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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

Chapter 3: Setting Up Metabase

We now know all the ways to get an instance of Metabase up and running. What we have not done yet is actually used Metabase. That will change with this chapter. However, before we start to use Metabase to explore data, we need to do some setting up so that it's ready for others to join.

In this chapter, we are going to familiarize ourselves with the Admin section of Metabase, and we'll cover the following main topics:

  • Signing up for Metabase
  • Using a subdomain
  • Setting up email
  • Allowing others to use Metabase
  • Setting up Google sign-in
  • Integrating Metabase with Slack