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Mastering Qlik Sense
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Mastering Qlik Sense

by Ralf Becher, Karl Pover, Jason Michaelides, Dilyana Ivanova, David Alcobero, Martin Mahler, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
514 pages
13h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is an API?

We are connected with the world, and with each other, like never before. You can purchase goods, post feeds, upload pictures, or make a restaurant reservation via a mobile device or your computer. All that connectivity is enabled by the use of so-called APIs. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface), an API is a set of subroutines, definitions, protocols, and tools that can be utilized for building applications. It's a collection of building blocks that abstract the underlying implementation of a technology by only exposing specific objects or actions a developer can perform, and simplifies programming by doing so. In the example of a Qlik Sense API, the querying of the underlying ...

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