Get started with Amazon QuickSight - AWS' Business Intelligence (BI) answer to Tableau and Power BI
InstructorManuel LorenzInstruction covers essential workflows including loading data via SPICE versus Direct Query and utilizing AWS S3 for storage.
The curriculum includes various visualization types such as Treemaps, Heat Maps, and Pivot Tables.
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The AWS QuickSight dashboard displays the New Data Set creation screen, presenting a grid of available data source connectors such as Athena, RDS, and Redshift for users to select.
The QuickSight interface displays a line chart visualizing population totals over time, with the X-axis set to year and color mapped to region.
This screenshot shows the AWS QuickSight analysis workspace where a user is configuring a bar chart, specifically interacting with the X-axis field well to select data dimensions.
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Learner signals suggest the AWS QuickSight GUI has changed significantly, making some steps difficult to follow. One signal specifically notes that 'Stories' is no longer an available option.
The curriculum focuses on basics; it lacks coverage of advanced topics like AI integration, complex data modeling, or year-over-year calculations.
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The curriculum aligns well with the target audience of beginners looking to connect QuickSight to AWS services.