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Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
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Kyle Smith

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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In this chapter, we covered some basic aspects of dashboards and view creation. Making sure you know your data is paramount for successful execution in data visualization. Splunk helps you discover your data, but you need to understand your data to display it properly. Not all data types and results fit into all chart types.

We also covered creating a SimpleXML dashboard, and then converting that dashboard into a form. SimpleXML dashboards give you ease of creation and allow you to manipulate them within the web interface. This is an excellent option for quick displays of data, without diving too deep into the code. We also briefly introduced HTML dashboards. There are several advantages of HTML dashboards, especially the added benefits of using the entire HTML, CSS and JavaScript stacks.

In our next chapter, we will start the joys of HTML dashboarding, and see how to use the SplunkJS stack effectively.

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Kyle Smith

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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