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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to put multiple questions to work on a dashboard. Dashboards are great at showing lots of related questions all together in one view. We also learned how to make a pulse and have it emailed out on a scheduled basis or sent via Slack. We explored the ways that we can use MetaBot, Metabase's Slack bot, to access our saved questions in a lightweight fashion. We then learned best practices on how to organize all these items in collections. Finally, we learned how to set up group-level permissions at the collection level.

Having learned about questions, dashboards, pulses, and collections, we have now covered all the main features in Metabase for analytics. In the next chapter, we'll step into a more advanced topic and learn how to leverage SQL queries in Metabase. We've already seen one example of this back in Chapter 6, Creating Questions, when we had a question that the editor could not answer. As the analytical needs of an organization...