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Business Intelligence with Databricks SQL

You're reading from   Business Intelligence with Databricks SQL Concepts, tools, and techniques for scaling business intelligence on the data lakehouse

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235332
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Databricks SQL on the Lakehouse
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Databricks FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Databricks Product Suite – A Visual Tour 4. Chapter 3: The Data Catalog 5. Chapter 4: The Security Model 6. Chapter 5: The Workbench 7. Chapter 6: The SQL Warehouses 8. Chapter 7: Using Business Intelligence Tools with Databricks SQL 9. Part 2: Internals of Databricks SQL
10. Chapter 8: The Delta Lake 11. Chapter 9: The Photon Engine 12. Chapter 10: Warehouse on the Lakehouse 13. Part 3: Databricks SQL Commands
14. Chapter 11: SQL Commands – Part 1 15. Chapter 12: SQL Commands – Part 2 16. Part 4: TPC-DS, Experiments, and Frequently Asked Questions
17. Chapter 13: Playing with the TPC-DS Dataset 18. Chapter 14: Ask Me Anything 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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