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    Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
    Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
    Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
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    Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

    By Rajesh Nadipalli

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    About This Book
    • A practical hands-on guide to improving your business with the power of BI and Quicksight
    • Immerse yourself with an end-to-end journey for effective analytics using QuickSight and related services
    • Packed with real-world examples with Solution Architectures needed for a cloud-powered Business Intelligence service
    Who This Book Is For

    This book is for Business Intelligence architects, BI developers, Big Data architects, and IT executives who are looking to modernize their business intelligence architecture and deliver a fast, easy-to-use, cloud powered business intelligence service.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMar 10, 2017
    ISBN9781786465009
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      Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight - Rajesh Nadipalli

      Table of Contents

      Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      Why subscribe?

      Customer Feedback

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. A Quick Start to QuickSight

      Era of big data

      Current BI landscape

      Key features provided by BI tools

      Typical process to build visualizations

      Key issues with traditional BI tools

      Rise of cloud BI services

      Overview of QuickSight

      How is QuickSight different to other BI tools?

      High level BI solution architecture with QuickSight

      Getting started with QuickSight

      Registering for QuickSight

      Signing up to QuickSight with a new AWS account

      Signing up to QuickSight with an existing AWS account

      Building your first analysis under 60 seconds

      Downloading data

      Preparing data

      QuickSight navigation

      Loading data to QuickSight

      Starting your visualizations

      Building multiple visualizations

      Summary

      2. Exploring Any Data

      AWS big data ecosystem

      Collect

      Store

      Analyze

      Orchestrate

      Supported data sources

      Supported data types

      Supported data sizes

      File limits

      Table limits

      Use case review

      Permissions on AWS resources

      Loading text files to QuickSight

      Uploading a data file to S3

      Building the manifest file

      Creating a new QuickSight dataset from S3

      Loading MySQL data to QuickSight using the AWS pipeline

      Pre-requisites

      Uploading data to S3

      Creating and executing the AWS Data Pipeline

      Creating a new QuickSight dataset from MySQL

      Loading Redshift data to QuickSight

      Pre-requisites

      Uploading data to S3

      Creating and executing an AWS Data Pipeline

      Creating a new QuickSight dataset from Redshift

      Loading data from Athena to QuickSight

      Uploading data to S3

      Creating a table in Athena

      Creating a new QuickSight dataset from Athena

      Loading data from Salesforce to QuickSight

      Pre-requisites

      Creating a dataset from Salesforce

      Editing existing datasets

      Summary

      3. SPICE up Your Data

      SPICE - overview and architecture

      Importing data into SPICE

      Joining data in SPICE

      Loading data to Redshift

      Creating a new joined dataset

      Enriching your data

      Arithmetic and comparison operators

      Conditional functions

      ifelse

      coalesce

      isNotNull

      isNull

      nullIf

      Date functions

      epochDate

      formatDate

      now

      dateDiff

      extract and truncDate

      Numeric functions

      ceil

      decimalToInt

      floor

      intToDecimal

      round

      String functions

      concat

      left

      locate

      ltrim

      parseDate

      parseDecimal

      parseInt

      replace

      right

      rtrim

      strlen

      substring

      toLower

      toString

      toUpper

      trim

      Filtering data using SPICE

      Adding new filters

      Filter on medianincome

      Filter on statecode

      Editing existing filters

      Changing existing filter criteria

      Enable, disable, or delete a filter

      Summary

      4. Intuitive Visualizations

      From data to visualization using QuickSight

      Building analyses from datasets

      Creating a new dataset

      Creating a new analysis

      Adding a visual to an analysis

      Renaming and adding descriptions to an existing analysis

      Deleting an existing analysis

      Building effective visuals

      Changing visual type

      Bar charts

      Simple bar charts

      Stacked bar charts

      Line charts

      Simple line chart

      Area line chart

      Pivot tables

      Adding statistical functions

      Scatter plot

      Tree map

      Pie chart

      Heat map

      Autograph

      General options

      Configuring the visual title

      Configuring legends

      Configuring the axis range

      Changing visual colors

      Adding drill down to charts

      Selecting the right visualizations

      Does the business want to compare values?

      Do you need to compare compositions of a measure?

      Do you need to see distributions and relationship between two measures?

      Do you want to see trends with multiple measures?

      Do you want to slice and dice multiple measures over different dimensions?

      Deleting a visual

      Telling a story

      Creating a story

      Playing a Story

      Deleting a Story

      Sharing dashboards

      Deleting a dashboard

      Summary

      5. Secure Your Environment

      Managing users and access

      Adding new users

      Reactivate a user

      View existing User

      Deleting a user

      Enterprise account user management

      Prerequisites

      Adding AD user accounts to QuickSight

      Deactivating AD accounts with QuickSight

      Managing QuickSight permissions on AWS resources

      Authorizing connections from QuickSight to AWS data sources

      Creating a new security group for QuickSight

      Authorizing connections to RDS instances

      Authorizing connections to Redshift cluster

      Authorizing connections to EC2 instance

      Closing a QuickSight account

      Summary

      6. QuickSight Mobile

      Installing QuickSight

      Dashboards on the go

      Dashboard detailed view

      Find your dashboard

      Favorite a dashboard

      Limitations of the mobile app

      Analyses on the go

      View details of your analysis

      Share your analysis

      Stories related to analysis

      Search for analysis

      Favorite your analysis

      Limitations of the mobile app

      Stories on the go

      Story detailed view

      Search your stories

      Favorite a story

      Advanced options for the QuickSight mobile app

      Summary

      7. Big Data Analytics Mini Project

      Overview of AWS Data Lake solution

      Data lake core concept - package

      AWS Data Lake architecture

      Managed data ingestion to AWS Data Lake

      Centralized data storage for AWS Data Lake

      Processing and analyzing data within the AWS Data Lake

      Governing and securing the AWS Data Lake

      A mini project on AWS Data Lake

      Mini use case business context

      Air quality index

      Census population

      Deploying AWS Data Lake using CloudFormation

      Creating a new stack

      Access your data lake stack

      Acquiring the data for the mini project

      Hydrating the data lake

      Air quality index data in S3

      US population data in S3

      Cataloging data assets

      Creating governance tags

      Registering data packages

      EPA AQI data package

      USA population history package

      Searching the data catalog

      Extracting packages using manifest

      Processing data in the AWS Data Lake

      Creating Athena tables

      Analyzing using QuickSight

      Population analysis

      Creating the population dataset

      Insights from population dataset

      Combining population and EPA datasets

      EPA Trend with population impact

      Additional data lake features

      User management for the AWS Data Lake

      Inviting a new user

      Updating an existing user

      General system settings for AWS Data Lake

      Summary

      8. QuickSight Product Shortcomings

      QuickSight product features

      Easy ad hoc analysis and visualizations

      Wide range of data connectivity

      Fast and visual data preparation

      Sharing and collaboration

      Security and access

      Easy operations

      Features lacking in QuickSight

      Lack of integration with the visualization layer

      Only basic visualizations

      Limited mobile and sharing

      Lack of advanced data management

      Advanced data preparation features

      Lack of fine grain access

      General

      Accessing the user guide

      Providing feedback

      Summary

      Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

      Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

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      First published: March 2017

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      Credits

      About the Author

      Rajesh Nadipalli is currently Director, Professional Services and Support at Zaloni, an award-wining provider of enterprise data lake management solutions that enables global clients to innovate and leverage big data for business impact. Rajesh leads Hadoop-based technical proof-of-concepts, strategy, solution architectures, and post-sales product support for his clients. His clientele includes AIG, NBCU, Verizon, Du, American Express, Netapp, Dell-EMC, United Health Group, and Cisco. In his previous role as the director of product management, he was leading the product strategy, roadmap, and feature definitions for Zaloni's Hadoop data management platform.

      Throughout his 20 plus years in IT, Rajesh has had a passion for data and held various roles as big data architect, solutions architect, database administrator (DBA), business intelligence architect, and ETL developer. He believes in using technology as a strategic advantage for his clients by improving productivity, performance, and real-time insight to relevant data.

      Rajesh is also the author of HDInsight Essentials, by Packt publishing, which takes you through the journey of building a modern data lake architecture using HDInsight, a Hadoop-based service that allows you to successfully manage high volume and velocity data in Azure Cloud.

      He is a regular blogger and his articles are published in Zaloni blog, Datafloq, and Dzone sites.

      He holds a MBA from North Carolina State University and a BS in EE from University of Mumbai, India.

      I would like to thank my family and friends for their love, support, and encouragement; and special thanks to my wife, Manasa, and daughter, Geetika, who were always there for support and inspiration.

      About the Reviewer

      Arthur Zubarev is a data platform engineer who specializes in developing fast data pipelines, data acquisition, analysis, validation, performance tuning, data warehousing, and visualizations. His skills and passion include relational and NoSQL database engines, big data, cloud technologies, streaming data, IoT, social web, and general programming.

      Arthur is a data platform MVP for the sixth year, a member of the Data Advisors group for Microsoft, R for Visual Studio beta tester, MCDBA, MCAD, and MCITP. He strives to be an early adopter of new technologies and likes to embrace technical challenges. In addition, he is a frequent presenter and event organizer. 

      I would like to thank my wonderful family for always understanding the importance of my contributions to the technical community, even if that occurred at the expense of our spare time. This has allowed me to effectively deliver as much timely feedback as I could to produce this fantastic book.

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