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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789800944

Length 442 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Qlik Sense

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (4):

Kaushik Solanki

Clever Anjos

Jerry DiMaso

Pablo Labbe

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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Creating visualization objects

Qlik Sense provides several visualization objects to explore and analyze the data that is loaded into the application. The visualizations can show information in the form of charts with bars, lines, gauges, pies, and so on. Tables and textboxes are also available to show text-based information. Maps are available to show geospatial information.

In this section, we will learn how to create charts using the existing data loaded into the application.

Getting started

The following steps will help us to create and use a new sheet, as follows:

Open the app and click on Create new sheet, as demonstrated in the following screenshot:

Set the title of the sheet to My first charts, as follows:

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Authors (4)

DiMaso

Jerry DiMaso is an Analytics Advisory Consultant who has spent the past ten years developing applications, advising on data and analytics strategies, and coaching organizations on how to build efficient analytics operating models. His work in more than 100 organizations in dozens of different industries has inspired him to take on the mission of improving the world's analytics capabilities through a series of practical frameworks and methodologies, most notably the Analytics Enablement and Axis Academy programs he created.

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Solanki

Kaushik Solanki is a computer engineer by profession. He is working at Predoole Analytics Pvt Ltd as Qlik Architect & Delivery Manager. He holds overall 9 years of experience working on Qlik technology. His passion is to educate everyone about "Data Literacy" and "Qlik". He loves to spend time on Qlik community to help Qlik developers to learn and excel. He has a great understanding of project delivery right from the business requirement to final implementation. His experience in various domains has helped business to take valuable business decisions.

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Labbe

Pablo is a Business Intelligence Consultant with over 18 years of experience. In 2008 he was presented to Qlikview, the former product by Qlik and the seed for Qlik Sense. Since that year he was focused on delivering BI solutions in a new way. Now he is the Principal of ANALITIKA Inteligencia delivering BI projects and training focusing on Qlik products and other technologies that embrace the Self-Service BI. He is an active member of the Qlik Community and other social media sites. You can follow him on Twitter - @pablolabbe and LinkedIn.

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Clever Anjos

Clever Anjos is an experienced Business Discovery professional having several years working experience with Qlik, Microsoft and others BI technologies. He holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Minas Gerais State - Brazil). He works at Qlik as a Solution Architect helping companies to use the Qlik technologies to enable their professionals to be data literate persons. He has several Qlik Certifications and Awards (Qlik Luminary, Qlik MVP and Presales "Rookie of The Year" - Americas 2018)

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