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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

Exploring more visualizations in Metabase

In this section, we'll learn about some of the other visualizations we can do in Metabase. We'll start with scatter plots.

Creating scatter plots

In the last section, we learned how to create plots with multiple dimensions and metrics. In our plot of order count and order revenue, we noticed the two values had a lot of correlation, or co-movement. A big part of analytics and data science involves looking at correlations, understanding how one metric moves when another one does as well. The type of plot most commonly used to visualize how two metrics correlate is the scatter plot. Let's learn how to make one.

First, let's think of two metrics that we'd like to examine the relationship of. Let's choose to examine how the average review score correlates with the number of reviews for a given menu item. We'd expect that the more reviews a menu item has the higher its average review score. Let's see...