Amazon QuickSight - Getting Started

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Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to create and publish interactive dashboards. You can access these from browsers or mobile devices. As a fully managed cloud-based service, QuickSight combines data from many different sources and provides user management tools that you can use to scale from a few users to millions.

In this course, you will learn about the benefits and technical concepts of QuickSight. You will learn about the architecture and built-in features. You will have an opportunity to try key features through demonstrations.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes demonstrations, videos, and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

• Understand how QuickSight works.
• Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of QuickSight.
• List typical use cases for QuickSight.
• Recognize the benefits of QuickSight.
• Explain the cost structure of QuickSight.
• Design, create, and customize QuickSight dashboards to visualize data and extract business insights.

Intended audience

This course is intended for the following:

• BI developers
• Business analysts
• Data analysts
• BI managers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees have a basic understanding of BI and visual analytics concepts.

Course outline

• Module 1: Introduction to QuickSight
• Module 2: Architecture and Use Cases
• Module 3: How Do I Create a QuickSight Dataset?
• Module 4: How Do I Create a QuickSight Analysis?
• Module 5: How Do I Customize QuickSight Using Themes?
• Module 6: How Do I Publish a QuickSight Dashboard?
• Module 7: How Do I Use QuickSight Q to Ask Natural Language Questions?