Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense

Creating charts

Before starting to create chart diagrams, delete the filters we've created in the previous section or create a new sheet.

To create a Qlik Sense visualization, you need to know three important things:

• The type of chart you are going to use
• The dimension objects you are going to use in your analysis
• The metric or metrics

We're going to start with a very basic chart. Our objective is to create a pie chart like the chart in the following screenshot. This chart explains the distribution of our customers between two channels – Horeca and Retail:

In this pie chart, the dimension is Channel and the measure is the number of customers. On the left-hand ...