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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

You're reading from   QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization Discover deeper insights with Qlikview by building your own rich analytical applications from scratch

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Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955996
Length 786 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Barry Harmsen Barry Harmsen
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Miguel  Angel Garcia Miguel Angel Garcia
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Stephen Redmond Stephen Redmond
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Karl Pover Karl Pover
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
1. Performance Tuning and Scalability FREE CHAPTER 2. QlikView Data Modeling 3. Best Practices for Loading Data 4. Advanced Expressions 5. Advanced Scripting 6. What's New in QlikView 12? 7. Styling Up 8. Building Dashboards 9. Advanced Data Transformation 10. Security 11. Data Visualization Strategy 12. Sales Perspective 13. Financial Perspective 14. Marketing Perspective 15. Working Capital Perspective 16. Operations Perspective 17. Human Resources 18. Fact Sheets 19. Balanced Scorecard 20. Troubleshooting Analysis 21. Mastering Qlik Sense Data Visualization Index

Customer Fact sheet advanced components


Now that we've discussed the business story behind the customer fact sheet, let's review the different visualizations that compose it. We aim to create this perspective in the most precise way possible, so each one of the Post-it notes in our design will be separate objects. The labels and the numbers will be text objects that we align using the design grid tool that we introduced in Chapter 12, Sales Perspective.

In the next sections, we will review the following, more advanced components:

  • Bullet graphs

  • Sparklines

Bullet graph

The bullet chart was invented by Stephen Few to replace the bloated gauge chart in an information dashboard. Its compact design allows us to insert more information into a single view. The following bullet graph definition is from Mr. Few's website (https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/Bullet_Graph_Design_Spec.pdf) and you can read more about their use in his book Information Dashboard Design:

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