The Insights Advisor will let us explore our data. It does not care whether we have any previous knowledge about the information that is being presented to us. Instead, it uses the power of the new Qlik Cognitive Engine to create visualizations for us. We can generate visualizations that scan all of the data of our application, or we can select a field or a Master item and let Insights Advisor suggest some charts based on the data.
The following steps will help us to use Insights Advisor to the fullest:
- Click on the Insights button and then click on the Generate Insights button, as shown in the following screenshot:
- After a short amount of time, several visualizations will be generated and displayed on the screen.
- Scroll down to review the suggested visualizations. We can add the one we find most interesting or informative to the sheet using the Add to sheet button. For this exercise, let's choose the first visualization and click on the Add to sheet button, and then select the My first charts sheet:
- The Add to sheet message will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. This is just to confirm that the suggested chart has been added to the sheet. Optionally, we can click on the shortcut at the bottom-right of our screen in order to proceed to the sheet, as demonstrated in the following screenshot:
