A BOOK BY ANITA LIPSKY
Fantastic Elastic
My Journey to Visualise Eurovision winners using Kibana dashboards
LEVEL: BEGINNER · PDF · FREE
What it is
Imagine making simple and stunning visualizations of data, even if you are a total beginner. Fantastic Elastic follows one engineer's journey from zero to a working Kibana dashboard, using Eurovision winners as the dataset. All done on the Elastic stack, with freely available data, on one computer, for free.
Who it's for
A fun, interactive read for data fans. Follow along just by reading, or try some or all of the steps yourself. If you are thinking of using Kibana, or working toward the Elastic Engineer Certification, this is a friendly place to start.
What's inside
Part One: From Zero
Create a dataset, install Elasticsearch and Kibana, and import the data.
Part Two: To Hero
Explore in Discover, build charts and visualizations, and assemble a dashboard.
Part Three: Getting Fancy
Make the project portable with Docker and share it with the world.
Appendices
Docker Compose, and using devtools to import data.
Details
- Author: Anita Lipsky
- Level: Beginner
- First published: 14 November 2019
- Format: PDF
- Price: Free
Not an official Elastic product. This book is a hobby project and is in no way endorsed by Elastic.