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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 http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/QlikView 1

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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. 2

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QlikView: Personal Edition Register http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download?ga-link=hero 3

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QlikView: Download 4 http://us.demo.qlikview.com/download/

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QlikView Personal Edition: Client 5 My Note: Complicated User Interface

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QlikCommunity: Welcome 6 http://community.qlikview.com/community/new-to-qlikview

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QlikCommunity: Connectivity and Data Sources 7 http://community.qlikview.com/community/connectivity My Note: I did not find Data Sources here.

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QlikCommunity: First Application 8 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 9 http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/24992/Build_Your_First_Application_in_QlikView_FINAL.pdf http://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 10 http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/24994/Nwind.mdb

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Nwind Database: Excel 11 http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/25011/Nwind.xlsx

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Nwind Database: Spotfire 12 https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?Nwind-Spotfire

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QlikView Personal Edition: Comparison With Spotfire Visualization TypeQlikView NameSpotfireComments Bar ChartsComparisonYesMore Options Combination ChartUnitsYesMore Options Line and RadarMovementsYesMore Options Pie, Mekko, & TreemapRatioYesMore Options Water FallShareYesTibbr collaboration Time SeriesTrendsYesCurves and Error Bars Scatter PlotsRelationshipYesMore Options Trellis YesMore Options Basic, Calculated, & PivotTablesYesMore Options Multiple TablesButterflyYesIntelligent Headers Sparklines YesTufte Speedometer, etc.KPIsNoThird-Party Add-ins 13

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HPN Health Prize: Knowledge Base 14 http://semanticommunity.info/HPN_Health_Prize#Spotfire_Visualizations My Note: See multiple visualization types.

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HPN Health Prize: Spotfire 15 https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?HPNHealthPrize-Spotfire

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Qlik Demos: Image Gallery 16 http://us.demo.qlikview.com/images.aspx

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Qlik Demos: Image Gallery World Heat Map 17

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QlikView: Global Games 18 http://us.demo.qlikview.com/detail.aspx?appName=Global%20Games.qvw

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QlikView Personal Edition: Global Games 19 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 20 http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/The_Guardian_Data_Journalism

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Guardian Olympic Medals-Spotfire 21 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. 22