Happy birthday Amazon Quick Sight Community! We are celebrating 1 year since the launch of our new Community. The Amazon Quick Sight Community website is a one-stop-shop where business intelligence (BI) authors and developers from across the globe can ask and answer questions, stay up to date, network, and learn together about Amazon Quick Sight. In this post, we celebrate the rapid growth of our first year of the Quick Sight Community, discuss new Community features, and share voices from our Community. We also invite you to sign up for the Quick Sight Community (it’s easy and free) and get started on your learning journey.
We’re growing strong
Since last year’s announcement of the new Quick Sight Community, we are witnessing hundreds of thousands of visits to the Quick Sight Community each month. Answers to thousands of searchable questions have been posted, and our online Learning Series is now running every week. An events calendar has been added, and hundreds of learning resources have been posted (how-to videos and articles, Getting Started resources, blog posts, and What’s New posts). Furthermore, a Community Manager has been brought on board. And Community Experts and Quick Sight Solution Architects are posting robust answers in the Q&A, supported by AWS Professional Services, AWS Data Lab, and Amazon Quick Sight Service Delivery Partners—led by West Loop Strategy. In addition, other Quick Sight Partners and content creators are bringing new life to the Community.
Why are we excited? Community members share their voices
As we celebrate year one, Quick Sight Community members share their voices:
“The community has been an awesome space to exchange ideas, problems, and solutions, which has really helped every one of us in adopting Quick Sight more effectively!” #thank you #community — Sagnik Mukherjee, Data and Analytics Architect, Quick Sight Expert
“I am so excited for the Quick Sight Learning Series! And I am happy to know that there is a supportive community…as I begin my QS journey!“ — Rachel Krentz, Configuration Analyst, Madaket
“The community has evolved so much in just one year!” — Darren Demicoli, BI Team Lead, The Mill Adventure, Quick Sight Expert
“Happy Birthday Quick Sight Community! I’m pretty new here but have found this to be a really great resource with answers to every question I have been able to come up with so far. Cheers!” — Brian Jager, Sales Operations Lead, Amazon Business
“I love being connected directly with other users and solutions architects…The Quick Sight Community helps me out a ton not having to spend as much of my time on training when I can point new users to a resource where their questions have likely already been answered.” — Ryane Brady, Programmer Analyst, GROWMARK, Inc., Quick Sight Expert
Hear more voices from our Community on our birthday post.
The Quick Sight Community: Your one-stop-shop for BI learning
Here’s a quick tour of the Quick Sight Community website as well as its new features.
The following figure shows the homepage view and everything that’s available.
Learning Center: What’s new
In addition to growing a robust, searchable Q&A, in the last year, we’ve added tons of new learning resources to the Quick Sight Community, including:
- Getting Started resources and Embedded Analytics resources
- New how-to articles
- Weekly learning series and workshop videos
When you select Learning Center on the homepage, you can choose from these various resources.
New: Learning events
In the last year, we’ve added an Events section to the Quick Sight Community. We now offer weekly and monthly learning webinars as well as featured in-person and online events. Ongoing virtual events include:
- Quick Sight Learning Series – Weekly (Wednesdays and Thursdays: Americas and Europe-friendly times)
- AWS PartnerCast Series on new Quick Sight features – Monthly (first Fridays)
- Virtual Immersion Days – Amazon Quick Sight – Monthly (second and third Wednesdays)
- Live Q&A with Solution Architects – Monthly (fourth Thursdays)
New: Experts and user groups
We’ve been excited to see Quick Sight user groups pop up over the past year, including one in the Twin Cities and one in Chicago—both hosted by Quick Sight Service Delivery Partners (Charter Solutions and West Loop Strategy, respectively).
In addition, we’ve launched our Quick Sight Experts program, honoring top question-answerers in the Community. These rock stars have relentlessly helped their peers take their learning to the next level.
Ryane Brady, Programmer Analyst, GROWMARK, Inc., is a Quick Sight Expert and top question-answerer in the Community. Here she is showing off her Expert swag. See the 2022 to Q1 2023 list of Experts at the bottom of this post.
First External Viz Challenge
In the last year, AWS hosted its very first external data visualization design competition to invited Quick Sight Service Delivery Partners. This enabled Quick Sight Partners to show off their visual analytics and storytelling skills. We were proud to feature the Quick Sight Partner Viz Challenge winners of 2022 on the Quick Sight Community.
Want to be a part of the Quick Sight Community?
| Sign up now to join the Quick Sight Community (it’s free and easy) and take your Quick Sight learning to the next level. |
As part of the Community, you can:
- Encourage your teams and colleagues to create Quick Sight Community user profiles—signup up is easy
- Click the bell icon in the top right corner of the page to get notifications and keep up to date with Quick Sight news
- Share your community ideas with the Community Manager
Come in on the ground floor and help us take the Quick Sight Community to the next level:
- Become an Expert and share your knowledge
- Pioneer a user group online or in your area
- Contribute a how-to article
If you’re interested in any of these opportunities, reach out to Kristin, the Sr. Online Community Manager for Quick Sight, at kmandia@amazon.com.
We’re just getting started
Thank you to everyone who has helped the Quick Sight Community grow over the last year! We can’t wait to see what this next year has in store!
Special thanks to our Quick Sight Experts who make the Quick Sight Community possible (listed alphabetically): Ryane Brady, Biswajit Dash, Darren Demicoli, Max Engelhard, Charles Greenacre, Naveed Hashimi, Todd Hoffman, Mike Khuns, Thomas Kotzurek, Sanjeeb Mohapatra, Sagnik Mukherjee and David Wong. Incredible gratitude to Lillie Atkins and Mia Heard, who launched the Community a year ago. Also, thanks to Jose Kunnackal John, Jill Florant, the Quick Sight Solution Architects, Amazon Quick Sight Service Delivery Partners—led by West Loop Strategy, AWS Service Acceleration team, AWS ProServe team, and AWS Data Lab team for your incredible investment in the Quick Sight Community.
About the Authors
Kristin Mandia is Senior Online Community Manager for Amazon Quick Sight, Amazon Web Services’ cloud-native, fully managed BI service.
Ian McNamara is a Program Manager and writer on the Customer Success Team for Amazon Quick Sight, Amazon Web Services’ cloud-native, fully managed BI service.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/its-the-amazon-quicksight-communitys-1st-birthday/
