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QlikView 11 for Developers

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QlikView 11 for Developers

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView's disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers. This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach in a practical environment, and apply proven best practices on each topic. Throughout the book, we will build a QlikView app based on real data about Airline Operations that will help "HighCloud Airlines" make informed business decisions and analysis-guided strategies. HighCloud Airlines executives are evaluating if entering the US market is a good strategy and, if so, which line of business should they focus their investments on; they need QlikView to make the best decision. The application will be evolving chapter by chapter, along with your skills, going from a simple proof of concept to creating a Data Model, adding a custom style, building a Dashboard and handling and manipulating the source data via script. We will meet the "HighCloud Airlines" requirement by using many different data visualization objects and time-saving techniques. The whole application uses real data taken from the Bureau of Transportations statistics of the US and encompasses the operations of Airlines both domestic and international. With three years worth of data, you will help HighCloud Airlines discover where people travel the most, which are the Carriers with the most market share, what is the average load factor per airline, which aircraft is the most used to perform flights, which are the busiest airports, and a whole universe of new insights.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This has been an intense chapter, but you've hopefully achieved a deeper understanding of data visualization in QlikView and familiarized yourself with the basics of building frontend dashboard, analyses, and reports in QlikView.

We started with the Analysis sheet, for which we created basic data visualization objects like bar, line, combo, and scatter charts. We also learned how to create container objects, statistics boxes, and buttons, and explored more in-depth chart properties, expressions, the expression editor, and expression overview.

Next we built the Dashboard sheet, where we learned how to create gauges, text objects, and pie charts, while also learning about linked objects, actions, and dimension limits.

The final sheet that we built was Reports; here we learned how the straight table, pivot table, and table box objects are created. Additionally, we also learned about variables, cyclic and drill-down groups, auto minimizing, and the Report Editor.

We concluded this chapter...