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Recently I was working on a dashboard to help myself manage my consulting time. As a consultant, my key performance metric is the percent of time I spend each week …

QlikView's out-of-the-box gauges typically have over-the-top formatting. One gauge that can be used effectively while following Tufte-esque principals is the linear gauge. With the right formatting, you can minimize the …

Like many other data professionals, I was drawn to numbers by sports. I am the prototypical stat-geek with baseball being my vice of choice. I was reading a post from …

Strip plots are a form of scatter plots using only 1 expression. When a data set is not too large, plotting every instance of a dimension over a single metric …

QlikView defines Persistent Colors as: Checking this option locks the color map so that each value has a color permanently assigned to it. There are two advantages to enabling this …

In the appendix of Stephen Few’s book Show Me the Numbers, he provides the color palette he uses throughout the book. It is broken up into three categories, which he …