Chapter 5. Creating Dashboards

Previous chapters dealt with creating data models in QlikView. They laid the foundation for creating interactive visualizations or dashboards. A dashboard is a pictorial representation of data using charts and tables.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Learn the best practices of visualization
  • Learn about binary load
  • Learn about different visualization objects in QlikView
  • Learn how to create different kinds of charts
  • Learn about a few important functions

Dashboarding essentials

Dashboard or visualization applications are a pictorial representation of data.

  • They provide executives and analysts with insight into an organization's key performance indicators (KPIs) to make business decisions. They give users a snapshot of the KPIs and ...

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