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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

Personal behavior analysis


We collect a huge amount of data about each employee's work habits. Much of this data is located in log files generated when they connect to company servers or work on their own computers. A company that excessively uses this information to evaluate their employee's may be considered intrusive by their employees and the result may be counterproductive.

However, if we train employees in such a way as to form a mutually beneficial relationship, then we can rely on the employees themselves to analyze and improve their own productivity. In this case, the responsibility of the company is to give employees the proper tools to be more effective. One such tool may be RescueTime (https://www.rescuetime.com/), which helps a person keep track of which programs and websites he or she uses throughout the day. It also assigns a productivity score to each activity. For example, facebook.com has the minimum productivity score of -2, while MS Word scores the maximum score of 2,...