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Implementing Qlik Sense

By : Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde
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Implementing Qlik Sense

By: Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Data modeling Validation

Data validation is one of the critical and important points which is neglected by most of the developers. We will look at this point in detail in the next chapter, but I want to discuss briefly about validation of the data model. While developing the data model with best practices, we sometimes mess with the code and make small mistakes, which may not be wrong syntactically but may be wrong from data perspective.

Thus, it becomes important to do a preliminary validation of the data model to make sure that after doing all the calculations and linkage between the tables, the data gets populated correctly, which further helps in avoiding data related queries after entire development is done.

There are couple of things which you should do for data modeling validation. Let us have a look at them.

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