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Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

By : Shashank Shekhar
Book Image

Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

By: Shashank Shekhar

Overview of this book

Apache Superset is a modern, open source, enterprise-ready business intelligence (BI) web application. With the help of this book, you will see how Superset integrates with popular databases like Postgres, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and MySQL. You will learn to create real time data visualizations and dashboards on modern web browsers for your organization using Superset. First, we look at the fundamentals of Superset, and then get it up and running. You'll go through the requisite installation, configuration, and deployment. Then, we will discuss different columnar data types, analytics, and the visualizations available. You'll also see the security tools available to the administrator to keep your data safe. You will learn how to visualize relationships as graphs instead of coordinates on plain orthogonal axes. This will help you when you upload your own entity relationship dataset and analyze the dataset in new, different ways. You will also see how to analyze geographical regions by working with location data. Finally, we cover a set of tutorials on dashboard designs frequently used by analysts, business intelligence professionals, and developers.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Partitioning

We can visualize how much nations in a particular geographical region import from other regions in a different way, using partition diagrams called TreeMaps. We will create a filter to select records for Asian (excluding Near East) nations. The first partitions will be proportional to the total import trade volume of each Asian nation. Then, each nation's partition will be further partitioned to show how much and in what proportions the nation imports from different geographical regions.

The nations controlling the largest area in the first partition will be the nations dominating the import market in Asia (excluding the Near East). The larger partitions inside each nation will represent the export market that supplies most of the merchandise goods to the corresponding Asian nation:

Setting parameters for the partition graph to display Asian nations imports...