Hand Philip - Qlik Sense Cookbook: Over 80 Recipes on Data Analytics to Solve Business Intelligence Challenges

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Pablo Labbe is a BI consultant with over 20 years' experience. In 2008 he was introduced to Qlikview, a former product by Qlik and the seed for Qlik Sense. Since then, he has focused on delivering BI solutions in a new way. Now he is the Principal of ANALITIKA Inteligencia, delivering BI projects and training on Qlik products and other technologies that embrace the self-service BI. Pablo is an active member of the Qlik community and other social media sites.

Philip Hand is a senior BI consultant who has worked with QlikView in the BI space for over 7 years. He has implemented end-to-end solutions in a wide variety of enterprises and for large business customers. He has spent many years consulting on business and QlikView solutions. His belief is that such a role proves invaluable to hone your skills through exposure to many different businesses, problems, technologies, industries, and people.

Neeraj Kharpate works as an independent BI consultant providing services to clients from various industries. Neeraj embarked on his journey with Qlik in mid-2007. He has over 10 years of experience working with clientele from multiple sectors, ranging from banks and insurance to retail. Neeraj has been closely following the developments in Qlik Sense ever since it was launched in 2014 and is actively involved with its enterprise-wide implementations.

Marcio Lins was born in Guarabira, Brazil, on June 21, 1983. He is the founder of the IMWTI (2012), a Qlik solution provider partner, a Certified Scrum Master, and a Qlik developer leader. He has worked more than 10 ERP and other technologies (PHP, C#, and Clipper). He specializes in the Qlik API, from bots to integration with corporate systems.

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Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing business intelligence (BI) tool for data discovery, analytics, and visualization. It allows you to create personalized BI solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it.

This book is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense developers. It will take you from the basics, right through to the use of more advanced functions. With the recipes in this book, you will be empowered to create fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense.

Starting with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, this book moves on to the more refined features of Qlik Sense, including visualization, scripting, set analysis, advanced aggregation, and useful extensions. The tips and tricks provided will help you to overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense. This and more will help you to deliver engaging dashboards and reports efficiently.

By the end of the book, you will be an expert user of Qlik Sense and will be able to use its features effectively for business intelligence in an enterprise environment.

The book is for anyone who has been exposed to Qlik Sense and wants to start using it actively for BI. Anybody with prior knowledge of its sister product, QlikView, will also benefit from this book. Familiarity with the basics of BI is a prerequisite.

, Getting Started with the Data, introduces the reader to different methods of loading data into Qlik Sense from various sources, such as relational databases, data files, FTP server, and web services. We will also delve into the creation and usage of Master Library in Qlik Sense and Data Manager for data preparation without code.