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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

Building effective visuals


QuickSight visuals are interactive and support customization, sorting, and filters. In this section, we will see the different options and recommendations. The following are the options under QuickSight:

  • Bar chart

  • Line chart

  • Pivot table

  • Scatter plot

  • Tree map

  • Pie chart

  • Heat map

  • Autograph

Changing visual type

To change the current visual of a chart, follow the steps as follows:

  1. Select the analysis you wish to change.

  2. Next, expand the Visual types section and you will see all available options as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 4.14: Visual types

  3. Now you can select the chart you want to change to.

  4. Alternatively, you can select the autograph option, which is represented by the lightning sign. QuickSight will use the most appropriate visual type based on the dataset.

Bar charts

QuickSight supports a wide range of bar charts for single-measure, multi-measure, stacked, or stacked 100% in horizontal or vertical orientation. In the next few sections we will discuss how to best...