On Demand App Generation (ODAG) was an approach introduced in Qlik Sense 3.0 to use the Qlik Analytic Platform (QAP) APIs to create Qlik Sense applications for very large or frequently changing data sets.
What is Big Data? Thinking about a definition suitable for me
I recently worked on an app that was loading from several hundred gigabytes of CSVs, and attempting to perform expensive transformations on these files in Qlik Sense. Normally this isn’t a problem, but due to the way the transformation was written, the result was a saturated server…and I found myself reflecting what “Big Data” means to different people (and to myself).
A recruiter’s post on LinkedIn also made me chuckle, as it highlights the disparity between definitions well. From my view of big data, I doubt that someone working in that field is likely to be interested in a role where one of the three core job skills is Excel…
My observation is that there are two camps – one side that classifies using the “V’s”, and another using an altogether simpler definition! Continue reading “What is Big Data? Thinking about a definition suitable for me”
