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 Redash

Key Features

• Learn the best use of visualizations to build powerful interactive dashboards
• Create and share visualizations and data in your organization
• Work with different complexities of data from different data sources

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.

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

Who this book is for

This 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.

Table of 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

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 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.