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Redash v5 Quick Start Guide: Create and share interactive dashboards using Redash
Authors: Alexander Leibzon - Yael Leibzon
ISBN-10 书号: 178899616X
ISBN-13 书号: 9781788996167
Publisher Finelybook 出版日期: 2018-09-29
pages 页数: 224 pages
Book Description
Data 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.
Contents
1: INTRODUCING REDASH
2: INSTALLING REDASH
3: CREATING AND VISUALIZING YOUR FIRST QUERY
4: CONNECTING TO DATA SOURCES
5: WRITING AND EXECUTING QUERIES
6: CREATING VISUALIZATIONS
7: DASHBOARDS AND PRACTICAL TIPS
8: CUSTOMIZING REDASH
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
Authors
Alexander Leibzon
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
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.
