The Academic Program is excited to announce that we released a global press release today that features information about all of the programs new resources and feedback from students and professors who have successfully shared in the benefit of becoming members!Sneak Peek...“By participating in the Qlik Academic Program, these students are not only making themselves more marketable, but they’re prepared to stand out in today’s competitive workforce and set the new standard as the next generation of data literate business leaders driving the analytics economy.”For the full article visithttps://www.qlik.com/us/company/press-room/press-releases/0103-qlik-expands-academic-programWe encourage you to share this article through social media! ...View More

Data literacy is everywhere, but don’t know where to begin? Start with a curious mind....It has been said that curiosity killed the cat, well, in the case of data and analytics, curiosity brings success.In the world of data and analytics, we are hearing a lot more about data literacy, and the reality is, data literacy is vitally important to companies and their cultures to succeed, but most people are asking: where do we begin? There are many steps and things that can be done to build the right data literate culture, infusing success in data literacy throughout an organization, but there is a certain mindset that needs to permeate throughout the organization: curiosity. What does it mean to be curious within analytics? Why is curiosity such a vital mindset to have within the world of data literacy?Did you know the Academic Program offers a Data Analytics course that delves into Data Literacy?! Professors and students can review the course materials by visiting the Course: Academic Program Learning Resources.NOTE: If you do not have access you can reapply to the program by visiting https://www.qlik.com/us/company/academic-programTo read the full article written by Jordan Marrow (Qlik Global Head of Data Literacy) visit Looking to be Data Literate? Begin with Curiosity! | Qlik Blog ...View More

Did you know about Qlik | Help ?! The Help page is dedicated to ensure you are equipped with all the resources and knowledge necessary to be successful with Qlik Sense or any other Qlik product you might be working with!After using the free training from the Qlik Continuous Classroom, the Help page is a great resources which provides videos, tutorials, guides, demos, and much more! Plus its available in multiple languages!Save this link Qlik | Help and remember to take advantage of the Help site when in need! ...View More

Data Science is a new and growing field, but what exactly is it? In this digital world of data, the Internet of Things, and more, there is one term which seems to come up everywhere: Data Science.Data Science has taken on a life of its own, bringing immense value to organizations when utilized correctly - but what does it mean? And how should organizations embrace it? I recently asked an industry thought leader and expert on this topic, Marie Clark of Ambient Intelligence, to help define and shed light on this curious world.To read the full article written by Jordan Marrow (Qlik Global Head of Data Literacy) visit Data Science: The New Art | Qlik Blog ...View More

At an International conference on Data Science and Analytics ( ICDSA '17) organised by Department of Computer Science of Rathinam College, Coimbatore, Dr. Siddhartha Ghosh, Kandula Neha and Ballari Saha from Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad presented a paper of 'Data Analytics in Academics' explaining the challenges and issues faced by the academic community in analytics. This paper was among the final 120 papers selected from a total of 215 papers received by the organisers. Papers from the conference are being published in the ICT Academy, Bonfring and IJSER Journal. The publication has been undertaken by Coimbatore Institute of Information Technology, ISBN 978-1-941505-70-0The researchers presented the various tools and technologies used most commonly in academics. They made some sample analysis using Qlik Sense of data using in educational institutions such as placement data, test results,faculty data and visualised their findings with the help of various charts and graphs in Qlik Sense. They also demonstrated how associations can reveal connections between various data sets thus demonstrating the potency of the patented Qlik Associative Indexing technology.In the words of the researchers, following are their concluding remarks- This paper gives an overview of the Qlik Sense and its application the field of academics. It explores data deeply and shares insights instantly and reveal connections in the data to see opportunities visualized through charts, bar graphs, pie charts, histograms etc. The learning and understanding to look at data with new visualization options enriched us with data analytics in modern world and its application in academics. ...View More

For several months now myself along with colleagues from the Academic Program and our industry partners Accenture, have been working to build a Data Challenge; a Hackathon if you will but with a focus on students who aren't specifically from Computer Science backgrounds.In conjuncture with the University of Bath, we arranged to run a two day session looking to provide students skills on key topics in Data Analytics and get hands on with some real world data. Invitations to the event were sent to the Business Analytics and MBA students, with around 40 students in attendance with teams of 3-4.What was the challenge?Participants were to use data provided by Qlik from the moviedatabase.com, along with the wealth of resources and data available on the internet around Netflix's catalogue, to design a schedule of releases for next year based on what the students decided would be popular films from the data. Finally they were to come up with an original content idea as this is where Netflix make the most margin from their investments.Day 1The first day consisted of introductions from Qlik and Accenture, covering topics around industry use of BI tools and techniques, customer case studies and finally a workshop using Qlik Sense. The workshop was designed to show participants features of Qlik including;- Data loading- Data modelling- Data visualisation.Day 2Day 2 was the main day, a 6 hour data challenge to bring together the students new knowledge in Qlik Sense and use the movie database and other resources available to them online to answer the brief. The students were scored out of 10 on 5 different areas;1. Quality of Dashboard2. Data Model structure3. Presentation structure and content4. Has the team answered the question?5. Original Netflix content ideaOutcomeIt was an opportunity for everyone involved to try something that we hadn't explored before. The University of Bath was for them a chance to improve students knowledge of data analytics, team work and the real world data challenges.Accenture were provided an opportunity to show themselves as a major future player in the analytics space and hopefully to persuade some students to come and work with them.For Qlik, a chance to help students in their career paths and for me to understand the complexities in organising a data challenge and ultimately to provide a group of students a small insight the future data economy and improve their data literacy.A huge thanks must go out to those that helped me organise this, Deniz Kog, Aylar Charyyarova and Jian Yi Oh from Accenture. Martin Royds from Qlik and finally Gunes Erdogen from The University of Bath, who made this event possible. ...View More

Recently, the Academic Program has seen a good number of University enrollments from the South of India particularly in Bangalore and Coimbatore. Some of the top ranked higher educational institutions in the country are also from the South of India. In Bangalore, the academic program has a footprint in educational institutions such as BMSIT, Christ University, Jain University, SIBM Bangalore.Coimbatore city which is one of the major hubs of higher education in the South has a presence of more than 50 institutions from engineering, management, medicine, pharmacy, arts and humanities faculties. The academic program has built its engagement with some of the well known Universities such as Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Karpagam, Sri Krishna College of Technology, SREC, Kumaraguru College of Technology. Students and Professors from these institutions have enrolled for the program and continue to develop their data analytics skills through the resources offered under the program and pursue the path of data literacy. ...View More

The Academic Program was onsite at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia to present Qlik Sense to students from the BIT (Business Information and Technology) Society. The students consisted of Juniors and Seniors studying Business Analytics who are interested in learning more about Qlik Sense capabilities and everything the Academic Program has to offer.The students were very impressed by Qlik's The Associative Differenceand they were eager to join the program because they indicated Qlik Sense looked more robust than other tools they have seen before.The Qlik presenters included former Saint Joseph's Alumni and members of the Academic Program. The Qlik team attended several presentations that day including courses whose professors and students have already joined the program and are utilizing Qlik Sense. If you are interested in hosting a Qlik presentation please email academicprogram@qlik.com ...View More

Student Supply Employer DemandAccording to a report published by the Business-Higher Education Forum BHEF, “…by 2021, 69% of employers expect candidates with DSA skills to get preference for jobs in their organizations. Yet only 23% of college and university leaders say their graduates will have those skills.” It’s important to understand that this gap does not just apply to data scientists in training looking for jobs in Silicon Valley. We are all living in a big data world, and Data Science and Analytical skills will soon be fundamental at every level of the workforce from entry-level to CEO.To help solve this skills gap the Academic Program provides FREE analytics training available in the Qlik Continuous Classroom and FREE Data Analytics Curriculum materials for professors and students to learn the what, why, and how of analytics. Access these resources by logging into the QCC using your Qlik username and selecting “Academic Program” on the top menu of the QCC homepage. Share The Qlik Academic Program to friends or colleagues who are new to analytics and need a place to get started! ...View More

Data literacy is a journey, one that students and professors are starting to attack head on. Thanks to the Academic Program, professors and students can become data literate for free! If you don't have an active membership we encourage you and others to visit The Qlik Academic Program to apply!To read the new article about Data Literacy visit https://blog.qlik.com/data-literacy-the-results-are-in ...View More