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Ferran Garcia Pagans
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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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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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Creating charts


Before starting to create chart diagrams, delete the filters we've created in the previous section or create a new sheet.

To create a Qlik Sense visualization, you need to know three important things:

  • The type of chart you are going to use

  • The dimension objects you are going to use in your analysis

  • The metric or metrics

We're going to start with a very basic chart. Our objective is to create a pie chart like the chart in the following screenshot. This chart explains the distribution of our customers between two channels – Horeca and Retail:

In this pie chart, the dimension is Channel and the measure is the number of customers. On the left-hand side of the following screenshot, there is a bar with all of the different charts that Qlik Sense provides. Drag a pie chart and drop it into the central area as shown in the following screenshot. Change the size of the chart with the orange lines and place it wherever you prefer:

In order to finish the pie chart, you need to choose a dimension...

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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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