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    Getting Started With Superset: Airbnb’s data exploration platform

These instructions are for Amazon Linux Version 2
Update Python and PIP versions on EC2 (Amazon AMI)

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install python3 -y
Adjust PATH

Add below lines to ~/.bashrc
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
alias python=python3
source ~/.bashrc
Update PIP & other OS dependencies for Superset

sudo apt-get install --reinstall build-essential
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ python3-devel cyrus-sasl-devel
pip3 install cchardet==1.0.0
Validate Python and PIP

Check Python and PIP
$ python -V
Python 3.5.1

$ pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)

Setup Superset

Install superset
sudo pip3 install superset
Create an admin user (you will be prompted to set username, first and last name before setting a password)
fabmanager create-admin --app superset
Initialize the database
superset db upgrade
Load some data to play with
superset load_examples
Create default roles and permissions
superset init
Start the web server on port 8088, use -p to bind to another port
superset runserver -p 8080
Adjust security group to allow http port
http://<EC2 Public DNS>:8080/
References:

https://github.com/ApacheInfra/superset/blob/master/docs/installation.rst
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34103119/upgrade-pip-in-amazon-linux