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Bhupinder Chadha

Author: Bhupinder Chadha

Elevate your dashboards with font customization in Amazon QuickSight

We’re excited to introduce font customization in QuickSight, a feature that significantly enhances dashboard clarity, engagement, and accessibility. With this new capability, authors gain precise control over typography for each specific visual property. You can set font sizes in pixels, choose colors and font families, and apply styles such as bold, italic, and underline.

Create custom shape maps in Amazon QuickSight

In this post, we explain the QuickSight vision for layered maps, explore practical examples of single-layer maps using NYC boroughs and ZIP3 regions, and provide a step-by-step guide to help you create your own custom shape layers. With this new feature, you can now visualize data using specialized geographic boundaries that match your specific business needs, whether you’re analyzing sales territories, demographic patterns, or service delivery areas.

New image component in Amazon QuickSight

We are excited to announce the addition of the new image component to QuickSight, allowing authors to upload images directly from your desktops, providing greater flexibility to incorporate static images into your QuickSight dashboards, analysis, reports, and stories. This is in addition to the current capability of adding images to text boxes, insights, and custom visual content, requiring a source URL.

What’s new with data visualization in Amazon QuickSight – 2023 in review

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to connect to your data and […]

Improve pivot table space utilization using the hide collapsed columns and default column width features in Amazon QuickSight

Recently, we launched a range of new features for Tables and Pivot Tables in QuickSight centered around interactivity and performance, allowing you to alter field visibility, load tables faster, and build consistency across different interactions. Building on this momentum, we are excited to unveil two additional capabilities, this time with a focus on improving readability, presentation, and space optimization.

Enhanced table navigation: Freeze/unfreeze Table Columns in Amazon QuickSight

We are excited to introduce the latest feature in Amazon QuickSight that gives authors and readers the ability to freeze columns within tables. This new functionality brings a whole new level of control and convenience for analyzing data in tables. Now, with just a few clicks, you can lock specific columns in place, ensuring that essential information remains visible while scrolling horizontally across wide tables. No more losing sight of critical data points or headers as you explore your tables. This enhancement to the already robust suite of tools in QuickSight aligns with our commitment to delivering a more intuitive and responsive user experience. In this post, we demonstrate how to freeze columns for enhanced table navigation in QuickSight.

Visualize hierarchical data using the hierarchy layout for pivot tables in Amazon QuickSight

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » Are you finding it cumbersome to scroll horizontally in pivot tables to see all your row fields? Are you dealing with […]

Introducing field-based coloring experience for Amazon QuickSight

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » Color plays a crucial role in visualizations. It conveys meaning, captures attention, and enhances aesthetics. You can quickly grasp important information […]

Improve table readability and identify outliers with data bars in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) solution that makes it simple to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, get access to ML-enabled insights, enable natural language querying of your data, and share visuals and dashboards with tens of thousands of internal and external users, either within QuickSight itself […]

New scatter plot options in Amazon QuickSight to visualize your data

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » Are you looking to understand the relationships between two numerical variables? Scatter plots are a powerful visual type that allow you […]