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Mastering Qlik Sense

By : Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
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Mastering Qlik Sense

By: Juan Ignacio Vitantonio

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it. This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

Coding in Qlik Sense requires a good understanding of web development and a knowledge of the relevant libraries. Especially for users who do not have a software development background, this chapter provides them with a crash course of what is relevant in Qlik Sense and why. The same applies to QlikView developers and consultants who might have a technical background in Qlik but are embarking on the web development journey for the very first time. This chapter, while extensive, provided you with a good understanding of the triangle of web development, which consists of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. While it won't make you an expert straight away, you will generally be able to understand the lingo and the relationship between these three core languages.

As with many other programming languages, JavaScript, and web development benefit greatly from freely available open...