Structuring visualizations

As discussed in the introduction, when choosing visualizations, you should start with knowing if you are looking at a comparison, composition, distribution, or relationship.

While this helps in answering a single question effectively, this is often to fulfill the goal that you want to see the information from different angles. Structuring visualizations to easily answer "the next question" keeps consistency in analysis.

While in QlikView, it is common to design a user interface with more interaction than simply filtering the data. Qlik Sense is built with a large focus on the business user and analyst. This recipe involves little practical work and instead, it carries the torch for the expert designers in the product team at Qlik. Here is an example of how and why you should make use of a screen and not just an object.

 

 

Getting ready

We will make use of the same Chapter 2 – Sales.qvf application used in the Distribution recipe.

How to do it…

The charts that were built...