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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the data modeling techniques. We started with learning about the basics of data modeling. We looked at two types of data modeling: entity relationship modeling and dimensional modeling. We looked at dimensional modeling in detail and learned about the two widely-used data modeling schema: the star schema and the snowflake schema. We learned about which schema works best with Qlik Sense and why.

Moving ahead in chapter, we learned about different types of joins. We learned about what type of join is used for what purpose and what kind of output they generate. Then we looked at the pitfalls of using joins. It is important to keep thses in mind while using joins. Then, we learned about concatenation and the scenarios in which we should use the concatenation option. We also looked at automatic concatenation, forced concatenation, and NoConcatenation...

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