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Implementing Qlik Sense

By : Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde
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Implementing Qlik Sense

By: Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Visualization Strategy

The next step in the project is visualization. Now that we are ready with data, we can start developing the visualization through which data can be analyzed by the end users. End users, except the super user, might not have visibility of how data has been prepared; they will be more interested in analyzing the data and finding the facts from the data.

Let us start understanding the importance of visualization, but before that, let's look at some influencing quotes:

Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice.―Stephen Few
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.―Ben Shneiderman
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.―Carly Fiorina

All the preceding quotes try to tell us that we should present our data in such a way that they tell...