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

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

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

The analysis interface—sheets and visualizations


Once you have loaded the data into Qlik Sense, it is time to create the visualizations in the analysis user interface. A basic set of sheets and visualizations should normally be supplied by the application developer, and additional ones can be created by the users themselves.

Creating a sheet

When you have loaded the data, Qlik Sense will usually create the sheet for you, and take you there. So, if you see a big blank area with the text The sheet is empty, you can skip to the next section:

But if you are still in the Load editor, you may need to perform the following steps to create a sheet:

  1. Go to App overview using the command in the top-left menu as shown in the next picture:

    The App overview command

  2. In App overview, you can create your first sheet by clicking on the sheet placeholder to the left, or on the button to the right:

    The Create new sheet button

  3. Name it and hit Enter. You have now created an empty sheet and need to put some visualizations...