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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)

Chord diagrams

Using a directed network diagram, we were able to identify the nations that experienced a spike or dip in their imports from other nations in 2010. We also noticed the nations that imported the most in that visualization. How about we now ask the question: which country exported more than they imported in 2014? How much did they import or export? Let's say we already have a list of nations in which we are interested, and they happen to be China, Germany, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

We will use a chord diagram to do this. The filter conditions on the year 2014 and the list of trading nations in which we are interested can be specified in the Custom WHERE clause text field:

(exporter="United Kingdom" OR exporter="Japan" OR exporter="China" OR exporter="Germany" OR exporter="India"...