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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

Customizing the look and feel of the application

In this section, we will focus on the look and feel of the application. There are different reasons why we might need to change the default look and feel of the application. For example, an organization might need to use colors that match its branding. In this section, we will learn how to do the following:

  • Apply themes
  • Format individual visuals

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Applying themes

Themes in QuickSight are a collection of look-and-feel settings that can be applied to multiple analyses and dashboards. To access the Themes menu, we will need to have an analysis open:

  1. First, log in as an author user and open an analysis. Here, we will use the New York Taxi analysis that we have developed in this chapter.
  2. Notice that on the left-hand side menu, the Themes option is present. Click on the Themes menu, as follows:

Figure 4.19 – Themes

  1. Notice that there are prebuilt...