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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

Troubleshooting preparation and resources


First, let's go over the general approach that we take when troubleshooting in QlikView and what resources are available to make it easier.

Positive mindset

If we want to create successful QlikView applications, then we have to be prepared to maintain them for many years to come or transfer our knowledge to another person. In reality, we never completely finish great QlikView applications and we continuously transform them when new business questions arise. The troubleshooting, maintenance, corrections, and adjustments that we perform after the initial development is also an excellent opportunity to learn from our mistakes. We also learn what is truly important to business users and constantly improve the quality and value of our work. Therefore, we're better off being positive about post-development work because in the absence of all this feedback, it is hard to master QlikView.

General debugging skills

In addition to a positive mindset, we must possess...