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Implementing Qlik Sense

By : Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde
Book Image

Implementing Qlik Sense

By: Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Visualization best practices

We learned in previous section that visualization is the actual output which end users will be seeing. Considering that visualization helps users get insights into their data it becomes important to build more intuitive visualizations considering the best practices.

Let us have a look at few of the good practices

  • Understand the data: It is not possible to present data with meaningful insight if you don’t understand the data. You should be to make the business user get the best possible information from dashboard especially when there are multiple datasources. You should also know the nature of the data, like whether it is a historical data, a nominal data, or a ratio data. This will help you to understand the best visualization to choose and this enables business quick insights. Thus, it is always important to understand your data before transferring...