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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

Embedding and sharing externally

Metabase offers the ability to make questions and dashboards publicly available, meaning they can be shared with anyone – not just users with Metabase accounts. The thing I like most about this feature is that it lets you use all of Metabase's functionality and their visualization library externally. If you've ever tried to create your own interactive data visualization from scratch on a website, you will know that it's not simple. That's why it's nice to know that we can stand on the shoulders of Metabase to make it easy.

There are two ways you can share Metabase questions and dashboards externally: via public URLs and by embedding them on external websites. We'll start off learning about the first method: sharing via public URLs.

Publicly sharing questions and dashboard

Let's imagine our marketing team is running a contest where our top customer earns free pickles and pies for life. They've announced...