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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

Understanding the DAR methodology

DAR stands for Dashboard, Analysis, Reporting, as mentioned in the introduction to this chapter. In this section, we will learn about the DAR methodology that we will apply to our apps.

To keep it simple, we will begin by creating a Dashboard sheet, followed by several Analysis sheets, and finally a Reporting sheet. A Dashboard sheet shows business information at a high-level for quick overview. The Analysis sheets gives more detailed information showing interactive visualizations with various perspectives, such as customers, sales representatives, or products. The Reporting sheet displays the same information in a more granular form.

Let's look at these sheets more closely, as follows:

  • Dashboard: The Dashboard sheet is one of the most important sheets of your app. This contains the most user relevant information. At a glance, this makes...