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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

You're reading from   Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight Develop stunning data visualizations and machine learning-driven insights with Amazon QuickSight

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079297
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight and the AWS Analytics Ecosystem
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the AWS Analytics Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight 4. Chapter 3: Preparing Data with Amazon QuickSight 5. Chapter 4: Developing Visuals and Dashboards 6. Section 2: Advanced Dashboarding and Insights
7. Chapter 5: Building Interactive Dashboards 8. Chapter 6: Working with ML Capabilities and Insights 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Embedded Analytics 10. Section 3: Advanced Topics and Management
11. Chapter 8: Understanding the QuickSight API 12. Chapter 9: Managing QuickSight Permissions and Usage 13. Chapter 10: Multitenancy in Amazon QuickSight 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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:

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