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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

Creating Master items

When we create a chart, we select fields as the source for the dimensions and measures within the chart. For measures, we need to select the aggregation function. This process is repeated for each chart that we create in the sheet. Changing a measure in one chart doesn't affect the measures defined in other charts, even if they are related to the same field. Let's consider the SalesAmount example. Similar to when we change a field in a dimension, changing a dimension field in one chart doesn't affect the dimension defined in other charts.

It could become difficult to set the same business rule each time we create a new chart. It's also difficult to review and update all of the charts in an app when a measure expression changes. The best practice to overcome this situation is to create Master items.

Master items allow us to define a set...