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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
Book Image

QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Data Modeling

Up until now, we've seen the HighCloud Airlines team becoming familiar with QlikView and its powerful analytic capabilities and data association engine. The time has come to establish how their first production application will be developed, starting with its very core: the Data Model.

We've constructed a data model in the preceding chapters using pre-processed tables, so it was an easy task. In this chapter however, we will dig into the hows and whys of data model design in QlikView, exploring different scenarios and learning about the inner workings of QlikView's associative engine. This enables us to take the most advantage of the dataset we will be analyzing.

In this chapter, you will learn about:

  • Which type of data model is best suited for QlikView

  • The different "rules" that need to be followed when designing data models for a QlikView document

  • How to best take advantage of the associative data model to make your documents highly dynamic

  • How to work with tables and...