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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition

You're reading from Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition Get the most out of your Qlik Sense investment with the latest insight and guidance direct from the Qlik Sense team

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785887161

Length 282 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Qlik Sense

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (4):

QlikTech International AB

Christopher Ilacqua

Henric Cronström

James Richardson

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Qlik Sense® and Data Discovery FREE CHAPTER

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 for the Human Capital Management application looks similar to what is shown in the following diagram:

How the application was developed

There are six tables in this application:

Employees: This is the main table, which has one record per employee and month. It contains all the relevant information about the employee such as country, position, salary, and so on. It would probably be a cleaner data model if this table were split into one table containing employee information that doesn't change over time and another table with the time-dependent information.
However, since the QIX engine analyzes the data just as efficiently either way, we don't see any great benefit in spending time structuring the data more.
Preview of the Employees table
Hierarchy: This table contains information about the hierarchy of the employee, such as who the manager of the employee is, and who the VP of the employee is.
Survey: This table contains the results from an external survey made on employee...

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Authors (4)

QlikTech International AB

QlikTech International AB

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Christopher Ilacqua

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

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

James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik. Prior to joining Qlik, James spent 6 years as a Gartner analyst covering business intelligence and analytics. During his tenure, along with advising hundreds of organizations on BI topics, James was the lead author of the Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms report and was the chairperson and keynote speaker for Gartner's European BI summit. Before Gartner, James spent 13 years at BI and performance management software vendor IMRS/Arbor/Hyperion in various roles. Prior to that, James worked for Sema Group developing software for industrial control systems (SCADA), and as an advertising copywriter. In 2015, he was named one of the UK's top 50 data leaders by Information Age magazine.

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