Talkin  ‘bout  Extensions    …  that  makes  Sense  

2nd  October  2015  Ralf  Becher  

Agenda  

•  Introduction •  Motivation •  How to Start? •  Find some collaborators •  Examples •  OMG JSON… •  Q & A

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About  me  

•  Principal Consultant BI / Big Data @ TIQ Solutions •  Certified QlikView Designer, Developer •  9 yrs Qlik experience, 26 years in IT •  Qlik Luminary 2014, 2015 •  QlikCommunity MVP •  Qonnections Hackathon 2014, 2nd place •  presenter at Qonnections, IRM UK ED&BI

Email: ralf.becher@tiq-solutions.de Twitter: @irregularbi Blog & hobby workbench: http://irregular.bi LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/ralfbecher

My  programmer  vita..  

My  programmer  vita,  much  beHer  

Used  lib:  vis.js  

Other extensions I’ve built using vis.js:

•  QlikView IconGraph QVPR Analysis, Rob Wunderlich http://qlikviewcookbook.com

•  Qlik Sense IconGraph

Fraud Analysis, Neo4j Data Blending (not published yet)

see visjs.org

MoLvaLon  

•  improve the Product •  don’t get stopped by missing Vizzes •  compete with others by Example (see T… hexagon) •  make the Client happy •  deliver Ah-wesomeness •  Think outside the box

Think geeky Think Data Science … à use JavaScript for transformation and aggregation

•  Learn! •  Have fun coding

How  to  start?  

•  Qlik Sense Dev Help ..learning by example

How  to  start?  

•  …go branch.qlik.com: •  search for an initial

example you can start from

•  engage and collaborate to fix / add features

•  fork from GitHub to build your own

How  to  start?  

•  Look for JavaScript viz libs: Don’t invent the wheel again!

•  jQuery plugins •  d3js.org •  nvd3.org •  c3js.org •  dygraphs.com •  Rickshaw •  Cubism.js •  Raphaël •  sigma.js

D3.js  –  Examples  and  Tutorials  

•  Find a visualisation http://d3js.org/ https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery

•  Harness existing code •  Convert from D3 to

Sense – Tutorial http://blog.axc.net/tutorial-how-to-build-a-qlik-sense-extension-with-d3/

The  results  of  your  work….  

How it feels when you make your first selection using your own built extension:

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Hexagonal  Binning  

Extensions that makes Sense..

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Find  collaborators  

•  Cooper Software •  Twitter: @brian_booden •  Qonnections Hackathon 3rd place •  Qlik Sense extensions

•  Hexagonal Binning

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Brian Booden Speros Kokenes •  Axis Group

•  Blog: http://blog.axc.net/ •  Twitter: @sperosck •  Qonnections Hackathon winner •  SenseUtils.js and Lasso.js •  QlikView and Sense extensions

•  D3 Visualization Library

Hexagonal  Binning  

Demo Time…

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2  Dimensional  Heatmap  

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Dependency  Wheel  /  Chord  

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OMG  JSON  

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•  Howto JSON: •  use a connector •  JavaScript /

Python is very powerful

•  easy to build transformations

•  build tools for your analytics /data science environment

Q  &  A  

•  Download Hexagonal Binning for Qlik Sense at Qlik Branch

•  http://branch.qlik.com/projects/showthread.php?351-Hexagonal-Binning

Questions?