Qlik Sense Important Glossary
Qlik Sense: A Data analytics modern new generation solution
Qlik Senes APP: A "Qlik Sense application" (or simply "app") is a self-contained,
purpose-built environment within the Qlik Sense platform where users can
visualize, analyze, and interact with data through interactive charts, tables, and
dashboards, designed to focus on a specific business task or area of analysis,
allowing for exploration and discovery of insights through the data associated
with that application;
Associative Selection: Searching the data with its relationship
Dimensions: Dimensions are those fields in a data table which are composed of
descriptive or informative text values.
Measures: Measures are those data fields which contain numeric or such values
which are calculable
Data Model : represent the data tables and its relationship
Snapshot: A screenshot or snapshot as called in Qlik Sense can be taken of any
visualization created in a Qlik Sense app
Architecure of Qlik Senese: represents the different layers of data
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QVF: represent the qilk file extension.
Data Profiling: viewing the source of data with summarizing and information of
data.
Story Telling: "storytelling" refers to the feature that allows users to create a
narrative presentation by taking snapshots of data visualizations within an app,
combining them with text and visual effects on slides, to effectively communicate
insights and key findings to an audience, essentially turning data into a compelling
story with a clear flow and context
Data Layers: a three-tier architecture where the first layer involves "Extract"
applications that focus solely on extracting raw data from various sources, 2ndly
transforming it into a business-ready format, and storing it in QVD (Qlik View
Data) files, third layer uses these QVDs to build visualizations and dashboards
within "Analysis" applications, essentially separating the data preparation from
the presentation layer.
Data Model Star Schema : A star schema in Qlik Sense is a data model that
organizes data into a central fact table connected to dimension tables. This
structure is designed to make it easier to understand and analyze data.
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Snow Flake Schema : Qlik Sense and Snowflake are tools that work together to
help businesses analyze and visualize data. Qlik Sense is a business intelligence
tool, and Snowflake is a cloud data platform
Data Bubles: In Qlik Sense, data bubbles are a visual representation of data
associations from multiple sources. The size of the bubble indicates the size of
the table.
Manual Data Associations:
A "manual association" in Qlik Sense refers to the process of explicitly defining a
relationship between two data tables by selecting specific fields from each table
to link them together, rather than relying on Qlik Sense's automatic association
detection; this is done in the data modeler when the software doesn't
automatically identify the correct connection between tables, allowing you to
manually specify which fields should be used as the key for association.
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