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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)

Set analysis

Every time you make selections in an application, Qlik Sense filters the data, creating a set or group. If nothing is selected, then it means that the whole data model is part of the set.

Set analysis allows you to analyze data different to the set created by your selections. The subset analyzed by set analysis of data could be inside the main dataset or outside.

For example, when displaying in a chart the number of customers by product type for 2018 compared to the total number of customers, set analysis will help get the total out of the selection from 2018.

Parts of set analysis

Analyzing sets of data different to the user's selections can be achieved by defining a set expression within an expression....