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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

Working with QuickSight visuals

Visuals are defined as the on-screen widgets that you can add to your QuickSight analysis to visualize your data. Selecting the right visual type is important for the success of your BI application. In this section, we will learn about the supported visual types and how to select the most appropriate visual type for different scenarios.

Creating an analysis

Before we look at the available visual types, we need to create our first analysis. QuickSight analysis is the main user interface for developing your BI applications. While working on an analysis, you will be able to add data visualization widgets, configure ML capabilities, and configure the look and feel of your BI application.

To create an analysis, perform the following steps:

  1. First, log into QuickSight as an author user.
  2. Next, select Analyses from the left-hand side menu and select New analysis, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 ...