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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

By : Manos Samatas
Book Image

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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight and the AWS Analytics Ecosystem
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Section 2: Advanced Dashboarding and Insights
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Section 3: Advanced Topics and Management

Summary

Congratulations on completing this chapter.

In this chapter, we learned how to configure permissions for our Amazon QuickSight users and groups. We also learned how to define fine-grained permissions, and we discussed the benefits of integrating QuickSight with Amazon Lake Formation. Then, we focused on how best to organize QuickSight assets such as analyses, datasets, and dashboards by using folders, and how to share assets using shared folders. Finally, we learned how to configure automated email reports and how to configure threshold-based alerts.

Using the things you learned in this chapter, you will be able to define your permissions and make sure you manage them effectively, making use of groups and folders where possible.

In the next (and final) chapter, we will learn how to configure and architect multi-tenant QuickSight environments.