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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Abhishek Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

This brings us to the end of the chapter. In this chapter, we learned how to set up folders for our app, and how to create it on QlikView. Then, we learned how to import data into QlikView from Excel files. We learned about various terms in QlikView, such as facts, dimensions, and list boxes. We learned how to create new tabs in our application and how to sort them. Finally, we learned how to add filters to our application to sort our data properly.

In the next chapter, we will look at how to create data models in QlikView.