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Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By : Julian Villafuerte
Book Image

Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By: Julian Villafuerte

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most powerful analytical tools in the market. Based on an in-memory associative model, it lets users freely navigate through the data, spot trends and make better decisions. This platform is capable of integrating a wide range of data sources like ERP systems, data warehouses or spreadsheets into a single application in order display dashboards with state-of-the-art visualizations. Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView is an easy to follow handbook that guides you through the process of creating an effective and engaging dashboard that delivers tangible value to the business. It starts with the identification of the business needs and the definition of the main KPIs, and takes you all the way to the application rollout. Throughout the book, you will learn how to apply some of the best practices in the field of data visualization, create a robust navigation schema, chose the best chart types for each scenario and many other things that will help you create effective dashboards that uncover all the stories behind the data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
It's Not Only about Charts
Index

About "the classics"


In previous chapters, we pointed out that bars work great for comparisons, lines are the best way to represent trends over time, and pies help us visualize parts of a whole. However, there is much more behind these classics…

Structure

The majority of objects in QlikView are capable of handling several dimensions and expressions without any trouble. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about our brain. When dealing with numerous items cluttered in the same area, it is quite easy for us to lose focus, so try to limit the amount of data you display in a single chart.

Most of the time, keeping the number of dimensions and expressions under four will work fine (1 expression and 1 dimension, 2 dimensions and 1 expression, 1 dimensions and 2 expressions, and so on). In this regard, there are three notable exceptions. The first one refers to combo charts. Since they work with different representations at once (bar, lines, and symbols), they can handle more expressions than the...