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Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense

By : Ferran Garcia Pagans, Fernando G Pagans
Book Image

Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense

By: Ferran Garcia Pagans, Fernando G Pagans

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Visualizations, Data Applications, Dashboards, and Data Storytelling

In this chapter, we'll focus on data visualization. Representing your data and insights visually will help business users to understand it. A good data application allows the business user to explore data, understand it, and discover new things.

Usually, a dashboard is a visual representation of the most important Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of a company, department, or business process. A dashboard can be created on a sheet of paper, in a spreadsheet, or with the help of a data visualization tool such as Qlik Sense.

When you create a dashboard with Qlik Sense, you create a live application. A Qlik Sense application can take the form of a dashboard or an analytic application. As you will see in this chapter, Qlik Sense allows you to combine this dashboard, analysis, and reporting in the same data application.

In data visualizations; charts, tables and other visualizations are the building blocks. We'll start...