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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)

Sankey's diagram

Sankey diagrams are flow diagrams where the width of the arrows is shown as proportional to the flow quantity. We will use one to understand from where merchandise goods imported into Western European nations originate. Because the number of nations that export to Western European nations is too large to visualize, we will group trade flow by the geographical regions of the exporting nations:

Setting parameters for the Sankey's diagram for showing imports to the Western Europe in 2014

The Since and Until fields in the Time section can be cleared because we will use 2014 as the value in the year column to filter rows in the dataset. Groups of nations can be represented using the value in their exporter_region as the Source field and importer column to represent the Western European nations. In order to only select a Western European country as the Target...