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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

Editing your story

In the last section, Creating your story, we discussed the process of creating and telling a story, which is basically as follows:

  • Take a snapshot
  • Add it to a slide
  • Add decorations and more information
  • Play your story

Now, let's add some more insights to the story by collecting some snapshots from the Qlik Sense application using the following steps:

  1. Go to the Product Analysis sheet and select the Beverages option under the Category section, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. The bar chart will show the products from this category. Place your cursor over this chart and take a snapshot, renaming it as Top products for Beverage, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Using the same process, collect a snapshot from the scatter graph, renaming it as Products Discount x Sales for Beverages, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Collect a snapshot...