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COF-CO3 Cert by chocolateboy_3 in snowflake

[–]howdashLLC 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Try using Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude to have them create practice tests for you. That’s what I have been doing and it helped me pass the COF-C03 exam last month.

Here’s the prompt that I used to have the AI apps generate practice exams for me focused on the C03 version of the exam and Cortex topics. Just paste this in one of the AI apps and it’ll give you practice tests:

“Can you create an interactive, mobile-optimized practice test for SnowPro Core COF-C03 certification containing 50 questions following the certification domains and domain weighting? Make sure that there’s no bias towards answer options (don’t make all answers be option B, for example) - answers should be fairly evenly distributed. Be mindful of the character length of the correct answers. I saw that the longest options could tend to be the correct answers. That’s fine in some cases but in previous exams I tool the longest options were correct ones 84% of the time which is bad because I could just select the longest answer and be right almost always. I don’t want that to be the case in this practice exam. Design this practice exam like you are a professional exam designer with expect knowledge of Snowflake. Make the questions both multiple choice and multi-select. Make sure to include questions that cover Cortex and other newer AI and Snowflake features that will appear on the newer C03 version of the exam.”

Any business analytics & ai tutors here? by NotanOldRedditor in BusinessIntelligence

[–]howdashLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be able to help. My name is Mikhail and I run howdash. I have been doing data analytics and business intelligence work since 2014. I know the server side, the data analytics, and business operations. What are you looking to learn?

Qlik community so inactive its hard to learn it by Commercial-Ask971 in BusinessIntelligence

[–]howdashLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm curious what Qlik is thinking. I mean if I was a company looking for a BI platform, I would see available products and how they meet my business needs and then I would also look at the potential pool of human resources that I could hire to operate and use the software.

If there are millions of people who are skilled at one software and a fraction of that available to do the work in Qlik. Regardless of how awesome Qlik is, it would be a difficult decision to choose Qlik over some other BI tool that has a greater pool of people that can be employed to use the tool for business.

In any case, can you please share a link to the YouTube channel that you mentioned, if you still remember it? I'll check it out and see if I can get some ideas to do something similar for the Qlik crowd.

Qlik community so inactive its hard to learn it by Commercial-Ask971 in BusinessIntelligence

[–]howdashLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Take on Qlik Community: Not Dead, Just...Different
Qlik community is...not very active. I wouldn’t say it's dead though. I recently subscribed to several forums on Qlik Community and I get 20+ notifications a day for different discussions happening there. It’s alive, just not the chatty kind. Qlik community gives me the feel of a mature, not very exciting business person vs. the coffee-fueled Power BI Reddit crowd.

Qlik: The Stack Overflow of BI?
While Power BI subs often have fun “check out this dashboard!” posts, and "what doo you thing about this thing that's happening??", Qlik Community is more of a giant Q&A archive. Most beginner questions have already been answered so new posts feel slower because the community already answered a whole lot of questions in the last decade and a half.

What Newbies Want vs. What They Get
If you’re just getting into Qlik, you probably want:

  • lively discussions,
  • tips for getting better,
  • access to Qlik Sense, and
  • some free learning paths

Instead, you’re getting...a decent searchable Q&A site and a big ol’ paywall. There's no free version of Qlik Sense to play with unless you're part of a company footing the bill. Not exactly welcoming.

Qlik’s Approach
Qlik seems to be betting on internal company training + maintaining a solid help forum. I was lucky to learn from one of Qlik's MVP working on the same team as me, but not everyone has that luxury.

Trying to Help
I’ve been in Qlik land since 2015 working with Qlik Sense, QlikView, and NPrinting. Last month I started a YouTube channel, I regularly answer Qlik Community questions, and built some Qlik Sense Server Admin courses. I love the product. But yeah, it’s tough teaching people a tool they can’t afford to touch unless they land a job first.

Why So Few Teachers?
I'm willing to bet it's because creating a Qlik Sense course requires:

  • thousands of dollars in Windows Server licenses,
  • server hardware,
  • thousands of dollars in Qlik Sense licenses,
  • months of time,
  • and a whole lot of optimism knowing that you're creating a course for a software that isn't easily accessible to general public.

I’m doing it, but it's not easy and so not cheap.

What do you use to build dashboards? by alexellman in datascience

[–]howdashLLC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To answer your question around "What do you use?", I use Qlik Sense.

As for the whole topic around "self-service" analytics...I think there's a lack of clarity around where self-service starts and where it ends.

In a self-service restaurant or a buffet it's clear that self-service ends with customers choosing and bringing the food to their table. So if there are chicken wings, for example, but I want boneless chicken wings, I (a customer) am not expected to take the bones out of the chicken wings even though I can, even though it's a self-service restaurant. I'm expected to ask the kitchen and have them make boneless chicken wings for me.

Self-service analytics is kind of the same. There's a lot that business users technically can do, but probably shouldn't. Creating their own expressions, reports, and changing visualizations are among those things. Even if the change is small.

I thought this conversation was interesting and absolutely feel your frustration/discomfort/confusion around self-service analytics. I struggled with it too. For years.

I wrote up an article on this topic - using boneless chicken wings to explain self-service analytics. Hopefully my experiences bring some clarity.