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Ferran Garcia Pagans
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Ferran Garcia Pagans studied software engineering at the University of Gironaand Ramon Llull University. After that, he did his masters in business administration at ESADE Business School. He has 16 years of experience in the software industry,where he has helped customers from different industries to create software solutions. He started his career working at the Ramon Llull University as a teacher and researcher.Then, he moved to the Volkswagen group as a software developer. After that, he worked with Oracle as a Java, SOA, and BPM specialist. Currently, he is a solution architect at Qlik, where he helps customers to achieve competitive advantages with data applications.
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Ferran Garcia Pagans studied software engineering at the University of Gironaand Ramon Llull University. After that, he did his masters in business administration at ESADE Business School. He has 16 years of experience in the software industry,where he has helped customers from different industries to create software solutions. He started his career working at the Ramon Llull University as a teacher and researcher.Then, he moved to the Volkswagen group as a software developer. After that, he worked with Oracle as a Java, SOA, and BPM specialist. Currently, he is a solution architect at Qlik, where he helps customers to achieve competitive advantages with data applications.
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This chapter was divided into three main sections depending on how we are looking at data – tables, text summaries, and charts.

When we saw text summaries, we introduced Summary, Describe, Basics, Kurtosis, and Skewness reports. To understand these reports, we needed to remember some basic statistics concepts like mean, median, mode, range, quartile, interquartile range, variance, and standard deviation.

In this chapter, we also introduced some important charts – histograms, correlations, Box Plot, and Bar Chart.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to load data into Qlik Sense and how to create data visualizations. We'll use some of the charts we introduced in this chapter. You'll see that Qlik Sense is more powerful for a business user who wants to understand his data and create a graphical representation of his data. Rattle and R are tools closer to statistics and some functionalities, like the correlations analysis, are very powerful; for this reason, we've introduced EDA using...

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Ferran Garcia Pagans

Ferran Garcia Pagans studied software engineering at the University of Gironaand Ramon Llull University. After that, he did his masters in business administration at ESADE Business School. He has 16 years of experience in the software industry,where he has helped customers from different industries to create software solutions. He started his career working at the Ramon Llull University as a teacher and researcher.Then, he moved to the Volkswagen group as a software developer. After that, he worked with Oracle as a Java, SOA, and BPM specialist. Currently, he is a solution architect at Qlik, where he helps customers to achieve competitive advantages with data applications.
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Fernando G Pagans

Ferran Garcia Pagans studied software engineering at the University of Gironaand Ramon Llull University. After that, he did his masters in business administration at ESADE Business School. He has 16 years of experience in the software industry,where he has helped customers from different industries to create software solutions. He started his career working at the Ramon Llull University as a teacher and researcher.Then, he moved to the Volkswagen group as a software developer. After that, he worked with Oracle as a Java, SOA, and BPM specialist. Currently, he is a solution architect at Qlik, where he helps customers to achieve competitive advantages with data applications.
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