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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)

Example 1-bar chart

Now that you are familiar with the basic structure of an extension, the HyperCube, and how to define useful properties, this section will cover building an example visualization extension step by step using d3. It will quickly become very technical, so a good understanding of previous chapters is required to follow why and how something is implemented fully.

Bear in mind that, as with languages and their dialects, there are different ways to implement the same results in coding. You are encouraged to explore different implementations and to try out new ideas or methods that you are more comfortable with.

The example we will try to implement using d3 is a standard bar chart. We do recognize Qlik Sense already comes with a sturdy bar chart that so this exercise will replicate some of the basic functionality, but the steps of building d3-based visualizations should...