Authoring Visual Analytics Using Amazon QuickSight

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, andcreating 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 Contents

Module 1: Introduction and Overview of Amazon QuickSight
Module 2: Getting Started with Amazon QuickSight
Module 3: Enhancing and Adding Interactivity to Your Dashboard
Module 4: Preparing Datasets for Analysis
Module 5: Performing Advanced Data Calculations
Activity: Designing a Visual Analytics Solution
Module 6: Overview of Amazon QuickSight Security and Access Control
Module 7: Exploring machine learning capabilities
End of day challenge labs

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, group exercises, and practice and challenge labs.

Target Group

This course is intended for:
• Data and business analysts who build and manage business analytics dashboards

Knowledge Prerequisites

Attendees should have a minimum of one-year experience in business intelligence or a similar function
Completed the following course: Data Analytics Fundamentals

Important: Therefore, please bring your notebook to the course! If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

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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

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

Classroom training: Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
Online training: You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
Tailor-made courses: You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.

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