In short, Qlik Sense is an application to help nontechnical users perform data visualization, analysis, and storytelling, within a governed environment. In this self-service BI tool, users can create simple data models and metric calculations without writing, or even seeing, one line of code. Also, Qlik Sense automatically generates cleaner, more intuitive visualizations without the need to memorize a myriad of property options.

As each new version is released, more and more features will be added to simplify tasks that were once only possible through coding. However, there will still be the need to code the more advanced data models and metric calculations. For example, users with technical aptitude will still be needed to facilitate the advanced analysis that we've seen in this book.

How we develop the load script and chart expressions remains largely unchanged between Qlik Sense and QlikView. Therefore, many data visualization tips and tricks that depend...