This chapter showed you how to create an interactive analytical dashboard that consumes data from Hive.

There are numerous types of chart and widget components provided by CTools. However, in this chapter, we focused on building a dashboard using three types of charts (line, pie, and waterfall) to demonstrate the various and essential ways of feeding data to each component. In the latter part, we showed you how to style the page in CDE using the embedded CSS editor.

For more information on the CTools components, go to http://www.webdetails.pt/ctools.html. Moreover, if you are interested in CTools samples that are related to Hadoop and Hive, visit our website regularly at http://download.bigdataclass.com/ctools-samples.

By completing this chapter, you have acquired the basic skills to work with Pentaho and Hadoop, and are ready to move to a larger scale of Hadoop cluster. Good luck!