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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

Dashboards on the go


The first thing you will see in the QuickSight app is a list of dashboards that you are authorized to see with their respective links to a detailed view for easy access. If you don't see this dashboard list, then click on the Dashboards icon from the menu at the bottom of your mobile device, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.2: Accessing dashboards

You will now see the list of dashboards associated with your user ID. In the next few sections, we will review how to navigate to other dashboard features.

Dashboard detailed view

From the dashboard listing, select USA Census Dashboard, which will then redirect you to the detailed dashboard view. In the detailed dashboard view, you will see all visuals that are part of that dashboard. You can click on the arrow to the extreme top right of each visual to open the specific chart in full screen mode, as shown in the following screenshot. In the scatter plot analysis shown here, you can further click on any of the dots...