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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

Technical requirements

You will need a running instance of Metabase with a connection to the pies database. As we'll be writing a lot of SQL in this chapter, it's helpful to have some knowledge of the language. If you don't know SQL, you'll still be able to copy, paste, and run all the queries, but you will get more out of the chapter if you also understand what they do.

Important Note

NoSQL databases, as their name suggests, cannot be queried with SQL. They can still be queried with their own query languages, and these can be run inside Metabase, but they tend to look very different from SQL. In this chapter, we will only cover SQL, as most Metabase users tend to use relational databases.