Using QuickSight with Athena

AWS QuickSight is a data analysis and visualization tool that offers out-of-the-box integrations with popular AWS analytics tools and databases such as Athena, Redshift, MySQL, and others. QuickSight has its own analytics engine called Spice. Spice is capable of low-latency aggregations, searches, and other common analytics operations. When combined with a large-scale analytics engine such as Athena, QuickSight can be used for a combination of data exploration, reporting, and dashboarding tasks. This section will briefly introduce you to QuickSight and use it to visualize both our earthquake and Yellow Taxi ride datasets. Since QuickSight itself is a WYSIWYG (What Ya See Is What Ya Get) authoring experience with lots of built-in guidance, we won't spend much time walking you through each step in this section. Instead, we will focus on the broad strokes and let you explore QuickSight yourself. Regardless of this simplification, our QuickSight exercise...