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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
Book Image

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

Summary


QuickSight provides a wide range of graphics to effectively analyze your data. The typical workflow to create insights is to first create datasets in QuickSights from sources like S3; then, prepare data; next create, QuickSight analysis, and then add visuals to analysis. For a given analysis, you can select one or more visualization options such as bar charts, lines charts, pivot tables, scatter plots, tree maps, pie charts, or heat maps.

QuickSight provides a storyboarding feature that can be used to preserve snapshots of an analysis and re-play the visuals in sequence as scenes of the Story. QuickSight also has a dashboard feature that can be used to share a read-only snapshot of an analysis to other QuickSight users.

However, QuickSight does lag behind its competitors in the feature set for visualizations and I expect, in future releases, it will enhance these capabilities.

In the next chapter, we will see how to manage users in QuickSight and manage permissions granted to QuickSight...