Creating and publishing dashboards

Simply put, a dashboard is a presentation of various visualizations that provide context to your data and gives the observer of the dashboard actionable insights. For example, an operations team will look at the route-revenue visualization to decide the localities in which to place the taxis for maximum revenue.

We will learn about the various dashboarding features by bringing the queries and visualizations we have built in the preceding sections together.

Composing a dashboard

To create a new dashboard, simply open the Dashboards page and click Create Dashboard. Continuing with our working example, I am creating a new dashboard called New York Taxi Operational Dashboard.

The following screenshot shows the blank dashboard. We must associate a SQL Warehouse with the dashboard:

Figure 5.38 – Building a dashboard

A dashboard can have as many visualizations as you need. Click on the Add Visualization button...