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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

You're reading from   Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense Implement self-service data analytics with insights and guidance from Qlik Sense experts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800944
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaushik Solanki Kaushik Solanki
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Jerry DiMaso Jerry DiMaso
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Pablo Labbe Pablo Labbe
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Qlik Sense and Business Intelligence FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Qlik Sense 3. Section 2: Data Loading and Modeling
4. Loading Data in Qlik Sense 5. Implementing Data Modeling Techniques 6. Section 3: Building an Analytical Application
7. Working with Application Structure 8. Creating a Sales Analysis App Using Qlik Sense 9. Interacting with Advanced Expressions 10. Creating Data Stories 11. Section 4: Additional Features
12. Engaging On-Demand App Generation 13. Creating a Native Map Using GeoAnalytics 14. Working with Self-Service Analytics 15. Data Forecasting Using Advanced Analytics 16. Deploying Qlik Sense Apps for Mobile/Tablets 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Application overview

A Qlik Sense application combines data in the form of a structured data model, visualizations, sheets, and stories. Dimensions, measures, and visualizations can be created as data items that can be reused between several visualizations (charts) and sheets (visualizations).

Let's take a look at each of these application components in brief. The components of an application are as follows:

  • Data model: A data model contains all the data that is loaded by the load script as well as several tables, each connected by unique fields. Every time we change the data load script, we reload the application to update the data model.
  • Measures: Measures contain expressions that we can implement in visualizations. These expressions have one or several field aggregate functions, such as sum, avg, min, and max. Changes in the measure expressions affect all related visualizations...
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