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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)

The basics of set analysis

Let's go ahead and look at the basics of set analysis expressions. In this section, we will cover what set analysis is and why you should use it. After that, we will look at set analysis syntax structure, which has identifiers, operators, and modifiers. It is important to understand these three things so that you can write efficient set analysis code in your real dashboards.

What set analysis means

Set analysis is a way to create a metric or chart in a user-defined way so that the user has more control over the values displayed by controlling the selection made on the filters. To better understand this, let's use an example. Suppose that, on one chart, you want to show the sales of all...