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Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

By : Shashank Shekhar
Book Image

Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

By: Shashank Shekhar

Overview of this book

Apache Superset is a modern, open source, enterprise-ready business intelligence (BI) web application. With the help of this book, you will see how Superset integrates with popular databases like Postgres, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and MySQL. You will learn to create real time data visualizations and dashboards on modern web browsers for your organization using Superset. First, we look at the fundamentals of Superset, and then get it up and running. You'll go through the requisite installation, configuration, and deployment. Then, we will discuss different columnar data types, analytics, and the visualizations available. You'll also see the security tools available to the administrator to keep your data safe. You will learn how to visualize relationships as graphs instead of coordinates on plain orthogonal axes. This will help you when you upload your own entity relationship dataset and analyze the dataset in new, different ways. You will also see how to analyze geographical regions by working with location data. Finally, we cover a set of tutorials on dashboard designs frequently used by analysts, business intelligence professionals, and developers.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

User Authentication and Permissions

Superset's user management is defined using roles. Roles are templates of permission sets that can be applied on one or more users, and modified if required. They can be used to manage permissions for different types of Superset user. Data analysts might need permissions to build new charts and modify data sources, but some users might only need permissions to view specific dashboards. Separate user roles have to be applied to both types of user.

Alpha and gamma are the building blocks of user roles. With either of those templates, we can assign a custom set of permissions and save it as a new role. We can then create roles such as data analyst, DevOps engineer, business, and product manager and apply them to one or many users.

The superset init command that was executed to set up Superset synchronizes the definition of roles such as alpha...