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Mastering QlikView Data Visualization

By : Karl Pover
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Mastering QlikView Data Visualization

By: Karl Pover

Overview of this book

Just because you know how to swing a hammer doesn't mean you know how to build a house. Now that you've learned how to use QlikView, it's time to learn how to develop meaningful QlikView applications that deliver what your business users need. You will explore the requirements and the data from several business departments in order to deliver the most amazing analysis and data visualizations. In doing so, you will practice using advanced QlikView functions, chart object property options, and extensions to solve real-world challenges.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering QlikView Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customer Fact sheet Agile design


We aim to involve our business users from the beginning of the customer fact sheet design. As a non-technical, collaborative process, we use Agile project tools, such as Post-It notes and a whiteboard to begin the design process. We begin by writing user stories that we think would be important to include in the fact sheet on Post-It notes.

Creating user stories

The user epic we want to solve with our customer fact sheet is as follows:

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As a sales representative, I need an easy way visualize all the information related to a customer and its relationship to the business so that I can plan more productive customer calls and meetings.

This user epic then gets broken down into the following user stories that we can eventually translate into a type of data visualization:

  • As a sales representative, I need to compare this year's accumulated sales against last year's sales so that I can detect changes to our customers' buying habits

  • As a sales representative, I need...