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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)

Creating Data Models

Welcome to the next chapter of the book, Creating Data Models. In this chapter, we will look at creating a star schema. We will also look at different types of schemas, and why a star schema is used for QlikView dashboard development. We will learn all about the data models used in QlikView, and how to implement them in our application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a star schema
  • Getting data from databases
  • Analyzing the resulting model
  • Creating a QVD file