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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

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Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785887161
Pages 282 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (4):
Christopher Ilacqua Christopher Ilacqua
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Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the research director of product validation at Qlik®. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the US for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a doctorate in business administration, a master's degree in business administration in accounting, and a bachelor's degree in marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students strategic leadership, marketing, operations management, and MIS.
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QlikTech International AB QlikTech International AB
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Henric Cronström Henric Cronström
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Dr. Henric Cronström is vice president product and technical product advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the product manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as deputy manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts. Henric has a doctorate in elementary particle physics from Lund University.
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James Richardson James Richardson
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James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Learning Qlik Sense® The Official Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Preface
1. Qlik Sense® and Data Discovery 2. Overview of a Qlik Sense® Application's Life Cycle 3. Empowering Next Generation Data Discovery Consumers 4. Contributing to Data Discovery 5. Authoring Engaging Applications 6. Building Qlik Sense® Data Models 7. Qlik Sense® Apps in the Cloud 8. Extending the Qlik Analytic Platform 9. Administering Qlik Sense® 10. Sales Discovery 11. Human Resource Discovery 12. Travel Expense Discovery 13. Demographic Data Discovery Index

How the application was developed

The data model of the Happiness application is not very complicated:

This is an extremely simple data model that only contains one table of real data, Happy Planet Index, and an additional table listing all countries, World.shp/Features. The second table has one record per country and holds the map information—the shapes of the country—used in the map object in the user interface.

In this app, the data table has exactly one record per country—a record that contains the relevant information for a given country at a given moment. However, this is not always the situation. More often, the data table contains data for countries over many points in time, for example, one record per combination of a country and a year. This will result in several lines per country.

Dimensions

There are not many fields that can be used as dimensions. The three available fields are region, subregion, and country. The world is split into 7 regions and 19 subregions. A country can only...

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Profile icon Christopher Ilacqua
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Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the research director of product validation at Qlik®. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the US for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a doctorate in business administration, a master's degree in business administration in accounting, and a bachelor's degree in marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students strategic leadership, marketing, operations management, and MIS.
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Profile icon Henric Cronström
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Dr. Henric Cronström is vice president product and technical product advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the product manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as deputy manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts. Henric has a doctorate in elementary particle physics from Lund University.
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