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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)

Analyzing the resulting model

Here, we're going to look at various topics, such as subset ratio, information density, and tags, which will help in analyzing the data models.

Let's go to our QlikView application and open the data model using the table viewer, by using the shortcut Ctrl + T.

Now, this data model has some properties. If you hover on any of the columns, it shows some information about that particular field, including the information density, subset ratio, and tags. Let's take the example of DISTANCE_GROUP, as shown here:

Let's talk about each of these details one by one.

Information density

First, let's talk about the information density, which is 100% for DISTANCE_GROUP. 100% information...