You're reading from Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you get the most out of Office 365 and SharePoint Online

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838646677

Length 810 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Office 365

Concepts

Project Management

Authors (2):

Gaurav Mahajan

Sudeep Ghatak

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Data Engineering FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Data Management Architectures for Analytics

4. Chapter 3: The AWS Data Engineer's Toolkit

5. Chapter 4: Data Cataloging, Security, and Governance

6. Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Lakes and Data Lake Houses

7. Chapter 5: Architecting Data Engineering Pipelines

8. Chapter 6: Ingesting Batch and Streaming Data

9. Chapter 7: Transforming Data to Optimize for Analytics

10. Chapter 8: Identifying and Enabling Data Consumers

11. Chapter 9: Loading Data into a Data Mart

12. Chapter 10: Orchestrating the Data Pipeline

13. Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

14. Chapter 11: Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena

15. Chapter 12: Visualizing Data with Amazon QuickSight

16. Chapter 13: Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up the First Part of Your Learning Journey

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Hands-on – creating a simple QuickSight visualization

Earlier in this chapter, we discussed how data can be represented over a geographic area. We used the example of data containing information on the population of world cities, and how we could use that to easily visualize how large cities are geographically distributed. The example visual in Figure 12.2 showed cities with a population of over 3 million people, displayed on top of a map of the world.

For the hands-on section of this chapter, we are going to recreate that visual using Amazon QuickSight.

Setting up a new QuickSight account and loading a dataset

Before we start creating a new dashboard, we need to download a sample dataset of world city populations. We are going to use the basic dataset available from https://simplemaps.com/, which is freely distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):