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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

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 7, 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 detailed...