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OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis: QlikView

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://breakinggov.com/author/brand-niemann/

July 17, 2013http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/QlikView

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Background• DRAFT White Paper for OMB Pittsburgh, July 11, 2013.• Start With the End in Mind, Avoid Tool Wars, and Develop Well-

designed Spreadsheets That Can be “Dragged and Dropped” Onto a Tool That Creates Statistics and Visualizations in the Public and Private Clouds.

• Focus on Requirements Analysis by First Comparing Magic Quadrant Leaders on Common Data Sets.

• Spotfire Was Able to Reproduce All the Tableau and Birst Data Visualizations With Dynamically Linked Visualizations.

• Broaden This Requirements Analysis to Include More Sample Data Sets and Tools.

• QlikView Is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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QlikView: Personal Edition Register

http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download?ga-link=hero

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QlikView: Download

http://us.demo.qlikview.com/download/

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QlikView Personal Edition: Client

My Note: Complicated User Interface

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QlikCommunity: Welcome

http://community.qlikview.com/community/new-to-qlikview

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QlikCommunity: Connectivity and Data Sources

http://community.qlikview.com/community/connectivity

My Note: I did not findData Sources here.

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QlikCommunity: First Application

http://community.qlikview.com/docs/DOC-4345

My Note: I found four Data Sources here:• Northwind.mdb – A Microsoft Access database that is freely and

publically available. It contains data based on a fictitious product sales organization.

• CustomerMaster.csv – A comma-separated values file containing a list of customers and their details.

• ProductMaster.xls – A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing a list of products sold by the fictitious sales organization.

• ProductCategory.txt – A text file containing the product to product group relationships.

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QlikView Personal Edition: Build Your First Application and Help

http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/24992/Build_Your_First_Application_in_QlikView_FINAL.pdfhttp://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/24990/QlikView_Reference_Manual.pdf

My Note: Cannot load multiple tab spreadsheets and Access.Requires scripting and 47 pages of documentation.Do this in Spotfire and re-create the visualization types.

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Nwind Database: Access

http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/24994/Nwind.mdb

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Nwind Database: Excel

http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/25011/Nwind.xlsx

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Nwind Database: Spotfire

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?Nwind-Spotfire

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QlikView Personal Edition:Comparison With Spotfire

Visualization Type QlikView Name Spotfire Comments

Bar Charts Comparison Yes More OptionsCombination Chart Units Yes More OptionsLine and Radar Movements Yes More OptionsPie, Mekko, & Treemap Ratio Yes More OptionsWater Fall Share Yes Tibbr collaborationTime Series Trends Yes Curves and Error BarsScatter Plots Relationship Yes More OptionsTrellis Trellis Yes More OptionsBasic, Calculated, & Pivot Tables Yes More OptionsMultiple Tables Butterfly Yes Intelligent HeadersSparklines Sparklines Yes TufteSpeedometer, etc. KPIs No Third-Party Add-ins

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HPN Health Prize: Knowledge Base

http://semanticommunity.info/HPN_Health_Prize#Spotfire_Visualizations

My Note: See multiple visualization types.

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HPN Health Prize: Spotfire

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?HPNHealthPrize-Spotfire

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Qlik Demos: Image Gallery

http://us.demo.qlikview.com/images.aspx

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Qlik Demos: Image Gallery – World Heat Map

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QlikView: Global Games

http://us.demo.qlikview.com/detail.aspx?appName=Global%20Games.qvw

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QlikView Personal Edition: Global Games

http://us.demo.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=qvdocs/Global%20Games.qvw&host=Demo11&anonymous=true

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The Guardian Data Journalism: Knowledge Base

http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/The_Guardian_Data_Journalism

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Guardian Olympic Medals-Spotfire

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GuardianOlympicMedals-Spotfire

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Some Conclusions and Recommendations

• Semantic Community Was Able to Build the QlikView Personal Edition: Build Your First Application More Readily With Spotfire Using the Nwind Access Database.

• Spotfire Is Able to Match or Exceed the Visualization Types and Their Options in QlikView.

• Semantic Community Will Continue to Use The Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader Tools and Their Sample Data Sets and to Recreate Visualizations and Dashboards.