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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

Summary


This has been an intense chapter, but you've hopefully achieved a deeper understanding of data visualization in QlikView and familiarized yourself with the basics of building frontend dashboard, analyses, and reports in QlikView.

We started with the Analysis sheet, for which we created basic data visualization objects like bar, line, combo, and scatter charts. We also learned how to create container objects, statistics boxes, and buttons, and explored more in-depth chart properties, expressions, the expression editor, and expression overview.

Next we built the Dashboard sheet, where we learned how to create gauges, text objects, and pie charts, while also learning about linked objects, actions, and dimension limits.

The final sheet that we built was Reports; here we learned how the straight table, pivot table, and table box objects are created. Additionally, we also learned about variables, cyclic and drill-down groups, auto minimizing, and the Report Editor.

We concluded this chapter...