Complete Introduction to Amazon QuickSight

Quick and comprehensive way to learn how to use Amazon QuickSight to create dynamic analysis, reports and dashboards

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are. Amazon QuickSight connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources so that you can build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and get business insights from your data. It can scale to hundreds of thousands of users and delivers responsive performance by using a robust in-memory engine (SPICE).

COURSE CONTENT AND OUTCOMES

• Understand the flow of using QuickSight, from loading data, to preparing it for analysis, to aggregations, filters and visualizations and to sharing your report with others

• Learn how to load and prepare data for analysis

• Learn how to calculate different methods of aggregation - Averages, Highest values, Lowest Values and number of Unique Values

• Create KPIs to display key metrics

• Use Table calculations to calculate percentages, running totals, rankings and difference from calculations

• Use filters and controls to filter visualizations and reports with a couple of clicks of the mouse

• Create new calculations and fields of data from QuickSight formulas

• Create powerful trend analysis graphs to help with forecasting

• Learn to gain powerful analysis from a variety of different visualizations and graph types

• Learn to create relationships between tables of data

• Create stories of data and change the themes in used analysis

• Create and share powerful dashboards of data in minutes

ABOUT THE TRAINER

I am a Udemy Instructor Partner with more than 20 years' experience in training & management consulting. I specialise in training business users to learn powerful methods and techniques to transform data into useful information and intelligence as well as learning strong data analysis methodology using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio), Amazon QuickSight and ChatGPT.

WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING

• Excellent course - I started out knowing nothing and now feel confident that I can go into QuickSight and use it quite competently.

• Ian is really clear and has an easy-going way of teaching. His course is really complete and practical on how to use this service and I'd totally recommend that!

• Great course. Instructor took the topics and was able to translate them to be very easily understood. Would highly recommend.

DATA ANALYSIS COURSES ROADMAP

The tech industry is constantly evolving, there have been significant investments in the field of AI, machine learning and big data and this means there is a growing demand for data analysts. With the right skills and a proactive approach, a data analyst can reach unprecedented heights. I currently offer the following 14 courses on Udemy covering a wide variety of tools and skills that will empower you to confidently explore the dynamic realm of data analysis, gain valuable skills in data interpretation and drive intelligent, data driven decisions.

Microsoft Excel

• Introduction to Analyzing Data with Excel Pivot Tables

• Complete Introduction to Excel Power Pivot

• Complete Introduction to Excel Power Query

• Excel Interactive Dashboards and Data Analysis

• Complete Introduction to Business Data Analysis

• Tables and Formulas with Excel

Microsoft Power BI

• Complete Introduction to Microsoft Power BI

• Complete Introduction to Power BI Query Editor

• Power BI Master Class-Data Models and DAX Formulas

• Power BI Master Class - Dashboards and Power BI Service

Google

• Complete Introduction to Google Sheets Pivot Tables

• Complete Introduction to Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio)

Amazon QuickSight

• Complete Introduction to Amazon QuickSight

ChatGPT

• Introduction to Analyzing Data with ChatGPT