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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)

Interacting with the Engine

By now, you should know how to create a connection with the Qlik Engine, and how to embed nice looking visualizations in your web app or mashup to create a user-friendly dashboard sitting outside of the native Qlik Sense client. This section will now focus on interactivity, making selections in the data model, creating HyperCubes, connecting to fields, and most importantly, creating selection listeners for full duplex interactivity with both the Qlik App and the Qlik Engine.

Creating HyperCubes

The in-memory associative Qlik Engine is speedy and powerful when it comes to aggregating and calculating data on the fly. As such, it sometimes makes sense to leverage the Qlik Engine to calculate a dataset...