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Published inFeb 2024
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Krishna Shah
Krishna Shah
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Krishna Shah

Krishna Shah is a data architect from Melbourne, Australia with 9+ years of experience, and she knows how to make data work. She's been an official trainer for Elasticsearch and Kibana, crafting the courses that empower people to unlock the secrets of data. Prior to that, she worked for a start-up in India as the data engineer behind building and maintaining data engineering pipelines, then transforming that raw information into stunning visuals and insights using Kibana and other data engineering technologies. Today, she's an advocate, a mentor, and a bridge-builder, inviting everyone to find their own rhythm in the data's dance. Whether you're a novice or seasoned analyst, brace yourself for her infectious enthusiasm and knack for making the driest of datasets sing!
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Understanding Canvas, Maps, and Markdown visualizations

We have seen visualizations where we had a definitive purpose in mind with respect to what we’d like to do with the analysis. However, when we have intricately custom use cases such as adding our own images to highlight our company/customer information, we would need to create a Canvas visualization. A Canvas visualization is very similar to a literal white canvas that makes you, the artist, create/draw/add anything you like and make it interesting to present.

If you need to look at data points coming from different parts of the world, then we might need a map, which lets us create a visualization on a world map to display data in the form of different symbols. To add anything to the dashboard that is related to text, Markdown is a great visualization to start with. Let’s start looking at each one of them step by step.

Building Canvas visualizations

Canvas is a powerful tool for visualizing and presenting...

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Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803232164

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Krishna Shah

Krishna Shah is a data architect from Melbourne, Australia with 9+ years of experience, and she knows how to make data work. She's been an official trainer for Elasticsearch and Kibana, crafting the courses that empower people to unlock the secrets of data. Prior to that, she worked for a start-up in India as the data engineer behind building and maintaining data engineering pipelines, then transforming that raw information into stunning visuals and insights using Kibana and other data engineering technologies. Today, she's an advocate, a mentor, and a bridge-builder, inviting everyone to find their own rhythm in the data's dance. Whether you're a novice or seasoned analyst, brace yourself for her infectious enthusiasm and knack for making the driest of datasets sing!
Read more about Krishna Shah