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Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By : Julian Villafuerte
Book Image

Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By: Julian Villafuerte

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most powerful analytical tools in the market. Based on an in-memory associative model, it lets users freely navigate through the data, spot trends and make better decisions. This platform is capable of integrating a wide range of data sources like ERP systems, data warehouses or spreadsheets into a single application in order display dashboards with state-of-the-art visualizations. Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView is an easy to follow handbook that guides you through the process of creating an effective and engaging dashboard that delivers tangible value to the business. It starts with the identification of the business needs and the definition of the main KPIs, and takes you all the way to the application rollout. Throughout the book, you will learn how to apply some of the best practices in the field of data visualization, create a robust navigation schema, chose the best chart types for each scenario and many other things that will help you create effective dashboards that uncover all the stories behind the data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
It's Not Only about Charts
Index

Color highlight


QlikView's natural behavior is to zoom in on the data once a selection is made. However, there is a great downside to doing this: you lose some context because the rest of the elements disappear. One of the most popular ways to overcome this phenomenon is to mix color functions with our good old friend—Set Analysis.

Example: NBA standings.

Relevant features: Set Analysis and color highlight.

To create this visualization, you can do the following:

  1. Create a classic bar chart using Team as the dimension and sum(Wins) as the expression.

  2. This trick is based on two parts. First, we must work with the colors so that only the possible teams are highlighted. Then, we must ensure that even though the user selects just a couple of teams, the chart always displays all of them.

  3. Let's move on to the color. Go to the Expressions tab and click on the Expression Expansion icon.

  4. Locate the Color Background parameter and add the following formula:

    =if(match(Team, concat(DISTINCT Team, ',')),RGB(130...