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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
Book Image

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

Summary


SPICE is the brain of QuickSight and enables it to scale to thousands of users who can all simultaneously perform fast interactive analyses from a variety of AWS data sources. After data is imported to SPICE, it can be joined with other datasets and also enriched with a wide range of string, date, and numeric functions. Additionally, we can filter data based to restrict what dataset gets analyzed. The capacity of SPICE is 10 GB per user and is pooled across all users in the account that also allows organizations to automatically increase capacity as they grow the team size.

In the next chapter, we will see how to create a variety of interactive and effective visuals on top of the SPICE engine, empowering data analysts and management to make data-driven decisions.