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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

By : Manos Samatas
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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

By: Manos Samatas

Overview of this book

Amazon Quicksight is an exciting new visualization that rivals PowerBI and Tableau, bringing several exciting features to the table – but sadly, there aren’t many resources out there that can help you learn the ropes. This book seeks to remedy that with the help of an AWS-certified expert who will help you leverage its full capabilities. After learning QuickSight’s fundamental concepts and how to configure data sources, you’ll be introduced to the main analysis-building functionality of QuickSight to develop visuals and dashboards, and explore how to develop and share interactive dashboards with parameters and on-screen controls. You’ll dive into advanced filtering options with URL actions before learning how to set up alerts and scheduled reports. Next, you’ll familiarize yourself with the types of insights before getting to grips with adding ML insights such as forecasting capabilities, analyzing time series data, adding narratives, and outlier detection to your dashboards. You’ll also explore patterns to automate operations and look closer into the API actions that allow us to control settings. Finally, you’ll learn advanced topics such as embedded dashboards and multitenancy. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with QuickSight’s BI and analytics functionalities that will help you create BI apps with ML capabilities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight and the AWS Analytics Ecosystem
6
Section 2: Advanced Dashboarding and Insights
10
Section 3: Advanced Topics and Management

Controlling resources using the QuickSight API

In this section, we will learn how to control QuickSight resources using the QuickSight API. This section is not meant to be a full reference guide to the QuickSight API, nor is it going to cover every possible action that can be done using the API. For a full reference guide to the QuickSight API, please refer to the QuickSight documentation:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

This section will provide you with practical hands-on examples of using the API to control QuickSight resources. These examples will give you a solid understanding of the types of activities that can be completed using the API, which in turn will help you to manage your QuickSight environment.

Our first example will be to learn how to set up a data source using the QuickSight API.

Setting up a dataset using the CLI

In Chapter 2, Introduction to Amazon QuickSight, we learned how to create data sources and datasets...