Effectively using the KPI object in Qlik Sense®

A visualization should provide the user with a clear and effective presentation of the data. Numbers have an impact and they contain a message. Key performance indicators demonstrate the importance of numbers in business and also communicate the health of the business to the audience.

Getting ready

We will make use of the application from the preceding recipe. The application has the following script loaded; it gives information on theSalesandTargetvalues for four countries:

LOAD * INLINE [
Country, Sales, Target
USA, 10000, 8500
UK, 7000, 9500
Germany, 5000, 4500
Japan, 6000, 6000
];

How to do it…

1. Go to theApp overviewand create a new sheet.
2. Name the sheet KPI and open it.
3. Go to Edit mode by clicking on 
   
   .
4. Drag the 
   
    object from the assets panel onto the sheet.
5. Next, add the following measure:

(Sum(Sales)-Sum(Target))/Sum(Target)

6. Name the label Sales vs Target.
7. Once we add the measure, we can see a host of properties, such as number format, color, and so...