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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)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with QlikView, takes us through the architecture of QlikView, its selection methodology, and a quick overview for understanding course coverage and objectives. Finally, we'll see how we can create a new app or document in QlikView.

Chapter 2, Getting Data in QlikView and Creating Your First App, shows us that bringing data into the QlikView system is the first step for dashboard development. In this chapter, you'll create an app and filters to get yourself acquainted with QlikView selection terminologies.

Chapter 3, Creating Data Models, teaches us about data modeling and why it is important for fast and scalable dashboards. In this chapter, you'll create a data model by joining data and then review it in the frontend.

Chapter 4, Components in QlikView, takes us through various QlikView components and their configurations. Some of these components are essential when it comes to using an interactive and user-friendly dashboard.

Chapter 5, Building a Dashboard, shows us how to build a dashboard by adding multiple KPIs and charts. This chapter helps you to understand how you can create dynamic dashboards as well.

Chapter 6, Set Analysis, shows us that set analysis is a powerful way to achieve business metrics. In this chapter, we'll see how we can apply it in QlikView expressions.

Chapter 7, Adding Security, shows you how to secure your data based on the various audience types. Here, you'll learn how you can reduce the data for a particular user based on their credentials.