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Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By : Julian Villafuerte
Book Image

Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By: Julian Villafuerte

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most powerful analytical tools in the market. Based on an in-memory associative model, it lets users freely navigate through the data, spot trends and make better decisions. This platform is capable of integrating a wide range of data sources like ERP systems, data warehouses or spreadsheets into a single application in order display dashboards with state-of-the-art visualizations. Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView is an easy to follow handbook that guides you through the process of creating an effective and engaging dashboard that delivers tangible value to the business. It starts with the identification of the business needs and the definition of the main KPIs, and takes you all the way to the application rollout. Throughout the book, you will learn how to apply some of the best practices in the field of data visualization, create a robust navigation schema, chose the best chart types for each scenario and many other things that will help you create effective dashboards that uncover all the stories behind the data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
It's Not Only about Charts
Index

Scatter plots


Scatter plots are one of the strongest allies that you will find when it comes to real data discovery. These visualizations can help you find correlations, identify clusters, and spot outliers. Even though their simplest structure compares only two variables (the x and y axes), it is possible to add a third one by changing the bubble size and even a fourth one by animating the chart.

Example: Sales vs Margin % scatter plot divided by store format.

Relevant features: Color encoding and text as popup.

To create such a chart, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new scatter chart using Store as the dimension and click on Next.

  2. As you can see, the Expressions tab looks quite different. In order to use the classic layout (and get access to a lot of useful menus), select the Advanced Mode box in the bottom part of the window.

  3. Modify the first expression in order to represent the Margin % using the following code:

    sum(Margin) / sum(Sales) 
  4. Modify the second expression in order to represent...