'IT Support for Research' Workshop: Dashboard Tools – Grafana

The Grafana dashboard allows PolyU research students to query, visualize and explore data stored on multiple different repositories. It provides functions to turn time-series data into graphics for visualization. A workshop on Grafana will be held with details as below:

'IT Support for Research' Workshop: Dashboard Tools – Grafana

Target Audience: RPg, TPg and Ug students

Pre-requisite: No pre-requisite is required

Medium of Instruction: English

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to Grafana

• What is Grafana?
• Why use Grafana?
• Introduction to time series

2. Provision dashboards and data sources

• Data sources
• Panel
• Dashboard
• Grafana installation
• MariaDB installation

3. Real World Examples

• COVID-19 confirmed cases in the United States
• Daily Maximum Temperature – Sheung Shui/Sha Tin
• Real-time parking vacancy data of Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Car Park 1

4. Course work

• Daily Mean Wind Speed - Hong Kong International Airport and answer

5. Manage users and permission in Grafana

6. Course work

• Manage users and permission in Grafana and answer

7. Reference