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Redash v5 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Redash v5 Quick Start Guide Create and share interactive dashboards using Redash

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996167
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Leibzon Alexander Leibzon
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Tips and tricks

When you want to quickly test whether a certain visualization is suitable for your needs, but you don't have the time to create the long and complex query that will provide you the necessary results in the format the visualization expects, you can simply mock the result set and do your quick and dirty test.

Here is an example, Suppose I want to test the funnel visualization. I know that the funnel expects a column for the Funnel Steps and another column for the Funnel Step Value. I select the internal Redash data source, called Redash metadata (no worries, we don't need anything from the data in the data source itself), and execute the following query:

SELECT 'Bought Stop Watch' AS fun_step,
10000 AS
VALUES
UNION
(SELECT 'Bought Running Shoes' AS fun_step,
8000 AS
VALUES)
UNION
(SELECT 'Bought Running Shorts&apos...
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