Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView
Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

Author: Julian Villafuerte

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1785288571

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Bring real business insights to your company through effective and engaging dashboards in QlikView About This Book Build outstanding dashboards that respond to your company's information needs Present the data in efficient and innovative ways to promote insights Unleash the true power of QlikView by creating engaging visualizations Who This Book Is For This book is focused on QlikView developers with basic knowledge of scripting and layouts who want to improve their designing skills and build effective, eye-catching dashboards that deliver tangible value to their business. What You Will Learn Build a comprehensive library of QlikView components to speed up your developments Define a practical roadmap that will help you build business-driven dashboards Explore the most effective and engaging ways to present data Apply the best practices in the field of data visualization Avoid common pitfalls when creating bar, line and pie charts Create robust visualizations such as heat maps, histograms and scatter plots In Detail QlikView is one of the most powerful analytical tools in the market. Based on an in-memory associative model, it lets users freely navigate through the data, spot trends and make better decisions. This platform is capable of integrating a wide range of data sources like ERP systems, data warehouses or spreadsheets into a single application in order display dashboards with state-of-the-art visualizations. Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView is an easy to follow handbook that guides you through the process of creating an effective and engaging dashboard that delivers tangible value to the business. It starts with the identification of the business needs and the definition of the main KPIs, and takes you all the way to the application rollout. Throughout the book, you will learn how to apply some of the best practices in the field of data visualization, create a robust navigation schema, chose the best chart types for each scenario and many other things that will help you create effective dashboards that uncover all the stories behind the data. Style and approach This easy-to-follow compilation of best practices, tips, and tricks will help you leverage your QlikView developments. Each section presents practical guidelines to help you create dashboards that are not only functional, but also engaging and compelling.

QlikView Essentials
QlikView Essentials

Author: Chandraish Sinha

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1784395080

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Want to solve your Business Intelligence headaches? Learn how QlikView can help, and discover a powerful yet accessible BI solution that lets you harness your data About This Book Design interactive dashboards using QlikView to share sharp BI insights Discover how to create effective data models to manage and harness your data with QlikView's ETL functionality Learn and implement best practices to successfully integrate QlikView within your organization Who This Book Is For If you recognize the challenges of harnessing data for a modern business this book is for. Maybe you already know a little about QlikView – if you want to learn more, QlikView Essentials is a great way to develop your knowledge and skills. What You Will Learn Learn the complete QlikView workflow – from loading data, to visualization and analytics Learn how to Load data from different sources, including QVD files and how to optimize data models for accuracy and precision Discover solutions to common data modeling problems, so you can respond quickly to changing situations Create accessible dashboards and quality data visualizations to share insights effectively Learn how to deploy your BI application for optimal availability In Detail This guide demonstrates just how easy it is to get started with QlikView and create your own BI application. Featuring an introduction to its core features before exploring how to load data and model it, you'll soon become more confident that you can take full advantage of QlikView's capabilities. You will also learn how to use QVD files with QlikView – and how they offer a simpler way of handling data. After digging deeper into data handling, as you learn how to use mapping tables and create a master calendar, you'll then find out how to get the most from QlikView's visualization features – vital if you are to use your data insights effectively. From accessible and user friendly dashboards to strategies and best practices for subjecting data to further analysis, you can be confident that you'll be prepared to get the most out of your data with QlikView. With details on how to finally secure your application and deploy it for a successful integration in your organization, QlikView Essentials underlines exactly why QlikView is becoming more and more popular for businesses that understand the value of data. Style and approach The book takes a step-by-step approach to QlikView development, and is explained in an easy-to-follow style. Each topic is accompanied by an exercise so you can put your knowledge into practice. This book will be useful for you no matter what your needs and experience levels with the technology.

Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView
Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

Author: Abhishek Agarwal

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1838644997

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A step-by-step approach to building stunning dashboards with QlikView Key FeaturesPerform effective storytelling through interactive dashboards built with QlikViewCreate different types of visualizations from a variety of data sourcesIncludes tips, tricks, and best practices to perform effective Business Intelligence using QlikViewBook Description QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView. What you will learnLearn to use the latest and newest features of QlikViewConnect QlikView to various data sources, such as databases and websitesCreate a fully featured data model without circular referencesDisplay your data in maps, charts, and text across multiple sheetsApply set analysis to your data in QlikView expressionsSecure your data based on the various audience typesWho this book is for This book is best suited for BI professionals, data analysts and budding QlikView developers who wish to build effective dashboards using QlikView. Some basic understanding of the data visualization concepts and Business Intelligence is required.

Implementing Qlik Sense
Implementing Qlik Sense

Author: Ganapati Hegde

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1786466600

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Become a full-fledged Qlik Sense Consultant with the help of this unique guide About This Book Become a successful Qlik consultant with the help of this insightful guide Build what is in line as well as exceeding your customer's expectations from your Qlik Sense solutions using this highly practical guide Build result-driven optimized BI solutions using Qlik with the help of industry examples Who This Book Is For If you have basic familiarity with Qlik Sense and want to upgrade your skills to become a full-fledged Qlik Consultant, this book is for you. With this book, you will be able to create efficient business intelligence solutions that would fetch client satisfaction, and in turn, more projects. What You Will Learn Understand the importance and expectations of a consultant's role Engage with the customer to understand the ir goals and future objectives Design the optimum architecture, using the best practices for the development and implementation of your projects Ensure successful adoption using real-life examples to make your learning complete Learn about the important stages of a Qlik project's life cycle In Detail Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards. Style and approach This book will be a hands-on guide that will teach you all the what-to-do's, when-to-do's, and how-to-do's for becoming a successful Qlik Sense Consultant. With the help of various business scenarios, the book will cover real-world problems that you can relate to. Various solutions in the book will be backed up by the thought process of why are these solutions used and how you can implement them in your own business environment.

Sport Performance Analytic Methods
Sport Performance Analytic Methods

Author: John R. Todorovich

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2024-03-28

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1718217927

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In today’s sports world, decision makers, coaches, trainers, and athletes readily embrace sport performance analytics (SPA) and expect decisions to be based on such analyses. Organizations adept at collecting data, analyzing data, and applying findings enjoy a competitive advantage on the field—and a positive impact on the bottom line. For sport management students with a passion for sports and an aptitude for analytics, SPA presents an enticing career choice—one in high demand. Sport Performance Analytic Methods With HKPropel Access not only introduces students to the field of sport performance analytics but also walks them through the entire SPA process. This unparalleled approach equips students to employ SPA tools and techniques to make informed decisions affecting organization performance and success. The content of the book is driven by the SPA model, a seven-step process providing a guided pathway for conducting SPA analyses: Establish what you want to know Define the data you will collect Determine the data collection process and collect data Analyze the data Interpret the results Present the results Make data-based decisions The opening chapter emphasizes the importance of establishing the SPA objectives. The focus then shifts to understanding foundational data concepts, with discussions on quantitative and qualitative data, types and scale of variables, temporal aspects of data, process and product data, and validity and reliability of data. Methods and tools for collecting data are explored next, including technology-assisted data acquisition tools such as wearable devices and biometric sensing devices. Students will then examine quantitative statistical concepts that can be used to analyze data and even help make predictions about future player or team performance. Key concepts include descriptive statistics, data sets, inferential statistics, group comparisons, and linear regressions. The text also addresses techniques for collecting and analyzing qualitative data—including observation, content, narrative, discourse, thematic, and grounded theory analyses—ensuring that all forms of data are considered to produce successful outcomes. Finally, the text demonstrates how to present SPA data in a format useful to apply in decision making. Students learn how coaches and performance data analysts use data to inform pre- and postcompetition strategic and tactical plans, make in-game decisions, evaluate team and individual performance, and make decisions for teams, players, and organizations. Related online resources, delivered via HKPropel, provide students with hands-on learning tools. In addition to descriptions of the primary SPA software packages, included are nine learning modules that allow students to go through various statistical procedures step by step, checking results, and improving performance. With Sport Performance Analytic Methods, students will gain a solid understanding of the principles made famous by Moneyball, and they will learn to use sport analytics to improve sport performance outcomes. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is not included with this ebook but may be purchased separately.

QlikView Unlocked
QlikView Unlocked

Author: Roger Stone

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1785287702

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Unlock more than 50 amazing tips and tricks to enhance your QlikView skills About This Book Learn QlikView development best practices from the experts Discover valuable tips, tricks, and undocumented features A fast-paced guide with techniques and best practices to optimize high-performance, robust, and scalable applications Who This Book Is For QlikView Unlocked is intended for anyone with at least some experience in designing, developing, or supporting QlikView applications. Whether you are new to QlikView or are a seasoned developer, there is something for everyone in this book. What You Will Learn Build the QlikView environment correctly so that it is flexible and robust Deliver a successful QlikView project Understand and implement QlikView best practices Discover the best way to prototype, develop, and deploy applications Overcome data modeling challenges Explore the in's and out's of Section Access Solve post-deployment issues in Server and Publisher In Detail QlikView is considered as one of the most used tool for Business Intelligence (BI). An efficient BI tool should provide five important capabilities for effective data analysis—collection (gathering important information), reporting, analysis (the ability to interact with data), visualization (the presentation of data), and discovery (exploring data). QlikView offers all these necessary skills required to deal with big data in real-world scenarios. QlikView Unlocked will provide you with new insights to get the very best from QlikView. This book will help you to develop skills to work with data efficiently. We will cover all the secrets of unleashing the full power of QlikView, which will enable you to make better use of the tool and create better results for future projects. In the course of this book, we will walk you through techniques and best practices that will enable you to be more productive. You will gain quick insights into the tool with the help of short steps called ”keys,” which will help you discover new features of QlikView. Moving on you will learn new techniques for data visualization, scripting, data modeling, and more. This book will then cover best practices to help you establish an efficient system with improved performance. We will also teach you some tricks that will help you speed up development processes, monitor data with dashboards, and so on. By the end of this book, you will have gained beneficial tips, tricks, and techniques to enhance the overall experience of working with QlikView. Style and approach Written in a fairly informal style, this is a book that can be read cover-to-cover or simply used as a ”how-to” reference. Using real-world examples with clear explanations, code samples, and screenshots, you will be able understand each topic fully. You will be able to apply the knowledge gained to your QlikView projects.

Mastering Qlik Sense
Mastering Qlik Sense

Author: Juan Ignacio Vitantonio

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-03-16

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1782174877

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Master the capabilities of Qlik Sense to design and deploy solutions that address all the Business Intelligence needs of your organization Key Features Create compelling dashboards and visualizations with your data by leveraging Qlik Sense's self-service model Perform data loading and model efficient solutions with faster performance and better governance Master Qlik Sense’s APIs and develop powerful mashups and fantastic extensions for visualizations and other components that run across all platforms Book Description Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it. This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. What you will learn Understand the importance of self-service analytics and the IKEA-effect Explore all the available data modeling techniques and create efficient and optimized data models Master security rules and translate permission requirements into security rule logic Familiarize yourself with different types of Master Key Item(MKI) and know how and when to use MKI. Script and write sophisticated ETL code within Qlik Sense to facilitate all data modeling and data loading techniques Get an extensive overview of which APIs are available in Qlik Sense and how to take advantage of a technology with an API Develop basic mashup HTML pages and deploy successful mashup projects Who this book is for This book is for Business Intelligence professionals and Data Analysts who want to become experts in using Qlik Sense. If you have extensively used QlikView in the past and are looking to transition to Qlik Sense, this book will also help you. A fundamental understanding of how Qlik Sense works and its features is all you need to get started with this book.

Social Data Analytics
Social Data Analytics

Author: Amin Beheshti

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 100064460X

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This book is an introduction to social data analytics along with its challenges and opportunities in the age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. It focuses primarily on concepts, techniques and methods for organizing, curating, processing, analyzing, and visualizing big social data: from text to image and video analytics. It provides novel techniques in storytelling with social data to facilitate the knowledge and fact discovery. The book covers a large body of knowledge that will help practitioners and researchers in understanding the underlying concepts, problems, methods, tools and techniques involved in modern social data analytics. It also provides real-world applications of social data analytics, including: Sales and Marketing, Influence Maximization, Situational Awareness, customer success and Segmentation, and performance analysis of the industry. It provides a deep knowledge in social data analytics by comprehensively classifying the current state of research, by describing in-depth techniques and methods, and by highlighting future research directions. Lecturers will find a wealth of material to choose from for a variety of courses, ranging from undergraduate courses in data science to graduate courses in data analytics.

QlikView 11 for Developers
QlikView 11 for Developers

Author: Miguel García

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2012-11-23

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 1849686076

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It will be a step-by-step tutorial that will discuss best practices. The book is structured in such a way that it can be read both from start to end or can be dipped into. If you are a developer who is looking to learn a fast and easy way to learn to develop your business intelligence apps with QlikView, then this book is for you. If you are a power-user in a QlikView environment, then you will find quicker ways of working with QlikView. You should know the basics of business intelligence before you pick up this book. This book covers QlikView Desktop Personal Edition. Deployments to QlikView Server/Publisher are out of scope for this book.

QlikView for Finance
QlikView for Finance

Author: B. Diane Blackwood

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1784397946

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Concoct dynamic business intelligence dashboards for financial analysis with QlikView About This Book Get accustomed to QlikView features for effective data analysis and visualization in Finance Employ the Memory data store, which refreshes data in real time, providing a faster response to business financial information A step-by step guide to using Qlikview features such as key performance indicators, interactive charts, and tables for financial analysis Who This Book Is For If you are a finance professional with basic knowledge of QlikView functions and wish to increase your knowledge of QlikView to apply it in the field of finance, then this book is for you. A good knowledge of financial aspects is an must-have. What You Will Learn Design Key Performance Indicators and extend your revenue ratio reporting Set up actions within a Text Object and create variables to make a chart toggle between visible and not visible Merge data from multiple sources to get more asset management options Examine good and bad practices in dashboard design and create a Group button to make more data available in less space Analyse the sales dashboard by adding tending lines and forecasting Create input boxes and use the input in formulas to perform “What If” analysis Examine the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and Inventory Turnover, and investigate the usefulness of Pivot Create a QlikView analysis document and add data to it to gain deep insights In Detail This book is an effective step-by-step tutoring guide for financial analysis using Qlikview. It begins by teaching you the crucial concepts of Qlikview Finance to help you develop an effective understanding of financial data analysis and finance. The book then goes on to cover real-world, practical examples on the use of Qlikview for financial planning and analysis, expense management, risk management, and more. Moving on, topics such as Asset Management QlikView Dashboard and Retail Sales Analysis are covered in a strategic way. We then shift the focus to deal with the concepts of Inventory, Supply Chain, and Plant Coverage Dashboards. The book then reaches its conclusion by dealing with ways to share your QlikView insights. By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of how to use Qlikview for numerous applications in finance. Style and approach This book is designed to explore what can be done in QlikView to facilitate Financial Analysis. It follows a step-by-step approach and each chapter has easy-to-follow, hands-on examples of important concepts.