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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Abhishek Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Getting Data in QlikView and Creating Your First App

Welcome to the second chapter of this book! In the previous chapter, we learned how QlikView works and got an idea of its potential. In this chapter, we will look at how to set up data by importing it from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and use that data to create an app. After that, we will look at some functions and tools in QlikView. We will also learn how to make our app interactive for our users.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Setting up the structure
  • Creating an app
  • Importing data from Excel
  • Understanding facts and dimensions
  • Understanding list boxes
  • Creating new tabs