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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
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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

Sharing dashboards


A read-only snapshot of an analysis can be shared with other QuickSight users by using dashboards. The users who are given access to the dashboard can view and filter the dashboard data, and re-share the dashboard with others.

Following are the steps for creating and publishing a dashboard:

  1. From the QuickSight home page, select the USA Census analysis

  2. Next, click on the Share button from the application bar and then select Create new dashboard as an option.

  3. Enter a name for the dashboard.

  4. Next, click on Create dashboard as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 4.43: Dashboard creation

  5. Next, you can publish to other QuickSight users by entering username or e-mails as shown in the following screenshot.

  6. And finally, click on Publish Dashboard to publish and share the dashboard.

    Figure 4.44: Publishing a dashboard