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QlikView Essentials

By : Chandraish Sinha
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QlikView Essentials

By: Chandraish Sinha

Overview of this book

This guide demonstrates just how easy it is to get started with QlikView and create your own BI application. Featuring an introduction to its core features before exploring how to load data and model it, you’ll soon become more confident that you can take full advantage of QlikView’s capabilities.. You will also learn how to use QVD files with QlikView – and how they offer a simpler way of handling data. After digging deeper into data handling, as you learn how to use mapping tables and create a master calendar, you’ll then find out how to get the most from QlikView’s visualization features – vital if you are to use your data insights effectively. From accessible and user friendly dashboards to strategies and best practices for subjecting data to further analysis, you can be confident that you’ll be prepared to get the most out of your data with QlikView. With details on how to finally secure your application and deploy it for a successful integration in your organization, QlikView Essentials underlines exactly why QlikView is becoming more and more popular for businesses that understand the value of data.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a scatter chart


Scatter charts are a good way to show relationships between measures.

When creating a scatter chart you need to specify measures for the x-axis and y-axis, and a third measure Z to display the bubble size. In this chart, we will visualize the relationship between Freight and Sales for ProductLines:

  1. Use QlikViewEssentials_Presentation.qvw.

  2. Right-click on the empty space on the Dashboard sheet. Select New Sheet Object and then Chart. Select the Scatter Chart, which is the first chart in the second row of chart types.

  3. On the General tab, unselect Show Title in Chart.

  4. Click on Next. Select ProductLineDesc as Dimensions. Click on Next.

  5. In the next window for expressions, specify x-axis, y-axis, and bubble size.

  6. Under X, pick Freight from the drop-down list. Specify Label as Freight %.

  7. Under Y, pick LineSalesAmount from the drop-down list. Specify Label as Sales.

  8. Under Z, check the bubble chart and in the bubble size expression specify Sum(Quantity).

    The complete expressions window...