topic Re: What is a Dimension? in QlikView

What is a Dimension?

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT

People, I see the term Field and I see the term Dimension. It gets rather confusing. What, in a layman's language, is a Dimension?

Does a Field become a Dimension? If yes, at what point?

Thanks.

Arthur_Fong — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:10:48 GMT

Dimension is a field that you would group your value in your preferred chart or table.

For example, you would have a sum of sales by each month in a table.

In this table, the month act as your dimension whereas Sum of Sales is your measurement

A measurement is a field where you may perform aggregation function, such as sum,count,min,max and so on.

Thanks and regards,

Arthur Fong

pooja_prabhu_n — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:33:21 GMT

Hi,

Refer this link

Thanks,

Pooja

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:19:00 GMT

It is a descriptive field in the data set which represents few distinct values.

Examples − Month, Year, Product ID etc.

A field rather is used as a dimension.

Thanks

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:27:24 GMT

Thanks a lot for the link. It led me to this link

Nice!

datagrrl — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:49:04 GMT

Dimensions are your categories or groups.

Fields can be either Dimensions or Measures. Dimensions are qualitative.

In the Question...."What are our Sales by Country?"

Country is a dimension, sales is a measure.