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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 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...