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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

By : Pablo Labbe, Clever Anjos, Kaushik Solanki, Jerry DiMaso
Book Image

Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

By: Pablo Labbe, Clever Anjos, Kaushik Solanki, Jerry DiMaso

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple-to-complex data to reveal hidden insights and data relationships to make business-driven decisions. Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense begins by helping you get to grips with underlying Qlik concepts and gives you an overview of all Qlik Sense’s features. You will learn advanced modeling techniques and learn how to analyze the data loaded using a variety of visualization objects. You’ll also be trained on how to share apps through Qlik Sense Enterprise and Qlik Sense Cloud and how to perform aggregation with AGGR. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll explore the stories feature to create data-driven presentations and update an existing story. This book will guide you through the GeoAnalytics feature with the geo-mapping object and GeoAnalytics connector. Furthermore, you’ll learn about the self-service analytics features and perform data forecasting using advanced analytics. Lastly, you’ll deploy Qlik Sense apps for mobile and tablet. By the end of this book, you will be well-equipped to run successful business intelligence applications using Qlik Sense's functionality, data modeling techniques, and visualization best practices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Qlik Sense and Business Intelligence
3
Section 2: Data Loading and Modeling
6
Section 3: Building an Analytical Application
11
Section 4: Additional Features

An overview of stories

A story is structured as a timeline of slides. Each slide consists of one or more elements (snapshots, text, images, and shapes) that are combined to tell you something about the data and your analysis of it. A slide is a part of a story and corresponds to a screen, or in other words, a collection of text, images, and other objects. A snapshot is an image (a table, graph, or key performance indicator (KPI)) that represents the state of a data object at a certain point in time.

The process to create and publish a story is shown in the following workflow:

The user does the following:

  • Uses the application, applying filters and getting insights
  • Collects insights when they find something that should be added to their story (graphs, tables, or KPIs)
  • Creates a story
  • Adds snapshots to the story by adding one or more slides
  • Adds explanatory text, images, or other...