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January 21, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning – these buzzwords are now all over the press, the Internet and social media. In the process of outsourcing everything possible, we are now actively outsourcing human intelligence, replacing it with machines. Oh wait, that sounded wrong. Perhaps we are just trying to make our work easier and more productive, constantly […]
December 17, 2018
If you’re like me, you probably manage your expressions in variables that you store in an external variables table rather than defining them directly in the Data Load Editor. This allows for all your variables to be easily accessible in one place, so you can always review and edit them. Variables still play an important […]
February 8, 2018
Natural Synergies, Inc., a North American BI consulting firm, is proud to announce its new partnership with Chilean BI firm Analytics10. Analytics10 is one of the leading BI consulting companies that focuses on the Qlik® platform and delivers Qlik® Business Intelligence solutions in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and across Latin America. Analytics10 Academy provides specialized training […]
May 9, 2017
It’s been a while since I had a chance to write a blog article… I can’t complain though, because preparing and delivering the Masters Summit for Qlik in Munich was a lot of fun. I also took a few days off and jumped to Prague, which was awesome! Interesting discovery (at least to myself) – in Prague, […]
December 20, 2016
Ever since the introduction of Derived Fields in Qlik Sense, I was curious – what’s so special about them? Are they different from any other fields that are stored in your data set? Are they stored or calculated on the fly? Do they work equally well in Chart dimensions, in Filters, and in Set Analysis […]
October 27, 2016
It’s been a while since I found an interesting topic, worthy of a blog article… This Q-Tip originated from a question that we received at the Masters Summit for Qlik in Ausitn, TX. Here is the question: Hmm… at first I was puzzled and couldn’t even come up with a direction for the possible […]
May 16, 2016
Hi everyone – QlikView and Qlik Sense developers, beginners and experts, those who usually ask questions on Qlik Community and those who usually answer them. Today I’d like to talk about one of the most mysterious issues of all (at least, this is how it looks like on the Qlik Community forums) – using the AGGR() […]
December 29, 2015
Apologies to my blog followers for a long period of silence. Needless to say, I’ve been busy – among other things, working on converting our Masters Summit for QlikView into all new, freshly re-designed Masters Summit for Qlik. The difference may sound subtle, but in reality, a lot of preparation work is happening as we speak. […]
September 15, 2015
This article was sparkled by this discussion thread on Qlik Community. The question was: how to calculate the difference between dates that are stored in consecutive rows of a table? Three answers to the question suggested three different approaches. Let’s analyze what’s right, what’s wrong and does it matter at all? We typically use values from […]