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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

Human resources data model


The HR data model is a transactional fact table with discrete events. This includes the employee-related events along with a few financial events that help us measure productivity. We record the following events in this model:

  • Employee payroll

  • Employee absences

  • Employee training

  • Employee hiring and dismissals

  • General Journal (GJ) entries related to sales, costs, and expenses

Here is a representation of this model:

We combine these events into one fact table and use the same type of master calendar as in Chapter 12, Sales Perspective. The data model includes a new dimension table called Employees. Let's review the 7Ws of our HR data model.

Dimensions

7Ws

Fields

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Who

Employee

This is the focus of our HR data model. We include various attributes that are related to their role in the company and general demographic information here.

When

Month, Year

This is where we include a single master calendar that describes the exact date of an event.

Where

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