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The Voyagers Log 03 - The Science Publishing Capital of the World
In 1638, one of the most important physics books ever written could not be printed in the country where its author lived. Galileo was under house arrest in Italy, his ideas condemned by the Church. So the manuscript was smuggled north and printed by the Elzevirs in the Dutch Republic. That is how "Two New Sciences" survived. In this third episode of The Voyager's Log, Igor Alcantara is standing in front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to talk about why so many dangerous ideas
Igor Alcantara
3 days ago2 min read


Ask Your Data This Question Before Buying AI
Sarah gets to the office at 8:47 on a Monday morning and opens her laptop to a beautiful report. It was generated overnight by the AI platform her company spent four months selecting and three months implementing. Fourteen pages. Clean charts. Confidence intervals. A ranked list of 23 customer accounts flagged as "high churn probability" in the next 90 days, each one color-coded by revenue impact. She emails the customer success team before her coffee finishes brewing. "These
Igor Alcantara
5 days ago10 min read


Free course: Consuming REST APIs with Qlik Cloud
If you've been putting off REST APIs because you weren't sure where to start, this series is for you. Seven episodes. Two real APIs - Stripe and the Qlik Cloud REST API. You'll go from HTTP basics and Postman all the way through authentication and pagination, including both connector-native Next URL and scripted cursor loops in Load Script. If you have a Qlik Cloud tenant, you have everything you need to follow along.
Mark Costa
Jun 221 min read
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