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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover
Book Image

QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful business intelligence platforms around, and if you want to transform data into insights, it is one of the best options you have at hand. Use this Learning Path, to explore the many features of QlikView to realize the potential of your data and present it as impactful and engaging visualizations. Each chapter in this Learning Path starts with an understanding of a business requirement and its associated data model and then helps you create insightful analysis and data visualizations around it. You will look at problems that you might encounter while visualizing complex data insights using QlikView, and learn how to troubleshoot these and other not-so-common errors. This Learning Path contains real-world examples from a variety of business domains, such as sales, finance, marketing, and human resources. With all the knowledge that you gain from this Learning Path, you will have all the experience you need to implement your next QlikView project like a pro. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • QlikView for Developers by Miguel Ángel García, Barry Harmsen • Mastering QlikView by Stephen Redmond • Mastering QlikView Data Visualization by Karl Pover
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
Index

Planning in QlikView with KliqPlan


Each person in our company is a data source and it is important that they can easily input data that will enrich our analysis. If we combine analysis with planning, then we can be better prepared for the future and support our statistical analysis. In QlikView, business users can simultaneously analyze and input data.

Traditionally, data input in QlikView is limited to what-if scenarios that use variables or input fields. However, when we have a large number of variables, neither of these methods are ideal. A large number of variables is hard to maintain and input fields take up too much RAM. Furthermore, users cannot easily input a large number of values at once and there is a risk they will lose their input that is not directly saved to a database.

Planning tool extensions

As an alternative, we have the option to use an extension that enables us to perform more advanced data input in QlikView. One of these extensions is called KliqPlan (http://www.ktlabs...