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Metabase Up and Running

Metabase Up and Running

By : Abraham
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Metabase Up and Running

Metabase Up and Running

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By: 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)
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Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
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Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
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Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Chapter 10: Advanced Features, Getting Help, and Contributing

At this point, we've covered all of the core features of Metabase. We started our journey covering how to properly deploy and set up an instance of Metabase. We then learned how to connect to a database and enhance our data model's metadata. Finally, we learned how to create questions, both in the notebook editor and the SQL console, make them into interactive visualizations, and add them to dashboards and pulses. We're now equipped with everything we need to create a well-functioning analytics environment for an organization of any size.

Because this book is intended for power users, we won't simply stop at an overview of all the core features. Power users should know about everything Metabase has to offer, including where to get help. In the first half of this chapter, we will learn about some of the advanced features Metabase offers. Just because I use the word "advanced," does not mean...

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