omb data visualization tool requirements analysis: qlikview
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OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis: QlikView. Dr. Brand Niemann Director and Senior Data Scientist Semantic Community http://semanticommunity.info/ AOL Government Blogger http://breakinggov.com/author/brand-niemann/ July 17, 2013 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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 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.