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Data Democratization with Domo

By : Jeff Burtenshaw
Book Image

Data Democratization with Domo

By: Jeff Burtenshaw

Overview of this book

Domo is a power-packed business intelligence (BI) platform that empowers organizations to track, analyze, and activate data in record time at cloud scale and performance. Data Democratization with Domo begins with an overview of the Domo ecosystem. You’ll learn how to get data into the cloud with Domo data connectors and Workbench; profile datasets; use Magic ETL to transform data; work with in-memory data sculpting tools (Data Views and Beast Modes); create, edit, and link card visualizations; and create card drill paths using Domo Analyzer. Next, you’ll discover options to distribute content with real-time updates using Domo Embed and digital wallboards. As you advance, you’ll understand how to use alerts and webhooks to drive automated actions. You’ll also build and deploy a custom app to the Domo Appstore and find out how to code Python apps, use Jupyter Notebooks, and insert R custom models. Furthermore, you’ll learn how to use Auto ML to automatically evaluate dozens of models for the best fit using SageMaker and produce a predictive model as well as use Python and the Domo Command Line Interface tool to extend Domo. Finally, you’ll learn how to govern and secure the entire Domo platform. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the skills you need to become a successful Domo master.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Data Pipelines
7
Section 2: Presenting the Message
12
Section 3: Communicating to Win
17
Section 4: Extending
21
Section 5: Governing

Learning about storytelling patterns

Many dashboards are built to organize information, but often, that structure is not telling a story. Rather, these metric container dashboards can be classified as monitoring dashboards and are very functional for discovery. In fact, the monitoring dashboard forms the basis for identifying and supporting a story. But if we stop there, a monitoring approach leads to analysts still creating slide decks to communicate the story. The evolution from monitoring to storytelling in business intelligence (BI) tools is just beginning, and Domo Stories enables better storytelling on a platform. The great news is that a pattern exists for telling business stories, and tools beyond PowerPoint are starting to enable the implementation of the pattern. The following screenshot shows a universal business storytelling pattern:

Figure 10.18 – Storytelling pattern

Figure 10.18 – Storytelling pattern

The pattern sequence in Figure 10.18 is structured for executive...