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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By: Rajesh Nadipalli

Overview of this book

Amazon QuickSight is the next-generation Business Intelligence (BI) cloud service that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers responsive insights into big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools. This book begins with an introduction to Amazon QuickSight, feature differentiators from traditional BI tools, and how it fits in the overall AWS big data ecosystem. With practical examples, you will find tips and techniques to load your data to AWS, prepare it, and finally visualize it using QuickSight. You will learn how to build interactive charts, reports, dashboards, and stories using QuickSight and share with others using just your browser and mobile app. The book also provides a blueprint to build a real-life big data project on top of AWS Data Lake Solution and demonstrates how to build a modern data lake on the cloud with governance, data catalog, and analysis. It reviews the current product shortcomings, features in the roadmap, and how to provide feedback to AWS. Grow your profits, improve your products, and beat your competitors.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Loading Redshift data to QuickSight


In this section, we will look into the data flow path from the US census to QuickSight using a Redshift data store. The source data is obtained from the public site and provides information about household income and population in the USA by zip code. The path to get to QuickSight involves the following steps:

  1. Uploading data to S3.

  2. Creating an AWS Data Pipeline to load data from S3 to Redshift.

  3. Loading data from Redshift to QuickSight.

Pre-requisites

The following are the pre-requisites to load data from Redshift to QuickSight:

  • Must have a Redshift instance created.

  • Data file must be a CSV. It cannot contain a header in the data file.

  • You must have a database username and password that can connect to the database from QuickSight with the SELECT permission on some system tables so that QuickSight can estimate the table size. These tables are pg_stats, pg_class, and pg_namespace.

Uploading data to S3

For this demonstration, we will use the file USACensusSalarybyZip...