Do you bury your head in the sand when it comes to data, or is no stone left unturned? Find out what your data personality is and how data literate you are. Now a days its so important to be data literate! Becoming data literate will improve both your chances for employment upon graduation and throughout your career. Wherever you are in your journey, it's never too late for growth!I took the quiz and found out that I am a Data Knight! What are you?! Visit to access yourself http://dataliteracy.info/quiz.After taking the quiz, you can get started to your data literacy journey by attending the classes available in the Qlik Continuous Classroom Course: Data Literacy Courses. That's not all, the Academic Program has its own data literacy materials so if you are interested in learning about Analytics or Visualizations, visit http://qcc.qlik.com/course/view.php?id=562 to access these courses and download the lecture slides if you are a professor or the handouts and activities if you are a student. Don't forget to participate in the Use Cases either! If you do not have access to this page, please reapply to the program by visiting The Qlik Academic ProgramFor questions email academicprogram@qlik.com ...View More

Swinburne University in Australia is one of the Academic Programs newest universities to join and they have already begun to utilize the programs offering for onsite presentations. James Belsey a Qlik Sales Director supports the universities in Australia and presented to students in a Database Analysis and Design class. Since joining the program Swinburne has had more than 50 students join the program and that number is rising! ...View More

This month the Academic Program was onsite at the University of Maryland presenting Qlik Sense to students from the school’s Business Analytics Consortium Program. The University of Maryland is considered a recruiting university for Deloitte so they have asked Qlik to join them in their efforts to educate the students on Qlik Sense! They are eager to ensure students from the university graduate with Qlik Sense skills so they can become potential new hires! ...View More

Across government, departments are building data capability by recruiting analysts and data scientists to support decision making, operational delivery and help deliver Government transformation. The Government Data Science Partnership has supported this activity by developing training, capability programmes and an active data science community of interest.As well as increasing the number of data specialists in government, it’s also important that other communities understand the opportunity that better use of data presents.Qlik is a big partner in many Uk government organisations and it's great to see they are taking the education on data analytics and sciences seriously with the civil service and wider groups.Full article available here; Data literacy - improving conversations about data - Data in government ...View More

Last week the Qlik Academic Program attended the induction of the undergraduate and graduate students to the Alpha Iota Delta national honors society for the Decision Sciences & Information Systems at Saint Joseph's University!The 2018 class included 64 inductions from students across the United States. To learn more about the honors society at SJU visit Alpha Iota Delta | Department of Decision & System Sciences | Saint Joseph's UniversityThe Academic Program is thrilled to announce that it will fund the undergraduates one-time membership fee into the honors society and host a scholarship contest for those in the society who are in excellent academic standing and who join the Academic Program and successfully pass the Business Analyst Exam. The contest will run until the beginning of May and the winning students will receive a scholarship towards their 2018/2019 school year. Stay tuned as we will announce a winner or winners in the following months!Included in the inducted student group was Paul Franzonia who is an SJU alumni and a Qlik employee! Paul was granted a membership as a result of his passion for continuing to support the university and encourage the students to pursue careers in Analytics just as he did! ...View More

The Qlik Academic Program is excited to announce it has officially joined the Ottawa University Center for Business Analytics and Performance provided by Telfers School of Management.Analytic Software – Centre for Business Analytics and PerformanceOttawa University joined the program in 2017 through Professor Steve Smith who uses Qlik in his Data Supply Chain class. If you would like feature Qlik on your university's website email academicprogram@qlik.com ...View More

The Qlik Academic Program attended as mentors in the American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest hosted at Stonehill College this month where students participated in a hackathon using a variety of tools including Qlik Sense!. Students participated from Bryant University, Bridgewater State, Stonehill College and UMass-Dartmouth.What is the ASA DataFest?The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. To learn more about the ASA DataFest visit https://ww2.amstat.org/education/datafest/Qlik on Twitter: "Qlik's own Caroline Sheldon and @qt_trigjoh took to #ASADATAFEST this year to help some next gen #data…If you would like Qlik to visit your universities events email academicprogram@qlik.com ...View More

According to a 2017 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Counsel, 69% of employers are seeking business graduates to fill data analytics roles within their companies. That's up from 51% in 2015. As a result, students now see the importance of being prepared to fill these roles and universities are jumping on the bandwagon to keep up. According to GMAC'S 2017 Prospective Student Survey, just under half of business school candidates say data analytics is a must-have in an ideal graduate business program.The Academic Program has long seen the importance of educating our students in analytics and ensuring that our professors have the resources they need to properly teach these students! To receive everything the program has to offer, visit https://www.qlik.com/us/company/academic-program to reapply!To learn more about the demand for data analytics and learn how universities are taking the call to action visit the full article written by Sarah Aspolson here https://view.imirus.com/209/document/12853/page/82 ...View More

I was honoured to be joined by David Bolton, VP Industry Solutions & Business Value for Qlik, he was recently promoted to this new position from his role focusing on Healthcare value, however was still as sharp as ever to speak around the key areas that Qlik helps improve efficiencies within healthcare organisations.This is the second year that David has provided the lecture for LSE and each time it is greeted with great interest from the students. Areas that David spoke around was the value of the Qlik engine to disparate data sources, examples of efficiencies in the NHS waiting times, A great example of how the Australia Government are using data to better treat patients and even discover possible issues with patients early using our software to pull multiple sources of information together on patient history.Finally, David finished the session discussing open data and how he has used it do develop applications around prescription trends in UK NHS trusts, which was very relevant to some students as some will be embarking on their thesis topics.I once again thank David and Professor Ela Klecun for the session and I look forward to the workshop in on June 21st. ...View More

The Academic Program was back onsite at Villanova University in PA (USA) this week to host a training workshop where members of the faculty from Finance, Business, and Marketing were in attendance. Qlik's very own Paul van Siclen and Jeremy Benza did a wonderful job showing Qlik's features and functionalities while guiding the professors on how to get started and begin creating their own visualizations. These professors are in the beginning stages of incorporating analytics and visualizations into their courses and there is no better place to begin than with joining the Qlik Sense Acacemic Program where they will receive free software, training, qualification exams and teaching materials to help them teach the methodologies of analytics and visualizations!If you are teaching a new course and would like to incorporate these concepts, we recommend reapplying to the program to get access to all of our amazing resources!If you are interested in a Qlik presentation or workshop please email academicprogram@qlik.com ...View More