OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis: QlikView Dr. Brand Niemann Director and Senior Data Scientist Semantic Community AOL Government Blogger July 17,

Background DRAFT White Paper for OMB Pittsburgh, July 11, 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

QlikView: Personal Edition Register 3

QlikView: Download 4

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

QlikCommunity: Welcome 6

QlikCommunity: Connectivity and Data Sources 7 My Note: I did not find Data Sources here.

QlikCommunity: First Application 8 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.

QlikView Personal Edition: Build Your First Application and Help 9 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.

Nwind Database: Access 10

Nwind Database: Excel 11

Nwind Database: Spotfire 12

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

HPN Health Prize: Knowledge Base 14 My Note: See multiple visualization types.

HPN Health Prize: Spotfire 15

Qlik Demos: Image Gallery 16

Qlik Demos: Image Gallery – World Heat Map 17

QlikView: Global Games 18

QlikView Personal Edition: Global Games 19

The Guardian Data Journalism: Knowledge Base 20

Guardian Olympic Medals-Spotfire 21

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