Data visualization in Qlik Sense

In Chapter 4, Creating Your First Qlik Sense Application, we saw how to create a Qlik Sense application. We also saw how to load data and how to create charts. The objective of this chapter is not to create a lot of charts. We are going to explore, in detail, a bar chart to explore the configuration options and we'll describe the charts provided by Qlik Sense and when to use the different data visualizations. We'll also look at some ideas on how to create data visualizations.

Visualization toolbox

To see all the available options, open a Qlik Sense application in Edit mode and you will find all the options in the left hand pane. In the following screenshot, we can see the Charts pane:

Qlik Sense provides the following default charts:

• Bar chart: This is the simplest chart, it helps us to answer questions such as "Who are my best customers?" and "Who are the top performing salespeople?".

• Combo chart: In this chart, you can combine bars, lines, and points or symbols...