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Qlik Sense Cookbook

You're reading from   Qlik Sense Cookbook Over 80 recipes on data analytics to solve business intelligence challenges

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788997058
Length 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Philip Hand Philip Hand
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Neeraj Kharpate Neeraj Kharpate
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Pablo Labbe Pablo Labbe
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Visualizations 3. Scripting 4. Managing Apps and the User Interface 5. Useful Functions 6. Set Analysis 7. Using Extensions in Qlik Sense 8. Advanced Aggregation with AGGR 9. Tips and Tricks 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating geo maps in Qlik Sense®

Geographical information can be plotted in Qlik Sense by making use of the Map object. In order to create geo maps in Qlik Sense, we need to load the location information, also called point or area data. The location information can be loaded either from a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file, if available, or a database, web service, or simple Excel file. Data can also be loaded inline, which is what we are going to do in the following recipe.

Getting ready

For the purpose of this recipe, we will make use of inline data loading, which gives us the location information for different countries in the form of latitudes and longitudes:

  1. Create a new Qlik Sense file and name it Geolocations...
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