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Amazon Quicksight#

  • User needs: Data visualization
  • User profiles: Business Users, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers
  • User assumed knowledge: /

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. As a fully managed service, QuickSight lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards that include ML Insights. Dashboards can then be accessed from any device, and embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.

In order to access QuickSight you will need the following details: - Azure AD user credentials

Accessing Amazon QuickSight#

  • Go to https://eu-west-1.quicksight.aws.amazon.com/ If you are already using an AWS account, please visit this URL via an incognito browser or sign out of AWS or clear your cookies.
  • Enter “ecdataplatform-quicksight” as QuickSight account name.

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  • Enter your EC Data Platform username and password without the domain (@ec-dataplatform.eu)

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Creating a new analysis#

  • Log into QuickSight
  • Click on “New analysis”. You will see all data sets that you own or are made available to you by the administrators. You can start analyzing this data by clicking on a dataset and by then clicking on “New analysis”.

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Creating a new dataset#

Administrators can give you access to “data sources” and/or “ data sets”. Data sources represent databases and storages as a whole, while a “data set” represents a subsample or view of a data source. Depending on what permissions an administrator has given you, you can create new datasets from existing data sources.

  • Log into QuickSight
  • Click on “New Data Set”

  • You will see two lists, “From New Data Sources” and “From Existing Data Sources”. “From New Data Sources” is only supported for “Upload a file”. Creation of all other new Data Sources can only be done by ECDataPlatform administrators

  • You can create new datasets from all existing data sources. For example, if a MySQL database data source was configured for you, you can create new data sets of different tables in this MySQL database.

  • Click on one of your existing data sources to create a new data set.

Sharing an analysis#

You can share analysis on data sets with other users or groups in EC DataPlatform. - Log into QuickSight - Open an analysis you want to share

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  • Click “Share” -> “Share analysis” in the upper right corner.

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  • Enter a user or group to share your analysis with, click “Share”.

Sharing a dashboard#

You can publish and share dashboards of an analysis with other users or groups in EC DataPlatform.

  • Log into QuickSight
  • Open an analysis you want to publish and share.
  • Click “Share” -> “Publish dashboard” in the upper right corner.

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  • Select users you want to share your dashboard with in EC DataPlatform

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  • Click “Share”.