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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)

List Base Permissions page

This page has a list of permissions that can be applied on a view or menu. The current user has the admin role so has all the permissions on all the Views/Menus items in the Superset web app. The admin role and gives permission to alter all charts, dashboards, data sources, and users. Gamma roles do not have permissions to alter any charts, dashboards, data sources, or users. But we can create customized roles that are assigned the gamma role with additional permissions on specific data sources. This will allow the new custom role to view charts on permitted data sources. They also have permission to create new charts on those data sources.

The alpha role gives permissions to view all charts and dashboards, alter all charts and dashboards, and alter data sources, but not to modify permissions for other users:

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