Creating Tag Cloud Visualizations in Kibana 7.6

1 hour
  • 3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

Tag cloud visualizations don’t necessarily hold the same data analysis value as other visualizations, but they do provide a friendly and eye-catching visual, ideal for high-level audiences who aren’t going to as intuitively interpret more complex visualizations. This lesson is dedicated to creating and customizing tag cloud visualizations in Kibana.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Create and Save the Top Products by Sales Visualization
  1. Create a new tag cloud visualization.
  2. Compute the number of sales labelled as "Sales".
  3. Tag the top 5 of "products.product_name.keyword" ordered by the number of sales in descending order and labelled as "Product".
  4. Save the visualization as "Top Products by Sales".
Create and Save the Top Cities by Customers Visualization
  1. Create a new tag cloud visualization.
  2. Compute the number of "customer_id" labelled as "Customers".
  3. Tag the top 5 of "geoip.city_name" ordered by the number of customers in descending order and labelled as "City".
  4. Save the visualization as "Top Cities by Customers".
Create and Save the Top Customers by Purchased Amount Visualization
  1. Create a new tag cloud visualization.
  2. Compute the sum of "products.price" labelled as "Purchased Amount".
  3. Tag the top 5 of "customer_full_name.keyword" ordered by the total purchased amount in descending order and labelled as "Customer".
  4. Save the visualization as "Top Customers by Purchased Amount".

Additional Resources

You work as a data analyst for an e-commerce website that sells clothing and accessories. You've been tasked with creating some tag cloud visualizations that answer some question about sales and customers to be used in a high-level dashboard. The tag cloud visualizations are as follows:

Top Products by Sales

  • Compute the number of sales labelled as Sales.
  • Tag the top 5 of products.product_name.keyword ordered by the number of sales in descending order and labelled as Product.

Top Cities by Customers

  • Compute the number of customer_id labelled as Customers.
  • Tag the top 5 of geoip.city_name ordered by the number of customers in descending order and labelled as City.

Top Customers by Purchased Amount

  • Compute the sum of products.price labelled as Purchased Amount.
  • Tag the top 5 of customer_full_name.keyword ordered by the total purchased amount in descending order and labelled as Customer.

Your lab node has a Kibana instance that be accessed in your local web browser by navigating to the public IP address of the lab node over port 8080 (example: http://public_ip:8080). To log in, use the elastic user with the password elastic_acg.

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