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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

Understanding permissions in collections

Back in Chapter 5, Building Your Data Model, we were introduced to permissions. In that chapter, we learned how to set permissions for databases, database tables, and even database table columns. This was largely to control what types of users can create questions on certain tables or databases. In addition to these data permissions, Metabase offers permissions at the collections level as well. Let's learn how to apply them.

Setting collection-level permissions

There are two ways to set collection-level permissions. Let's see them both.

The first way to set collection-level permissions is similar to the data-level permissions we learned about in Chapter 5, Building Your Data Model. To do this, start in the Admin Panel:

  1. From the top bar, click Permissions.
  2. Next to the Data permissions tab, find the Collection permissions tab and click it.

You'll see a grid that is 1 row by N columns, where N equals the...