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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
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Section 1: Qlik Sense and Business Intelligence
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Section 2: Data Loading and Modeling
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Section 3: Building an Analytical Application
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Section 4: Additional Features

Creating snapshots

Snapshots are static representations of the state of an object from one Qlik Sense application at a certain point in time. A snapshot is a copy of that object, even though the original object might have been deleted or changed, or the underlying data reloaded. The snapshot keeps the context, format, and value of the original object.

For every Qlik Sense object, any changes made to the filter pane and the extensions can be captured as a snapshot in a very simple and intuitive way. When you place your cursor over the object, an icon with a camera appears, which looks like this:

When you click the icon, the object's state is captured and a form is displayed, giving you the opportunity to describe the snapshot using an annotation, as shown in the following screenshot (this is very useful for organizing your snapshot library):

You can add an annotation to...