Book description
Create dynamic dashboards to perform interactive analytics for business intelligence operations
Key Features
- Explore newly added features in Qlik Sense
- Discover best practices to work with data using Qlik Sense
- Learn to implement advanced functions for better data insight
Book Description
Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple and complex data to reveal hidden insight and data relationships that help you make quality decisions for overall productivity. An expert Qlik Sense user can use its features for business intelligence in an enterprise environment effectively. Qlik Sense Cookbook is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense developers and will empower you to create featured desktop applications to obtain daily insights at work.
This book takes you through the basics and advanced functions of Qlik Sense February 2018 release. You'll start with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, and move on to some more refined features including visualization, and scripting, as well as managing apps and user interfaces. You will then understand how to work with advanced functions like set analysis and set expressions. As you make your way through this book, you will uncover newly added features in Qlik Sense such as new visualizations, label expressions and colors for dimension and measures.
By the end of this book, you will have explored various visualization extensions to create your own interactive dashboard with the required tips and tricks. This will help you overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense.
What you will learn
- Source, preview, and distribute your data through interactive dashboards
- Explore and work with the latest visualization functions
- Learn how to write and use script subroutines
- Make your UI advanced and intuitive with custom objects and indicators
- Use visualization extensions for your Qlik Sense dashboard
- Work with Aggr and learn to use it within set analysis
Who this book is for
Qlik Sense Cookbook is for data and BI analysts who want to become well versed with Qlik Sense to apply business intelligence in data. If you are a beginner in data analytics and want to adopt an independent recipe-based approach to learn the required concepts and services in detail, this book is ideal! Individuals with prior knowledge of its sister product, QlikView, will also benefit from this book. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence is a prerequisite.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
-
Getting Started with the Data
- Introduction
- Extracting data from databases and data files
- Extracting data from web files
- Extracting data from the FTP server
- Extracting data from web services with REST Connector
- Activating the legacy mode in Qlik Sense® desktop
- Previewing data in the Data model viewer
- Creating a master library from the Data model viewer
- Using a master library in Edit mode
- Using visual data preparation on the data manager model viewer
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Visualizations
- Introduction
- Creating snapshots
- Creating and adding content to a story
- Adding embedded sheets to the story
- Highlighting the performance measure in a bar chart
- Associating persistent colors to field values using the script
- Using the colormix1 function
- Composition
- Relationships
- Comparison
- Distribution
- Structuring visualizations
- Measuring statistical data with box plot charts
- Using a waterfall chart to analyze the cumulative effect
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Scripting
- Introduction
- Structuring the script
- Efficiently debugging the script
- Packaging the code in script files
- How to use subroutines in Qlik Sense®
- Optimizing the UI calculation speed
- Optimizing the reload time of the application
- Using a For each loop to load data from multiple files
- Using the Concat() function to store multiple field values in a single cell
- Executing command-line programs within the script
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Managing Apps and the User Interface
- Introduction
- Publishing a Qlik Sense® application created in Qlik Sense® Desktop
- Creating private, approved, and community sheets
- Publishing a Qlik Sense® application to Qlik Sense® Cloud
- Creating geo maps in Qlik Sense®
- Reference lines in a Sales versus Target gauge chart
- Effectively using the KPI object in Qlik Sense®
- Creating treemaps
- Creating dimensionless bar charts in Qlik Sense®
- Adding reference lines to trendline charts
- Creating text and images
- Applying limitations to charts
- Adding thumbnails to a clear environment
- Navigating many data points in a scatter chart
- Using alternative dimensions and measures
- Using the visual exploration menu
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Useful Functions
- Introduction
- Using an extended interval match to handle slowly changing dimensions
- Using the Previous() function to identify the latest record read for a dimensional value
- Using the NetworkDays() function to calculate the working days in a calendar month
- Using the Concat() function to display a string of field values as a dimension
- Using the Minstring() function to calculate the age of the oldest case in a queue
- Using the RangeSum() function to plot cumulative figures in trendline charts
- Using the Fractile() function to generate quartiles
- Using the FirstSortedValue() function to identify the median in a quartile range
- Using the Declare and Derive functions to generate Calendar fields
- Setting up a moving annual total figure
- Using the For Each loop to extract files from a folder
- Using the Peek() function to create a currency exchange rate calendar
- Using the Peek() function to create a trial balance sheet
- Using the subfield() function to split field into multiple records
- Using the dual() function to set the sort order of dimensions
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Set Analysis
- Introduction
- Cracking the syntax for Set Analysis
- Using flags in Set Analysis
- Using the = sign with variables in Set Analysis
- Point in Time using Set Analysis
- Using comparison sets in Set Analysis
- Using embedded functions in Set Analysis
- Creating a multi-measure expression in Set Analysis
- Using search strings inside a set modifier
- Capturing a list of field values using a Cconcat() function in Set Analysis
- Using the element functions P() and E() in Set Analysis
- Using the intersection between sets for Basket Analysis
- Using alternate states
- Using Extensions in Qlik Sense
- Advanced Aggregation with AGGR
- Tips and Tricks
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781788997058
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