Starting an analysis in Quick Sight - Amazon Quick Suite

Starting an analysis in Quick Sight

In Quick Sight, you analyze and visualize your data in analyses. When you're finished, you can publish your analysis as a dashboard to share with others in your organization.

Use the following procedure to create a new analysis.

To create a new analysis

  1. On the Amazon Quick Suite start page, choose Analyses, and then choose New analysis.

  2. Choose the dataset that you want to include in your new analysis, and then choose USE IN ANALYSIS in the top right.

  3. In the New sheet pop-up that appears, choose the sheet type that you want. You can choose between an Interactive sheet and a Pixel perfect report. To create a pixel perfect report, you need the pixel perfect reports add-on for your account. For more information about pixel perfect reports, see Working with pixel perfect reports in Amazon Quick Sight. For more information on sheets, see Adding and managing sheets.

  4. (Optional) If you choose Interactive sheet, follow these steps:

    • (Optional): Choose the type layout that you want for your interactive sheet. You can choose one of the following options:

      • Free-form

      • Tiled

      The default option is Free-form.

      For more information about interactive sheet layouts, see Types of layout.

    • Choose the canvas size that you want your sheet optimized for. You can choose one of the following options:

      • 1024px

      • 1280px

      • 1366px

      • 1600px

      • 1920px

      For more information on formatting interactive sheets, see Working with interactive sheets in Amazon Quick Sight.

  5. (Optional) If you choose Pixel perfect report, follow these steps:

    • (Optional) Choose the paper size that you want for your paginated report. You can choose from the following options:

      • US letter (8.5 x 11 in.)

      • US legal (8.5 x 14 in.)

      • A0 (841 x 1189 mm)

      • A1 (594 x 841 mm)

      • A2 (420 x 594 mm)

      • A3 (297 x 420 mm)

      • A4 (210 x 297 mm)

      • A5 (148 x 210 mm)

      • Japan B4 (257 x 364 mm)

      • Japan B5 (182 x 257 mm)

      The default paper size is US letter (8.5 x 11 in.)

    • (Optional) Choose the orientation of the sheet. You can choose between Portrait or Landscape. The default option is portrait.

      Before you can create Amazon Quick Sight pixel perfect reports, first get the pixel perfect reporting add-on for your Quick Suite account. For more information on getting the pixel perfect reporting add-on, see Get the Quick Suite pixel perfect reports add-on.

      For more information on formatting pixel perfect reports, see Working with pixel perfect reports in Amazon Quick Sight.

  6. Choose Add.

  7. Create a visual. For more information about creating visuals, see Adding visuals to Quick Sight analyses.

After you are done creating the analysis, you can iterate on it by modifying the visual, adding more visuals, adding scenes to the default story, or adding more stories.