In the vast landscape of data analytics, having the right tools to harness the power of your data is crucial. AWS QuickSight, a cloud-powered business intelligence service, stands out as a game-changer, enabling organizations to visualize and analyze their data effortlessly. In this first blog post as part of a four AWS QuickSight blog series, Ill guide you through the crucial steps, unlocking the power of AWS QuickSight to transform your data into valuable insights.
Before we embark on the journey of creating datasets, let’s grasp the concept of datasets in AWS QuickSight. Datasets serve as the foundation for analysis, representing the structured and organized form of your raw data. QuickSight supports a variety of data sources, including Amazon S3, RDS, Redshift, and more, providing flexibility in integrating your data into the platform. In order to create a Dataset in AWS Quicksight, follow the below steps.
- Login to AWS QuickSight.
- Click on ‘Datasets’.
- Click on ‘New dataset’.
- Scroll down until you see ‘FROM EXISTING DATA SOURCES’.
- This displays all the ‘Data Sources’ you can access and have the ability to create custom ‘Datasets’.
- Next, once you identify the Data Source you want to create a ‘Dataset’ from, click that Data Source.
- Next, click ‘Create dataset’.
- Here, you can ‘Choose your table’ or ‘Use custom SQL’.
- Next, you can choose to switch to ‘Use custom SQL’ or if you want to continue with the QuickSight Visual insight drag and drop capability select ‘Edit/Preview data’.
- Clicking on ‘Edit/Preview data’ will take you to a new window where you can Edit and Preview the data to make it customized. We will go over ‘Edit/Preview data’ in second blog as part of a four AWS QuickSight blog series.
- Once a table is selected, click on ‘Select’.
- Ensure that the Dataset name is configured.
- The ‘Dataset name’ will be displayed on the Top Left side.
- Once all the changes are done and you added all the Table(s) needed, click ‘SAVE & PUBLISH’.
- This will create this dataset and you will be able to share, visualize and edit it from your ‘Datasets’ folder in QuickSight.
- You can click ‘Cancel’ to get out of this window or click ‘PUBLISH & VISUALIZE’ to take you to create an ‘Analyses’ report.
Creating datasets in AWS QuickSight is a pivotal first step toward unlocking the true potential of your data. By seamlessly connecting to diverse data sources, providing robust data preparation tools, and enabling intuitive schema design, QuickSight empowers users to transform raw data into actionable insights.
To everyone who has followed along, a big thank you for investing your time. If you’re eager to dive deeper into AWS QuickSight, the next topic on the agenda is exploring the intricacies of editing, previewing, and data transformations. Click here to access all AWS blogs. Once again, thank you all, and I wish you a fantastic day!
Admira Meskic
Sr. Data Engineer, Patriot Consulting
Email: ameskic@patriotconsultingcorp.com | Blogs: Patriot Consulting Blogs
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