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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Himani Rana, Ning Ma, Neil Mehta
Book Image

Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Himani Rana, Ning Ma, Neil Mehta

Overview of this book

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is an absolute leader in the BI market and offers rich capabilities from basic data visualizations to predictive analytics. It lets you various delivery methods such as the Web, desktops, and mobiles. Using real-world BI scenarios, this book helps you to implement Business Analytics solutions in big e-commerce companies. It kicks off with MicroStrategy 10 features and then covers schema design models and techniques. Building upon your existing knowledge, the book will teach you advanced techniques for building documents and dashboards. It further teaches various graphical techniques for presenting data for analysis using maps, graphs, and advanced charts. Although MicroStrategy has rich functionality, the book will show how to customize it in order to meet your business requirements. You will also become familiar with the native analytical functions that will help you to maximize the impact of BI solutions with powerful predictive analytics. Furthermore, the book will focus on MicroStrategy Mobile Analytics along with data discovery and desktop capabilities such as connecting various data sources and building interactive dashboards. The book will also uncover best practices, troubleshooting techniques for MicroStrategy system administration, and also security and authentication techniques. Lastly, you will learn to use Hadoop for MicroStrategy reporting. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in evaluating any BI software in order to choose the best one that meets all business requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Design your first Hadoop dashboard


Download any sample big data files or extract logs from systems using Flume and so on. For the purpose of the book we will be downloading the dataset from the following URL:

http://www.seanlahman.com/?s=lahman591-csv.zip

Extract the ZIP file.

Upload the data file to HDFS by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to the HDFS files directory from the Hortonworks web interface.

  2. Navigate to /usr/maria_dev and click on the Upload button.

  3. Click on the Browse button, navigate to the location where we extracted the downloaded ZIP file, and select the batting.csv file.

  4. Now, open a Hive view by clicking on the Hive View button.

  5. In this view, create a table to hold the data by executing the following command:

          create table intermediate_batting (col_value STRING);
    
    
  6. Upon execution of the query, we can view the intermediate_batting table under default databases.

  7. Execute the following command to load the batting.csv data file into the intermediate_batting table:

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