How to use Cloudera Viz to create interactive visual apps

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Final article of the hybrid cloud series (see parent article here), and it's the funnest one! In this tutorial, we will learn to use Cloudera Viz to create visual apps. We will not go in depth into how to use viz, rather we will import an already existing app, executing on this part of the tutorial flow:

Prerequisites

• Complete Part 3 of the tutorial series.

Step 1: Import Viz App 

Navigate to your Management console > Data Warehouse > Open Cloudera Viz:

You will be redirected to the default examples; Navigate to the DATA tab:

Then, click on Default Hive VW (this is your CDW VW):

Then, click on Import Visual Artifacts:

Finally, import the viz app (link here) as follows:

After clicking on Import, you will see a new app:

Step 2: Update each maps with Mapbox token

In order for the maps to display, you will have to add a mapbox token. I will only detail one of the three dashboard edit here, but you will need to do it for each dashboard.

For this, first create an account at https://account.mapbox.com/auth/signup/ and copy your access token:

Then, go to the visual app and click the Edit button:

From there, click the dashboard to edit:

Once clicked, click Edit:

 From there, click on the map edit gear > Settings > add your Mapbox token > Save:

Step 3: Use App

Once all the dashboards have been updated with the appropriate token, launch the app:

You will then be able to have a daily updated visual of the Covid cases and the risk of all branches to re-open based on the spread of the virus: