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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Christopher Ilacqua, QlikTech International AB, Henric Cronström, James Richardson
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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Christopher Ilacqua, QlikTech International AB, Henric Cronström, James Richardson

Overview of this book

The intuitive and powerful Qlik Sense visual analytics software allows anyone to engage in data discovery, to explore your data, and find meaningful insights to empower your business. Qlik Sense lets you easily create personalized reports and visualizations and reveal essential connections to show new opportunities from every angle. Written by members of the Qlik Sense team, this book is the official guide from Qlik to understanding and using their powerful new product with fully updated coverage to the latest features of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense. Benefit from the vision behind the development of Qlik Sense and get to grips with how Qlik Sense can empower you as a data discovery consumer. Learn how to create your own applications for Qlik Sense to customize it to meet your personal needs for business intelligence, and how to oversee and administer the Qlik Sense data architecture. Finally, explore utilizing Qlik Sense to uncover essential data, with practical examples on finding and visualizing intelligence for sales figures, human resources information, travel expense tracking, and demographic data discovery.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Qlik Sense® The Official Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

Developing the application


Let's start our review of the heart of a Qlik Sense application, the data model. As you can see from the following screenshot, there are six tables in the Travel Expense Management associative model. At the heart of this application is the Expenses table. These tables were created through Data Load Editor, which was covered in Chapter 5, Authoring Engaging Applications. It is worth noting that Qlik and Qlik partners provide both general-purpose connectors and specialized connectors to access a broad array of data sources.

Examining the key tables

Let's examine the key tables.

Expenses

The Expenses table contains all the key information (shown in the following screenshot) about the expense transaction of an employee. This includes information such as the date, employee name, expense type, and so on.

The Expenses table

PerDiemRates

The PerDiemsRates table contains all the key information (shown in the following screenshot) about state, city, month, rates, and so on:

The...