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QlikView for Developers Cookbook

By : Stephen Redmond
Book Image

QlikView for Developers Cookbook

By: Stephen Redmond

Overview of this book

QlikView has been around since 1993, but has only really taken off in recent years as a leader in the in-memory BI space and, more recently, in the data discovery area. QlikView features the ability to consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, as well as an associative data model to allow you to explore the data to a way your brain works, state-of-the-art visualizations, dashboard, analysis and reports, and mobile data access. QlikView for Developers Cookbook builds on your initial training and experiences with QlikView to help you become a better developer. This book features plenty of hands-on examples of many challenging functions. Assuming a basic understanding of QlikView development, this book provides a range of step-by-step exercises to teach you different subjects to help build your QlikView developer expertise. From advanced charting and layout to set analysis; from advanced aggregations through to scripting, performance, and security, this book will cover all the areas that you need to know about. The recipes in this book will give you a lot of the information that you need to become an excellent QlikView developer.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
QlikView for Developers Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


There are some best practices that one should always follow when creating a layout in QlikView.

For general advice on visualizing data, I recommend the following people:

Name

Publication

Website

Stephen Few

Show Me The Numbers, Information Dashboard Design, and Now You See It.

www.perceptualedge.com

Robert Kosara

Eager Eyes Blog

www.eagereyes.org

Andy Kirk

Data Visualization: a successful design process

www.visualisingdata.com

Alberto Cairo

The Functional Art

www.thefunctionalart.com

There are, of course, many others on note, but the list could go for several pages and you wouldn't get to the bottom of it!

My purpose in this chapter is to show you how to layout and configure documents so that you can implement best practices.