Redash v5 Quick Start Guide
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78899-616-7 (ISBN)
Learn how to quickly generate business intelligence, insights and create interactive dashboards for digital storytelling through various data sources with Redash
Key Features
Learn the best use of visualizations to build powerful interactive dashboards
Create and share visualizations and data in your organization
Work with different complexities of data from different data sources
Book DescriptionData exploration and visualization is vital to Business Intelligence, the backbone of almost every enterprise or organization. Redash is a querying and visualization tool developed to simplify how marketing and business development departments are exposed to data. If you want to learn to create interactive dashboards with Redash, explore different visualizations, and share the insights with your peers, then this is the ideal book for you.
The book starts with essential Business Intelligence concepts that are at the heart of data visualizations. You will learn how to find your way round Redash and its rich array of data visualization options for building interactive dashboards. You will learn how to create data storytelling and share these with peers. You will see how to connect to different data sources to process complex data, and then visualize this data to reveal valuable insights.
By the end of this book, you will be confident with the Redash dashboarding tool to provide insight and communicate data storytelling.
What you will learn
Install Redash and troubleshoot installation errors
Manage user roles and permissions
Fetch data from various data sources
Visualize and present data with Redash
Create active alerts based on your data
Understand Redash administration and customization
Export, share and recount stories with Redash visualizations
Interact programmatically with Redash through the Redash API
Who this book is forThis book is intended for Data Analysts, BI professionals and Data Developers, but can be useful to anyone who has a basic knowledge of SQL and a creative mind. Familiarity with basic BI concepts will be helpful, but no knowledge of Redash is required.
Alexander Leibzon is a software infrastructure consultant and backend software developer with over 15 years' experience in the software development industry. Alexander is a contributor to Redash and several other open source projects. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Alexander was a data infrastructure engineer at EverythingMe, the company where Redash was initially developed during a hackathon. Alexander holds a BSc degree in physics and computer science. Yael Leibzon is a data analyst with 8 years' experience in the industry. Yael has been an extensive user of Redash for over 3 years. Yael holds an MSc in biomedical engineering. During Yael's academic research , Yael developed finite element computational models, which were published in biomedical literature.
Table of Contents
Introducing Redash
Installing Redash
Creating and Visualizing your First Query
Connecting to Data Sources
Writing and Executing Queries
Creating Visualizations
Dashboards and Practical Tips
Customizing Redash
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 75 x 93 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken |
| Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78899-616-X / 178899616X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78899-616-7 / 9781788996167 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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