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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

By : Labbe, Clever Anjos , Solanki, DiMaso
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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

3.3 (4)
By: Labbe, Clever Anjos , Solanki, DiMaso

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple-to-complex data to reveal hidden insights and data relationships to make business-driven decisions. Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense begins by helping you get to grips with underlying Qlik concepts and gives you an overview of all Qlik Sense’s features. You will learn advanced modeling techniques and learn how to analyze the data loaded using a variety of visualization objects. You’ll also be trained on how to share apps through Qlik Sense Enterprise and Qlik Sense Cloud and how to perform aggregation with AGGR. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll explore the stories feature to create data-driven presentations and update an existing story. This book will guide you through the GeoAnalytics feature with the geo-mapping object and GeoAnalytics connector. Furthermore, you’ll learn about the self-service analytics features and perform data forecasting using advanced analytics. Lastly, you’ll deploy Qlik Sense apps for mobile and tablet. By the end of this book, you will be well-equipped to run successful business intelligence applications using Qlik Sense's functionality, data modeling techniques, and visualization best practices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Qlik Sense and Business Intelligence
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Section 2: Data Loading and Modeling
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Section 3: Building an Analytical Application
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Section 4: Additional Features

QVDs

Unlike other data sources, Qlik also provides its own data format in which data can be stored. There are multiple advantages over loading data from the Qlik format, instead of loading data directly from the data source. QVDs are created from the Qlik Sense script using the Store command. It stores only single table data.

The Qlik data format is called QVD. Qlik uses the XML technique to store data into QVD. QVD contains three parts:

  • The XML header: This describes the fields in the table and some metadata
  • The symbol table: This stores the relationship between the data
  • The actual table: This stores the actual values of the field

Why use QVDs?

Let's understand why we should use the QVDs:

  • Decreasing load on the source...

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