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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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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 is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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The analysis interface—sheets and visualizations


Once you have loaded the data into Qlik Sense, it is time to create the visualizations in the analysis user interface. A basic set of sheets and visualizations should normally be supplied by the application developer, and additional ones can be created by the users themselves.

Creating a sheet

When you have loaded the data, Qlik Sense will usually create the sheet for you, and take you there. So, if you see a big blank area with the text The sheet is empty, you can skip to the next section:

But if you are still in the Load editor, you may need to perform the following steps to create a sheet:

  1. Go to App overview using the command in the top-left menu as shown in the next picture:

    The App overview command

  2. In App overview, you can create your first sheet by clicking on the sheet placeholder to the left, or on the button to the right:

    The Create new sheet button

  3. Name it and hit Enter. You have now created an empty sheet and need to put some visualizations...

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Christopher Ilacqua

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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Henric Cronström

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 is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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