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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)

Setting up the structure

Let's go ahead and look at the first topic – setting up the structure for development. We will use the following steps to do this:

  1. The first step is to navigate to the directory where you want to set up the application, which can be anywhere in your system.
  2. Here, we will create a new folder, and you will give it a very meaningful name that will represent our development. Let's say, in this example, or for this course, we will look at some data related to airlines and their metrics. So, we'll name our folder Airline Metrics.
  1. Then, we will create another folder for the apps, so we will name this Apps. This will contain the QlikView apps, and then, we will create another folder for data, named Data, which will contain all the datasets we will use.
  2. Then, if you have some images and other things that you want here, you can create a...