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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

Chapter 9. Balanced Scorecard

Over the course of this book, we learned how to analyze business data through various perspectives. We started with the sales perspective and then went on to develop visualizations for financial, marketing, working capital, operations, and human resources perspectives. Then we brought several perspectives together in a fact sheet that analyzed a customer through a sales representative's point of view.

Our next step is to unite the most pertinent perspectives and analyze the business as a whole from a business owner's point of view. This result is often referred to as the company's information dashboard. Stephen Few was the first person to investigate the real purpose of the information dashboard in his book, Information Dashboard Design, and he defines dashboards as follows:

A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored...