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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
Book Image

Metabase Up and Running

By: Tim Abraham

Overview of this book

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that helps you use data to answer questions about your business. This book will give you a detailed introduction to using Metabase in your organization to get the most value from your data. You’ll start by installing and setting up Metabase on your local computer. You’ll then progress to handling the administration aspect of Metabase by learning how to configure and deploy Metabase, manage accounts, and execute administrative tasks such as adding users and creating permissions and metadata. Complete with examples and detailed instructions, this book shows you how to create different visualizations, charts, and dashboards to gain insights from your data. As you advance, you’ll learn how to share the results with peers in your organization and cover production-related aspects such as embedding Metabase and auditing performance. Throughout the book, you’ll explore the entire data analytics process—from connecting your data sources, visualizing data, and creating dashboards through to daily reporting. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to implement Metabase as an integral tool in your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
4
Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
12
Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Adding filters to a dashboard

Let's reflect on the Executive Summary dashboard we built in the last section. It provides a great high-level view of our business, showing the up-and-to-the-right growth across all our key metrics that so many organizations covet.

I can imagine this dashboard looking impressive on a large monitor in the office. The dashboard does a good job of telling the story of the business since its inception. What it doesn't do well is tell the story of how the business is doing right now. Nor does it do a good job of telling how segments of this business are doing – for example, the delivery business, or the growth of business in the state of California. These questions are more niche, so they don't all need their own dashboards. At the same time, there are people in our organization that certainly care about them! Just like we were able to apply filters to our individual questions, Metabase also allows global filters at the dashboard level...