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Baby steps to *really* understand link tables in Qlik and Tableau

My experience both learning and teaching about link tables is that it is hard to explain why they are what they are. You often end up resort...

Faster Smart Search, with Better Results

An occasional experience I have using large Qlik Sense applications is typing in the global search bar (AKA Smart Search) and waiting, whi...

Simple Power Query functions to troubleshoot join results

When creating the relationship between a fact and dimension in Power BI, a many-to-many relationship warning was triggered, to my surprise....

A few variables to make the metric island table solution even easier to maintain

A reader reached out using the contact page to ask how to keep the variable dropdown values from this post ( Please use this instead of Al...

Recipe for finding key words in free text

It was hard to come up with a title to describe this post, so let’s jump straight to questions this technique helps answer : What importan...

Feedforward: how to engage when people aren't using your analytic solution

first Google image search result for "feedforward" from cultofpedagogy.com Step 1: Rhetorically ask a meeting full of others who d...

What I do when I feel overwhelmed

first Google Image search result for "overwhelmed" from hbr.org   Something is going around lately with me, several associates, an...

Presentation: Hacking Qlik application performance

I (virtually) presented at QlikWorld 2021 . The format was less than ideal but understandable given the circumstances. Being fairly technica...

Why key field data types don't matter, but the values do

  There was a long-held belief in my circles that Qlik calculation performance is better in data models with numeric data type keys rather t...

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