Reader small image

You're reading from  Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

Product typeBook
Published inDec 2015
Publisher
ISBN-139781785887161
Edition2nd Edition
Right arrow
Authors (4):
Christopher Ilacqua
Christopher Ilacqua
author image
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.
Read more about Christopher Ilacqua

Henric Cronström
Henric Cronström
author image
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.
Read more about Henric Cronström

James Richardson
James Richardson
author image
James Richardson

James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
Read more about James Richardson

View More author details
Right arrow

Adding the QlikMarket® data


The UK music chart app contains a field showing the country, the musician, or the group it originated from. Perhaps it would be interesting to know which countries have had more hits per head of population. It is easy to do this in Qlik Sense, and can be done directly with cloud deployed apps too.

First, within the app, open the Data Manager and click on Add data and select Qlik DataMarket. This shows you a menu with the categories of data available. In this case, select Demographics as shown in the following screenshot:

Qlik DataMarket data categories

At this point, the available datasets containing demographic information are shown, including those that are premium (that is, paid for) and those that are free. In this case, the free dataset World population by country is what is needed:

At this point, the data from the set is selected before loading:

In the app, there is already a field called Country, which Qlik Sense uses as a key in order to allow you to work with...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition
Published in: Dec 2015Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781785887161

Authors (4)

author image
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.
Read more about Christopher Ilacqua

author image
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.
Read more about Henric Cronström

author image
James Richardson

James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
Read more about James Richardson