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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
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Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
12
Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Summary

We covered quite a bit of advanced content in this chapter, all around how to best use SQL in Metabase. By now, you should understand that SQL absolutely has a role to play in a fully functioning Metabase environment. Moreover, you should understand the time and place where SQL is appropriate, and where it's better to stick with the notebook editor.

I've seen a lot of novice SQL programmers become very proficient at SQL after having the chance to play around with it in Metabase. SQL is an incredibly powerful language that has staying power. I believe we'll be using it for decades to come. It tends to be one of the easier languages to learn, too, so I encourage you to make it a part of your Metabase environment.

This chapter concludes our exploration of the core features of Metabase. In the next chapter, we'll learn about some advanced features of Metabase, find out where to go for additional help, and learn how we can contribute to Metabase's...