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Walter Rafelsberger
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851
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Summary

Walter Rafelsberger's blog post provides a detailed guide on integrating Jupyter Notebook visualizations into Kibana dashboards using the Vega plugin, which became available with Elastic Stack 7.10. By leveraging the Altair library for Python, data scientists can create complex visualizations without manually writing Vega JSON specifications, thus maintaining their familiar work environment. The workflow demonstrates moving visualizations seamlessly between Python/Jupyter and JavaScript/Kibana, addressing the limitations of static data visualizations in Jupyter by utilizing Kibana's real-time capabilities. The post includes example workflows and notebooks that guide users through visualizing data from Elasticsearch and Elastic machine learning, such as creating dashboards for anomaly detection and outlier results. These examples are accessible on GitHub and aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of deploying Jupyter visualizations to Kibana, encouraging engagement through forums and offering a trial of the Elasticsearch Service for hands-on exploration.