Getting Started with Salesforce Einstein Analytics: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Interactive Dashboards (1st ed.)

By: Johan Yu

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Synopsis: Build interactive dashboards using Salesforce Einstein analytics. Explore all of your data quickly and easily by providing AI-powered advanced analytics, right in Salesforce. You will manage datasets, query data with Salesforce Analytics Query Language (SAQL), and customize dashboards.Because Einstein Analytics is new, the curve to learn this technology can be difficult. This book guides you step-by-step in simple, easy-to-understand terms to get data from the Salesforce platform to the Einstein Analytics platform and also shows you how to import external data (e.g., CSV files). Core chapters focus on understanding data sources, dataflow, dataset, and lens leading up to building dashboards from scratch. Advanced features such as data transformation using computeExpression and computeRelative as well as dataflow with a multi-value lookup are explored. What You Will Learn Use data from Salesforce and external sourcesCreate a dataflow to build a flexible datasetBuild dashboards using Einstein AnalyticsExplore and analyze data using Einstein AnalyticsUtilize SAQL and binding to create advance dashboards Who This Book Is For IT users getting started with Einstein Analytics, Salesforce consultants starting new Einstein Analytics projects, and power users familiar with Salesforce reporting and dashboards who want to get up to speed on new analytics features