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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover
Book Image

QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful business intelligence platforms around, and if you want to transform data into insights, it is one of the best options you have at hand. Use this Learning Path, to explore the many features of QlikView to realize the potential of your data and present it as impactful and engaging visualizations. Each chapter in this Learning Path starts with an understanding of a business requirement and its associated data model and then helps you create insightful analysis and data visualizations around it. You will look at problems that you might encounter while visualizing complex data insights using QlikView, and learn how to troubleshoot these and other not-so-common errors. This Learning Path contains real-world examples from a variety of business domains, such as sales, finance, marketing, and human resources. With all the knowledge that you gain from this Learning Path, you will have all the experience you need to implement your next QlikView project like a pro. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • QlikView for Developers by Miguel Ángel García, Barry Harmsen • Mastering QlikView by Stephen Redmond • Mastering QlikView Data Visualization by Karl Pover
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
Index

The Balanced Scorecard consolidated data model


Similarly to the fact sheet data model, the BSC data model combines facts from various perspectives. In accordance with the strategic measures that we defined in the previous section, the BSC data model combines information from our sales, marketing, and human resources perspectives. To be specific, we store the following events in our data model's fact table:

  • Sales invoices

  • Sales credit memos

  • Sales quotes

  • Employee training

  • Employee QlikView usage

The last event is related to the personal behavior analysis that we performed in the human resources perspective in Chapter 17, Human Resources. However, instead of using a data log from RescueTime, we will use QlikView's own session and audit logs to evaluate how employees' use QlikView's applications.

It is also common to add events from the financial, working capital, and operations perspectives. In this example, as we are only measuring revenue in the financial perspective of the BSC, we use the more...