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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

Editing datasets

In this section, we will look more closely at the typical tasks an author user needs to do to edit a dataset. In real-world applications, it is common that datasets might need some degree of processing so that they can be used optimally by QuickSight.

These tasks include the following:

  • Importing into SPICE
  • Renaming fields
  • Changing the field types
  • Adding calculated fields
  • Combining datasets together
  • Applying security filters

In the next section, we will learn how to complete these tasks using the example dataset we configured earlier.

Importing into SPICE

It's time for us to learn how to import a dataset into SPICE. We will change the query mode using the dataset editor and then we will observe the status of the import job. Finally, we will learn how to schedule automatic refresh jobs for our SPICE datasets.

Setting the dataset query mode

Earlier in this chapter, we configured a Redshift dataset as a Direct Query...

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