This article will introduce you to Peak Dashboards and show how they can be used.

Contents

Apache Superset

Peak’s dashboarding capability utilizes Apache Superset, an open source business intelligence web application. Superset is fast, lightweight, and intuitive to make it easy for users of all skill sets to explore and visualize data, from simple pie charts to highly detailed geospatial charts.

Dashboard components

Dashboards are formed of two components: datasets and charts.

Datasets
A dataset is an abstraction that points to data in a database. Each chart is built from a dataset. There are two types of dataset: physical and virtual. A physical dataset points to a table in a database, and a virtual dataset is a view of data that is created using Peak’s collaborative IDE, SQL Explorer.
Charts
A wide variety of charts including tables, line charts, pie charts, pivot tables and sankey diagrams are all available. The chart building process is built on the concept of no-code data exploration. The intuitive drag and drop environment facilitates unique combinations of metrics and columns to create complex and visually-stunning charts.

Dashboards are your opportunity to tell a story with data via a collection of charts. After creating a chart, you can immediately save your visualization to an existing dashboard or create a new one. Like the chart creation environment, dashboard creation uses drag and drop technology to facilitate the customization of your data story. The type of information you convey in a dashboard can be fine-tuned for different audiences using powerful native filtering.