Amazon (AWS) QuickSight – Getting Started

Working with modern Business Intelligence tools is exciting. Although the market offers a broad variety of tools, you may not have found the tool that meets all your requirements yet. This course might change that

In this course, you will learn how to use one of the latest Business Intelligence tools released to the market: Amazon QuickSight, a tool which allows you to easily analyze and visualize data. But what makes QuickSight special? QuickSight is a cloud solution and completely integrated into Amazon Web Services (AWS). With that, it can be easily connected to a broad variety of services and sources which make QuickSight a highly scalable, easy-to-use and very flexible data analysis tool.

This course will give you a first overview of QuickSight including the following topics:
How to use QuickSight and its different functions
Understand the workflow of QuickSight
How to connect QuickSight to different data sources within and outside of AWS
How to prepare your data in QuickSight, for example by adding filters and calculated fields
How to easily create your analysis by building multiple visuals
How to create dashboards and stories
Share your project results with people within and outside your organization
How to use the iOS mobile app
Understand the user management of QuickSight

Who this course is for:
People who never heard of or worked with QuickSight and who want to get started with the tool
Anybody who is interested into analyzing and visualizing data with modern Business Intelligence tools
People who want to learn how to connect QuickSight to different services within the AWS universe

Requirements
For this course, a credit card is required to create an AWS account
A basic understanding of data analysis is a plus but not required

Last updated 12/2018