Redash Quick v5 Start Guide

This is the code repository for Redash Quick v5 Start Guide, published by Packt.

Create and share interactive dashboards using Redash

What is this book about?

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.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• 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

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

root@ip-10-69-10-45:/home/bitnami
root@ip-10-69-10-45:/home/bitnami
telnet 54.156.58.190 5432
Trying 54.156.58.190...
Connected to 54.156.58.190.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet>   

Following is what you need for this book: 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.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-8).

Software and Hardware List

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Get to Know the Author(s)

Alexander Leibzon 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 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.

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