Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
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My name is Karl Pover and I would like to welcome you to my website. I’ve been a data discovery consultant since 2006. The data discovery tool I use the most is QlikView. The goal of this blog is to organize and share my thoughts, experiences and expectations within the realm of data discovery.
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
Before I continue with my blog series about becoming a Qlik Sense Developer, I’d like to share my current progress and confirm that it has been well worth the extra time and effort. I’ve found out that there are manifold ways to apply web development skills to extend Qlik Sense’s functionality. For example, you can ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
The book, Mastering QlikView Data Visualization, happens to be my lost adventures as a QlikView consultant. I haven’t promoted it much because after two years of writing, I was too anxious to run off to learn other skills. A year and a half after its publication, QlikView is still popular and customers continue to look ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
At this point, I have the motivation to become a Qlik Sense developer, a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and rudimentary knowledge on how to create a simple Qlik Sense extension. The only piece I’m missing is an idea about what great purpose my first Qlik Sense extension would serve. I thought about creating a ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
Learning a new skill while on the job is difficult. For the past 6 months, I’ve been swamped doing what I’ve happily done for the last 12 years: QlikView. Luckily, I’ve involved others like Julian Villafuerte in my decision to become a Qlik Sense developer and that makes it easier. At the time of writing ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
I’m continuously updating the list of learning resources at the end of this post, and tag my latest updates as new. As a QlikView developer, I relish the freedom that QlikView gives me to customize the look and feel of a single chart or the layout of an entire dashboard. On the surface, Qlik Sense simplifies the creation of visual ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
QlikView developers (as per the book QlikView 11 for Developers) were those of us who wrote load scripts, designed data models, formulated expressions, and manipulated QlikView objects. Qlik Help has now left that group of people nameless and deemed developers to be those who work with either QlikView or Qlik Sense APIs using some third-party code. Even so, I still consider ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
In my previous post about my company’s migration to Qlik Sense Cloud Business, I described my frustration about having to manually upload data to my company’s workspace. I also expressed my belief that Qlik Sense Cloud would grow as fast as Qlik could develop data connectors for it. In his comment to the post, I think Aaron Couron summarized ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
Last week I accidentally published this post before going to bed and woke up the next morning with a nice surprise that people had visited the post when it was still supposed to be a draft. I apologize for this leak and plan to catch those brain cells responsible for wasting your time. As a ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
Last week, I gave the business case for using an exponential distribution to predict a customer’s purchase frequency and detect at-risk and lost customers, Sales Analytics in Qlik: From the Basics to Statistical Modeling. In this week’s post, we go over the details of calculating and visualizing the exponential distribution in QlikView using the following chart ..read more
Harvesting Wisdom | A rumination on data discovery by Karl Pover
3w ago
The basics The most common Qlik application involves sales data analysis. Period. Well, I don’t have enough information to back that up, and since data analysis is my life, I can’t make unsupported claims without some major nervous facial twitching (or so my wife says). However, I would bet based on personal experience that it is ..read more