Redash v5 Quick Start Guide

Learn how to quickly generate business intelligence, insights and create interactive dashboards for digital storytelling through various data sources with RedashKey FeaturesLearn the best use of visualizations to build powerful interactive dashboardsCreate and share visualizations and data in your organizationWork with different complexities of data from different data sourcesBook 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 learnInstall Redash and troubleshoot installation errorsManage user roles and permissionsFetch data from various data sourcesVisualize and present data with RedashCreate active alerts based on your dataUnderstand Redash administration and customizationExport, share and recount stories with Redash visualizationsInteract programmatically with Redash through the Redash APIWho 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.