Description
Course Content
Day 1
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
Who should attend
Data and business analysts who build and manage business analytics dashboards.
Prerequisites
- Attendees should have a minimum of one-year experience in business intelligence or a similar function
- Completed the following course: Data Analytics Fundamentals
Course Objectives
- Explain the benefits, use cases, and key features of Amazon QuickSight
- Design, create, and customize QuickSight dashboards to visualize and extract business insights from your data
- Select and configure appropriate visualization types to identify, explore, and drill down on business insights
- Describe how to use one-click embed to incorporate visual analytics into applications
- Connect, transform, and prepare data for dashboarding consumption
- Perform advanced data calculations on QuickSight analyses
- Describe the security mechanisms available for Amazon QuickSight
- Apply fine-grained access control to a dataset
- Implement machine learning on data sets for anomaly detection and forecasting
- Explain the benefits and key features of QuickSight Q to enhance the dashboard user experience
