What is it about?

The Qlik Core Refugee Project is an open source learning project, which was created by using Qlik Core, React and Docker Container. The journey started at the Qlik Master Summit 2019 in Sweden during the hackathon with the goal to provide a valuable user experience using the Qlik Core Associative Engine and open source visualization libraries to provide insights to the refugees and migration topic around the world.

Qlik Core Installation

• Download and run Qlik Core in a container using for instance Docker Desktop for Windows https://hub.docker.com/r/qlikcore/engine/tags
• Pull the latest Qlik Core version

  $ docker run -d qlikcore/engine:$LAST_VERSION
  

• Run Core (you MUST accept the EULA)

  $ docker run -d qlikcore/engine:$LAST_VERSION -S AcceptEULA=yes 
  

• Run shell in the container

  $ docker exec -it <id-prefix> /bin/s
  

Run Webapp

• Install dependencies:

  npm install

• Start the Qlik Associative Engine in a Docker container by accepting the EULA license:

  docker-compose up -d

• Run the application:

  npm start

• Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to view the webapp.

Qlik and Data files

The data folder is containing the .qvf file including the data used for the project provided by the Qlik Master Summit team

Visualization Libraries

• Echarts - https://echarts.baidu.com/
• Picsso - https://picassojs.com/
• Vega - https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/

Credits

• UI Web Design inspirated by
  • Ekene Ijeoma
  • Hyperakt

Authors

• Patric Amatulli
• Alexander Torngren

Possible Improvements

• Enhancement of the EChart Maps with line thickness reflecting the number of persons (e.g. refugees)
• Fixing missing geo points coordinates bug in Qlik load script
• Number Fromating in Echarts
• Dynamic Year Filter in the PrimaryNews Panel (see 7 years)
• Qlik Selections on ECharts object
• Webapp performance and response time (React rendering strategy)
• On Demand Qlik Data Load
• Animated Time Series Analysis
• ...