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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that Domo Buzz is a social messaging and collaboration tool similar to Slack, but also eliminates the need to bring your own content by automatically providing conversation context with Pages, Cards, and Projects in Domo. We learned that there are several panes in Buzz for navigation, conversations, and conversation details. Buzz can be run in Domo as a standalone desktop app, and on mobile via the Domo app or browser. Social users enable unlimited free access to conversations, but functionality is limited for Social users. Emails can be imported as messages into conversations, bots can run to bring in messages from other services, and the notification settings can be controlled. Domo provides conversation context automatically for pages, cards, and projects. Images and URLs can be embedded directly in a message, and file attachments are also supported. Buzz is a robust messaging communication tool.

In the next chapter, we will dive into how to...