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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover
Book Image

QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful business intelligence platforms around, and if you want to transform data into insights, it is one of the best options you have at hand. Use this Learning Path, to explore the many features of QlikView to realize the potential of your data and present it as impactful and engaging visualizations. Each chapter in this Learning Path starts with an understanding of a business requirement and its associated data model and then helps you create insightful analysis and data visualizations around it. You will look at problems that you might encounter while visualizing complex data insights using QlikView, and learn how to troubleshoot these and other not-so-common errors. This Learning Path contains real-world examples from a variety of business domains, such as sales, finance, marketing, and human resources. With all the knowledge that you gain from this Learning Path, you will have all the experience you need to implement your next QlikView project like a pro. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • QlikView for Developers by Miguel Ángel García, Barry Harmsen • Mastering QlikView by Stephen Redmond • Mastering QlikView Data Visualization by Karl Pover
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 20. Troubleshooting Analysis

A paradox development is that we often spend more time troubleshooting QlikView applications than we do developing them. Such is the case that if nobody complains about an incorrect calculation or missing data, then they probably aren't using what we've created. When we become aware of a potential problem, we also tend to invest more time understanding and searching for the anomaly than we do fixing it. Even though this is time well spent when we encounter an issue for the first time, we should avoid repeating the same investigation every time the same issue reoccurs.

In this chapter, we are going to review several common anomalies that occur when we perform data analysis and visualization in QlikView. We document their possible causes and solutions as we would in a knowledge base that we create to help save time when we come across the same issues in the future. Let's cover the following topics to improve our QlikView troubleshooting skills:

  • Troubleshooting...