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Redash v5 Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Leibzon, Yael Leibzon
Book Image

Redash v5 Quick Start Guide

By: Alexander Leibzon, Yael Leibzon

Overview of this book

Data exploration and visualization is vital to Business Intelligence, the backbone of almost every enterprise or organization. Redash is a querying and visualization tool developed to simplify how marketing and business development departments are exposed to data. If you want to learn to create interactive dashboards with Redash, explore different visualizations, and share the insights with your peers, then this is the ideal book for you. The book starts with essential Business Intelligence concepts that are at the heart of data visualizations. You will learn how to find your way round Redash and its rich array of data visualization options for building interactive dashboards. You will learn how to create data storytelling and share these with peers. You will see how to connect to different data sources to process complex data, and then visualize this data to reveal valuable insights. By the end of this book, you will be confident with the Redash dashboarding tool to provide insight and communicate data storytelling.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the different options of installing a self-hosted Redash, including detailed step by step guidance. We also reviewed the setup.sh script, which is the basis of all of the installation options, and went through a common troubleshooting practice.

Then, we covered how to configure and test emails, went over all of Redash's environment settings, and in addition covered the permissions mechanism (Users and Groups) in Redash.

The next chapter will guide you in how to create your first queries, visualizations, and dashboards.