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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

Examining advanced Table File Wizard options


The Table Files Wizard is used by many to load a file and generate the load script for it. However, there is a not-so-secret secret button with the word Next written on it that is often ignored:

There are some great things in here that are worth looking at.

Enabling a transformation step

When we first hit that Next button on the wizard, we are presented with the interesting option, Enable Transformation Step:

If we click on this button, it brings us to a new dialog with several tabs:

Garbage

The Garbage tab allows us to clean out records that are not useful to us. In the preceding screenshot, there are a couple of rows that we can select and click on the Delete Marked button to remove. We can also click on the Conditional Delete… button and set up a rule to delete particular rows, for example, if they begin with the word Total:

Fill

The Fill tab allows us to fill in missing values, or overwrite other values, based on a condition. We can fill data from...