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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
3
Section 2: Data Loading and Modeling
6
Section 3: Building an Analytical Application
11
Section 4: Additional Features

Creating stories

Using the snapshots we took previously, let's create our first story by going through the following steps:

  1. From the app overview, or sheet view, click the small Stories icon that lies at the top of the screen. This icon looks as follows:
  1. Click on the Create new story button, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. A story named My new story is created. We can rename it, add a description and a thumbnail image, or even delete the story using the form shown in the following screenshot:
  1. This brings us to the following screen, which allows us to manage our story:

As you can see, we have four major areas:

  • The left area: Here, we can see a preview of all our slides, as shown in the following screenshot. We can either rearrange the slides, add more slides, or delete the existing ones:
  • The right area: Here, we can access the following:
    • Snapshot library...