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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)

What this learning path covers

Module 1, Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide Second Edition, in this module, you will learn about Qlik Sense, Qlik's self-service visualization platform. Our aim is to help you get more from your data by applying Qlik Sense and its unique capabilities to your analytic needs. At the beginning of this module, we'll cover why Qlik chose to develop Qlik Sense, what data discovery is and can do, and the strategy and vision behind the product. Later, we'll address practical considerations, including the Qlik Sense application's life cycle, how to meet the needs of different types of users, how to develop and administer engaging Qlik Sense applications, data modeling and getting the most out of the QIX engine. The module concludes by outlining a series of example applications built using Qlik Sense, to address analysis needs in sales management, HR, T&E management, and demographics.

Module 2, Qlik Sense Cookbook, this module uncovers all the wonderful features of Qlik Sense product. It will help you to overcome the challenges faced in day to day Qlik Sense implementations. The solutions are discussed through simple and easy to understand recipes.

Module 3, Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense, the objective of this module is to introduce you to predictive analytics and data visualization by developing some example applications. We'll use R and Rattle to create the predictive model and Qlik Sense to create a data application that allows business users to explore their data. We use Rattle and Qlik Sense to avoid learning programming and focus on predictive analytics and data visualizations concepts.