A handy Excel shortcut comes with a hidden pitfall.
Is Self-Service a Disservice?
Is the hottest trend in BI taking us all in the wrong direction?
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Tagged Best Practices, BI, Full-Service, Guided Analytics, Rants, Self-Service
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Tug of War: When 100% is Not Really 100%
Adding new customer opportunities to market share visualizations.
Hanging Rootograms & Chandelier Plots
Meet the little-known cousins of the histogram!
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Visualization
Tagged Chandelier, Distribution, Histogram, Lollipop Plot, QlikView, Rootogram, Statistics
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Top N: We Can Do Better
The case for showing slices of data more intelligently.
Violin Plots: What They Are and Why You Should Care
Continuing our series on little-known charts and how to implement them in QlikView!
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Visualization
Tagged Box Plot, Density Plot, Distribution, QlikView, Statistics, Violin Plot
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Dots & Lollipops
Easily create dot plots and lollipop plots in QlikView!
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Visualization
Tagged Dot Plot, Dumbbell Plot, Lollipop Plot, QlikView
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The Correct Way to Compare QTD to the Previous Quarter
How leveraging simple math tricks can dramatically increase the accuracy of your Quarter to Date (QTD) versus Previous/Prior Quarter to Date (PQTD) comparisons.
Neatly Visualize a Year of Data
How to solve a common visualization challenge with the help of an unlikely ally: the humble radar chart.
Posted in Visualization
Tagged Award Travel, data visualization, QlikView, Radar Charts, Singapore Suites, Travel Hacking
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Saving on Clicks: Selectively Recovering the QlikView Session Components Your Users Care About
Leverage the power of inputfields to automatically take each user back to the views/selections he or she uses most. This tip is sure to win you popularity contests!
