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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)

ETL – extract, transform, load

You might have heard about the ETL technique as it is widely used in most current Business Intelligence projects. Having said that, I am usually surprised how often experienced consultants avoid approaching projects in a systematic way and instead use one application to do absolutely everything, from extracting data from a database to data cleansing to creating visualizations.

An ETL approach helps you have an understandable and easy-to-manage project. Think of it as a chest of drawers. You put your T-shirts in one drawer, your underwear in another drawer, and your accessories in a different one. It will be a lot easier for you to know if something is missing by splitting your clothes into compartments and it is exactly the same in a Qlik Sense project.

Always think of your project as a global one. If you do everything in one place, there...