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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

Organizing everything in collections

Over the last several chapters, we've learned how to create questions, dashboards, pulses, and collections. Let's take a step back and reflect on how all these pieces fit together.

Questions are the fundamental building block of analysis in Metabase and are visualized as a plot, single number, or table of data. Dashboards and pulses both contain multiple questions, usually related to one another. Finally, collections are like the folders or directories on your computer. They contain questions, dashboards, pulses, and even other collections. Unlike dashboards and pulses, whose purpose is to display the information of several questions to a user, the purpose of a collection is simply to hold these assets and allow organization.

We've now saved quite a few questions to the Our Analytics collection. Remember that the Our Analytics collection comes as default with Metabase and is like the home directory on your computer. All other...