Connecting to Qlik Sense with Python

While the Qlik platform has maintained and supported libraries developer libraries in JavaScript and .NET/C# for several years, they have more recently released a library for interacting with Qlik in Python. They call it the Platform SDK, which is also available as a...

Using Geo Functions to Aggregate Coordinates

In this post, I want to look at how to use a few of the built-in Qlik GeoAnalytics functions that will allow us to manipulate and aggregate geographic data. Specifically, we are going to look at how to calculate a bounding box for several grouped geographic points,...

JavaScript Bookmarklets that supercharge Qlik Sense

One of the most-utilized features of web browsers is the bookmark; everyone has their favorite sites saved for later, but that’s really their only function – to navigate you. What if you wanted to have a bookmark that, instead of simply taking you to...

Qlik Cloud Updates: Bar Chart Font Styling

The latest update to Qlik Cloud includes some great updates, continuing the trend of getting more styling options, something I’ve always wanted more of. This update gives up font family, size, and color for bar chart axes — see a quick glance at the...

How to Un-pivot a Table in Qlik Sense

One of my biggest annoyances when it comes to cleaning data is needing to make a transformation that is seemingly super easy but turns out to be much more involved when it comes time to implement. I’ve found that while Qlik is not immune to these scenarios, you can...