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Top 10 Viz tips - part III - QlikWorld 2020

Patric_Nordstrom — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:34:48 GMT

At QlikWorld 2020 I'm hosting a session called "Top 10 Visualization tips". Here's the app I used with all tips including test data. Tip titles, more details in app:

* Charts *
Parliament diagram
Scatter with trackline
Calendar Graph - Month view
Calendar Graph - Year view
Meteogram
Spiral plot
Rank chart
Slope graph
Timeline chart
Candlestick chart
Range chart
Ridgeline chart
Stream Graph
Chord diagram
Coxcomb chart
Race chart

* UI tweaks
Toolbar toggle
Hide toolbar
Hide selection bar
Hide sheet title
Hide popup buttons
Hide Pivot buttons
Hide search bar
Hide three nav
Watermark
Center titles
Highlight rows
Larger scrollbars

* Dev tips*
Scatter overlap
Persistent colors
Color thresholds
Trellis container
Responsive and mobile tips
Include from Github
Tooltip table
Radial bar charts
100% bar charts
Title and text matters more than we think
Thumbnails
Quarterly month average
Image to chart
Magic quadrant
Link to app

I want to emphasize that many of the tips are invented by others than me, I tried to credit the original author at all places when possible. Many of the tips have been published before on the Qlik Community, the app below can be viewed as my current top picks.

If you liked it, here's more in the same style:

24 days of visualization Season III, II, I
Top 10 Tips Part X, IX, VIII, VII, VI, V, IV, III, II , I
Let's make new charts with Qlik Sense
FT Visual Vocabulary Qlik Sense version
Similar but for Qlik GeoAnalytics : Part III, II, I

Thanks,
Patric

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

AntonioCostantino — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:15:55 GMT

Wonderful!

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

oknotsen — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:06:52 GMT

... and no extensions used!

Great work! Very useful demo of how to use the default stuff for not so default looking things.

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

TZ-Lucas — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:12:38 GMT

Great work! Very useful demo of how to use the default stuff for not so default looking things.

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

tpulikk1 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:48:48 GMT

This is incredible! Thankyou so much for this.

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

sergio_loza — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:29:33 GMT

Always a highlight of Qlik Conference !

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

hphaidemann — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:04:57 GMT

Hi@Patric_Nordstrom ,

I did appreciate your app, but it would be even better if you could share here the QlikWorld 2020 video where you presented the application.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Huberto Pereira Haidemann

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

acardella — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:58:38 GMT

😍

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

Patric_Nordstrom — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:14:57 GMT

@hphaidemann the video is available on-demand from the QlikWorld website. Rgeister to get access, it's free to access.

https://vshow.on24.com/vshow/Qlik_Virtual_Forum/#home

Thanks,

Patric

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

hphaidemann — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:14:57 GMT

Thanks for your reply @Patric_Nordstrom, but my point was to make it available here to be accessible after the event. I watched it but many Qlik fans might not have the chance.

Regards,

Huberto Pereira Haidemann

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

tobydbaker — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:33:20 GMT

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

sergio_loza — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:46:40 GMT

@Patric_Nordstrom

do you know how long the webinars will be up for registered users?

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

124rooski — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:14:51 GMT

@Patric_Nordstrom Thank you for this post. This is eye opening and made me realize the unlimited capability of Qlik. I thoroughly enjoyed this breakout session!

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

andrejfreitas — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:25:57 GMT

Good work!

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

Patric_Nordstrom — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:07:12 GMT

No worries, If the on-demand expires I will post a link to the recorded session.

Thanks,

Patric

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

acharya09 — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:11:38 GMT

I am new to Qlik and this looks a great help . However , I am not able to download the qvf. Something that I am missing ?

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

hphaidemann — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:32:12 GMT

No, @acharya09 . You just click in the arrow on the right of the file and it should work.

I just tested and it worked for me again.

By the way, check the following links, you might find them very useful as well.

Top 10 Viz tricks - Qonnections 2019: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-Documents-Videos/Top-10-Viz-tricks-Qonnections-2019/ta-p/1580174

Top 10 Viz tricks - Part 2: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-Documents-Videos/Top-10-Viz-tricks-Part-2/ta-p/1642330

Top 10 QGA tricks, Qonnections 2019: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-GeoAnalytics-Documents/Top-10-QGA-tricks-Qonnections-2019/ta-p/1581145

Regards,

Huberto Pereira Haidemann

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

killersswang — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:32:49 GMT

incredible and amazing ,Thank you so much for this, really help to create visualization .

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

PolBe — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:08:40 GMT

I am not able to add qvf file via QMS. getting this error:

can you please advice? I don't have Qlik Sense Desktop version

Re: Top 10 Visualization tips - QlikWorld 2020

GrzegorzJudycki — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:38:53 GMT

Is the Testdata.zip required for the use of the application _Top 10 Viz Tips - QlikWorld 2020.qvf ?

Where shoul I put these excel files with data?

(edit: sorry for grammar mistake :-))