, the Economist site adds an original chart.

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Hans Rosling Is My Hero

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Jay Jakosky

I just can’t get enough of the Gapminder software, officially called Trendalyzer. The easy interface is just an enhanced scatter plot but it does the job perfectly. I think a lot of people, like me, were amazed and excited by … Continue reading →

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Interactive Information Visualization

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Jay Jakosky

Enrico Bertini at Visuale asks how important is interactivity in information visualization? As a proponent of QlikView, Spotfire, Tableau and others, I think it’s extremely important. Interactivity is the future, it’s “make or break.” I’ve been implementing speed-of-thought interactive BI … Continue reading →

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