Exploring the Latest Enhancements in Data Visualization with Amazon QuickSight: A 2023 Overview
Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that enables users to connect to their data and create interactive dashboards for sharing with thousands of users. These dashboards can be utilized within QuickSight or embedded in various software as a service (SaaS) applications. As we say goodbye to 2023, we reflect on the exciting developments in data visualization through QuickSight.
Harnessing the Synergy of Google Cloud BigQuery and Amazon QuickSight for Unified Business Intelligence
By Jamie Lin and Chris Patel
Published on 20 NOV 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Intermediate (200), Technical How-to
Amazon QuickSight serves as a cloud-native, serverless BI service that allows the creation of visualizations, conducts ad hoc analyses, and extracts insights through machine learning (ML) features like anomaly detection, forecasting, and natural language querying. QuickSight leverages its powerful in-memory engine, SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine), to quickly execute advanced calculations and deliver visuals. BigQuery, on the other hand, is Google Cloud’s fully managed analytics data warehouse that can handle vast amounts of data in near-real time. In this article, we guide you through the necessary permissions and connection details to integrate BigQuery data into QuickSight via OAuth, along with creating a basic dashboard. For more insights, check out this related blog post.
Enhancing Pivot Table Space Efficiency with New Features in Amazon QuickSight
By Taylor Smith, Sam Lee, and Emma White
Published on 16 OCT 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Business Intelligence, Intermediate (200)
We have recently rolled out several new features for Tables and Pivot Tables in QuickSight, focusing on interactivity and performance. These enhancements allow you to manage field visibility, speed up table loading, and maintain consistency across various interactions. Building on this progress, we are thrilled to introduce two new features aimed at improving readability and optimizing space utilization.
Creating Embedded Analytics Frameworks with Amazon QuickSight
By Jordan Kim, Morgan Reed, and Alex Parker
Published on 05 OCT 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Business Intelligence, Embedded Analytics, Intermediate (200), Technical How-to, Thought Leadership
This article assists cloud architects, engineers, and developers in constructing embedded analytics architectures on the AWS Cloud using specialized data analytics services and Amazon QuickSight. We present various architectural models for developing customized dashboards tailored to user roles or job functions. Additionally, we discuss best practices and key factors that emphasize the strength of embedded analytics and provide further resources for initiating embedded analytics on AWS.
Visualizing Hierarchical Data with the New Hierarchy Layout in Amazon QuickSight
By Jamie Lin and Tom Reed
Published on 11 AUG 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Business Intelligence, Intermediate (200)
Are you struggling with horizontal scrolling in pivot tables to display all your row fields? If your data includes hierarchical structures, like cost centers or product categories, we have great news! Amazon QuickSight now features a new layout option called hierarchy layout for pivot tables, enhancing usability and clarity.
Introducing a Field-Based Coloring Experience in Amazon QuickSight
By Alex Morgan
Published on 18 JUL 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Intermediate (200)
Color significantly impacts visualizations by conveying meaning, drawing attention, and improving aesthetics. Key insights and data points can be easily identified when highlighted with color. However, it’s essential to apply color thoughtfully to boost readability and ensure accurate interpretation. Accessible and consistent color use is crucial for user comprehension.
Enhancing Your React Application with Amazon QuickSight: Embedding Dashboards for Anonymous Access
By Jamie Lin
Published on 11 JUL 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Business Intelligence, Embedded Analytics, Front-End Web & Mobile, Intermediate (200), Technical How-to
Utilizing embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight simplifies the addition of functional visualizations to your application without extensive development efforts. There are several methods to embed QuickSight dashboards into applications. In this article, we focus on embedding using React and the Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK. Dashboard users typically don’t have the technical background needed…
Optimizing Queries with Dataset Parameters in Amazon QuickSight
By Anwar Ali, Gil Raviv, and Salim Khan
Published on 19 JUN 2023
In Amazon QuickSight, Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Embedded Analytics, Intermediate (200), Pixel-perfect reports
Amazon QuickSight empowers data-driven organizations with unified BI at scale. All users can meet diverse analytical requirements using a single source of truth through interactive dashboards, pixel-perfect reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. We have introduced dataset parameters, a new type of parameter in QuickSight that can help optimize your analytics experience. For more information, visit this excellent resource.
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