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Kyle Smith
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Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.
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Okay, so now we get to play around with some visualizations. Let's create a dashboard with some visualizations of our https://meh.com/ data. For now, we will limit ourselves to the native visualizations. We will start with the meh_products lookup that we have generated. Each product is listed as either New or Refurbished, so let's see how that makes a chart:

| inputlookup meh_produts | top product_condition

This will be our basic search that pulls the meh_products lookup, which is kept populated by the saved search we had written earlier. We are only interested in knowing the distribution of product conditions over the entire time range, so we will chose a pie chart from the dropdown. This gives us a pie chart like this one:

As you can see, at the time of writing this book, and with the amount of data collected, the top condition at 90.909% is New. Now, let's save this as a panel in a new dashboard. We will call the dashboard Overview. We do this by clicking on the Save...

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Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.
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