Introduction

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are. QuickSight connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources. In a single data dashboard, QuickSight can include AWS data, third-party data, big data, spreadsheet data, SaaS data, B2B data, and more.

Key Features

  • SPICE: The Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine. SPICE is engineered to rapidly perform advanced calculations and serve data.
  • Auto-Graph: Automatically selects the best visualization for your data.
  • ML Insights: Leverages machine learning to uncover hidden trends and outliers.
  • Embedded Analytics: Embed dashboards into your applications.

Workshop Scenario

In this workshop, you will act as a Data Analyst for a retail company. You have been given a dataset of sales records and tasked with creating a dashboard to visualize sales performance by region, date, and product category.