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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

Telling a story


Story is an exciting feature from QuickSight that can be used for effective presentations and snapshots of your analysis that you want to share with your team members or executive management. QuickSight allows you to take a snapshot of your chart and preserve all the formatting and filters to what is called a scene. A story is a set of scenes that can be played in a sequence. In this section, we will review how to create and manage stories.

Creating a story

Every analysis comes with a default story called Storyboard1. As you work with your analysis, you can capture a specific visual to the StoryBoard as a scene. Let's review the steps to create a story using the USA census analysis.

  1. From the QuickSight home page, select the USA Census analysis.

  2. Next, select the first chart that you want to add to the Story and click on Capture in the top-right corner.

  3. This will change the focus of the toolbar from Visualize to Story.

  4. Next, you can rename the scene from Scene 1 to Bubble Chart.

  5. You...