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Qlik Sense: Advanced Data Visualization for Your Organization

By : Henric Cronström, Ferran Garcia Pagans, Neeraj Kharpate, James Richardson, Philip Hand
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Qlik Sense: Advanced Data Visualization for Your Organization

By: Henric Cronström, Ferran Garcia Pagans, Neeraj Kharpate, James Richardson, Philip Hand

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is powerful and creative visual analytics software that allows users to discover data, explore it, and dig out meaningful insights in order to make a profit and make decisions for your business. This course begins by introducing you to the features and functions of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense so you get to grips with the application. The course will teach you how to administer the data architecture in Qlik Sense, enabling you to customize your own Qlik Sense application for your business intelligence needs. It also contains numerous recipes to help you overcome challenging situations while creating fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense. It explains how to combine Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop to apply predictive analytics to your data to develop real-world interactive data applications. The course includes premium content from three of our most popular books: [*] Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide Second Edition [*] Qlik Sense Cookbook [*] Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense On completion of this course, you will be self-sufficient in improving your data analysis and will know how to apply predictive analytics to your datasets. Through this course, you will be able to create predictive models and data applications, allowing you to explore your data insights much deeper.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Chapter 4. Managing Apps and User Interface

In this chapter, we will be dealing with the User Interface in Qlik Sense.

  • Publishing a Qlik Sense® application on Qlik Sense® desktop
  • Creating private, approved and community sheets
  • Publishing a Qlik Sense® application on Qlik Sense® cloud
  • Creating geo maps in Qlik Sense®
  • Effectively using the KPI object in Qlik Sense®
  • Creating Tree Maps
  • Creating a Sales versus Target gauge chart in Qlik Sense®
  • Creating dimensionless bar charts in Qlik Sense®
  • Adding Reference Lines to trendline charts
  • Creating text and images
  • Applying limitations to charts
  • Adding thumbnails – a clear environment
  • Navigating many data points in a scatter chart

Introduction

The information required for analysis and decision making within an organization is communicated via the user interface in Qlik Sense. We discussed the best design practices in Chapter 2, Visualization. We will take this discussion a step further and learn to implement...