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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 you need for this learning path

Module 1:

You will need a copy of Qlik Sense Desktop, which is available for free at http://www.qlik.com/us/explore/products/sense/desktop. After that, you just need some time and a good comfortable chair. Additionally, the sample application's examples and many others are available for you to explore live on http://sense-demo.qlik.com/. Please bookmark this link as additional demonstrations and examples are constantly being added and updated.

Module 2:

The user needs to install Qlik Sense Desktop version 2.1.1, which can be downloaded for free from: http://www.qlik.com/try-or-buy/download-qlik-sense. The user also needs to install Qlik Sense Server version 2.1.1 for the recipe titled Publishing a Qlik Sense application on Qlik Sense Server, given in Chapter 4, Managing Apps and User Interface. The Qlik Sense Server installer file can be obtained from: http://www.qlik.com.

One needs to login using the customer account credentials to get access to the files under Support | Customer Downloads. You also need to install the SAP connector for the recipe titled Extracting Data from custom Databases from Chapter 1, Getting Started with the Data. In order to work with the SAP connector, you will need to obtain a license from Qlik. A part of this recipe also makes use of QlikView which can be downloaded for free from: http://www.qlik.com/try-or-buy/download-qlikview.

Module 3:

To install our learning environment and complete the examples, you need a 64-bit computer:

  • OS: Windows 7, Windows 8, or 8.1
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or higher
  • Memory: 4 GB or more
  • .NET Framework: 4.0
  • Security: Local admin privileges to install R, Rattle, and Qlik Sense.