Authoring Visual Analytics Using Amazon QuickSight

Course Summary:

In this course, you will build a data visualization solution using Amazon QuickSight. QuickSight allows everyone in your organization to understand your data by exploring through interactive dashboards, asking questions in natural language, or automatically looking for patterns and outliers powered by machine learning. This course focuses on connecting to data sources, building visuals, designing interactivity, and creating calculations. You will learn how to apply security best practices to your analyses. You will also explore the machine learning capabilities built into QuickSight.

Course Duration: 2 Days

Course Content:

Module 1: Introduction and Overview of Amazon QuickSight

Introducing Amazon QuickSight
Why use Amazon QuickSight for data visualization

Module 2: Getting Started with Amazon QuickSight

Interacting with Amazon QuickSight
Loading data into Amazon QuickSight
Visualizing data in Amazon QuickSight
Demonstration: Walkthrough of Amazon QuickSight interface
Practice Lab: Create your first dashboard

Module 3: Enhancing and Adding Interactivity to Your Dashboard

Enhancing your dashboard
Demonstration: Optimize the size, layout, and aesthetics of a dashboard
Enhancing visualizations with interactivity
Demonstration: Walkthrough of dashboard interactivity features
Practice Lab: Enhancing your dashboard

Module 4: Preparing Datasets for Analysis

Working with datasets
Demonstration: Transform your datasets for analysis
Practice Lab: Preparing data for analysis

Module 5: Performing Advanced Data Calculations

Transform data using advanced calculations
Practice Lab: Performing advanced data calculations
Activity: Designing a Visual Analytics Solution

Day 2

Module 6: Overview of Amazon QuickSight Security and Access Control

Overview of Amazon QuickSight security and access control
Dataset access control in Amazon QuickSight
Lab: Implementing access control in Amazon QuickSight visualizations

Module 7: Exploring machine learning capabilities

Introducing Machine Learning (ML) insights
Natural Language Query with QuickSight Q
Demonstration: Using QuickSight Q
Lab: Using machine learning for anomaly detection and forecasting

End of day challenge labs

Join data sources together
Create a dashboard
Enhance the dashboard and add interactivity
Perform advanced data calculations
Integrate machine learning tools into the dashboard