Introducing Amazon QuickSight and its concepts
Amazon QuickSight is a Business Intelligence (BI) service that helps you to generate interactive dashboards with visuals/charts from a wide variety of data sources, such as the cloud, on-premises, and third-party services. In addition, Amazon QuickSight provides advanced features such as embedded analytics and an AI-enabled search bar.
Why do we need a data visualization tool?
As mentioned previously, a picture is worth a thousand words. Users can understand patterns in data using visuals and charts more easily than tabular data. Also, when data insights are identified, they can be shared with business and executive teams through dashboards to convey the message more effectively.
How does QuickSight work?
QuickSight loads data from supported data sources and users can prepare data within QuickSight to suit their visualization requirements. The data is retrieved locally from the Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine...