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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)
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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

Planning and organizing your presentation

Before starting your presentation, take a few minutes to think about how to create and format your presentation. This book is not intended to be a complete guide on how to create presentations, but here are a few useful tips:

  • Keep it small: Don't add dozens of slides and prints. Less is more. Brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity. Get straight to the point.
  • Use visual aids: We are using a visual analytics platform, so use the snapshots feature to add graphs and corroborate the insights you want to share. For example, instead of writing that Beverages is the top selling category for a particular region, add a bar chart that demonstrates this information. People are smart: if you show information in a suitable manner, they will draw their own conclusions. Using Qlik Sense stories, you can add shapes, images, and...