Qlik Sense: Advanced Data Visualization for Your Organization: Create smart data visualizations and predictive analytics solutions

✍ Scribed by Dr. Christopher Ilacqua, Dr. Henric Cronstrom, James Richardson, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Perform Interactive Data Analysis with Smarter Visualizations and Support your Enterprise-wide Analytical Needs

Key Features

• Get a practical demonstration of discovering data for sales, human resources, and more using Qlik Sense
• Create dynamic dashboards for business intelligence and predictive analytics
• Create and collaborate comprehensive analytical solutions using Rattle and Qlik Sense

Book Description

Qlik Sense is powerful and creative visual analytics software that allows users to discover data, explore it, and dig out meaningful insights in order to make a profit and make decisions for your business. This course begins by introducing you to the features and functions of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense so you get to grips with the application.

The course will teach you how to administer the data architecture in Qlik Sense, enabling you to customize your own Qlik Sense application for your business intelligence needs. It also contains numerous recipes to help you overcome challenging situations while creating fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense. It explains how to combine Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop to apply predictive analytics to your data to develop real-world interactive data applications. The course includes premium content from three of our most popular books:

• Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide Second Edition
• Qlik Sense Cookbook
• Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense

On completion of this course, you will be self-sufficient in improving your data analysis and will know how to apply predictive analytics to your datasets. Through this course, you will be able to create predictive models and data applications, allowing you to explore your data insights much deeper.

What you will learn

• Build simple visualization models with Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop
• Get to grips with the life cycle and new visualization functions of a Qlik Sense application
• Discover simple ways to examine data and get it ready for analysis
• Visualize your data with Qlik Sense's engaging and informative graphs
• Build efficient and responsive Associative Models
• Optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery
• Explore various tips and tricks of navigation for the Qlik Sense® front end
• Develop creative extensions for your Qlik Sense® dashboard

Table of Contents

1. Qlik Sense® and Data Discovery
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
14. Getting Started with the Data
15. Visualizations
16. Scripting
17. Managing Apps and User Interface
18. Useful Functions
19. Set Analysis
20. Extensions in Qlik Sense®
21. What's New in Version 2.1.1?
22. Appendix
23. Getting Ready with Predictive Analytics
24. Preparing Your Data
25. Exploring and Understanding Your Data
26. Creating Your First Qlik Sense Application
27. Clustering and Other Unsupervised Learning Methods
28. Decision Trees and Other Supervised Learning Methods
29. Model Evaluation
30. Visualizations, Data Applications, Dashboards, and Data Storytelling
31. Developing a Complete Application
32. Bibliography