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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
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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

Creating issues and filling bugs on GitHub

The entire Metabase project is maintained on GitHub at https://github.com/metabase. The main repository is https://github.com/metabase/metabase. Here is where all the code that runs your Metabase instance lives, as well as the all the changes to the code base since the project was first hosted on GitHub.

Development of Metabase on GitHub is done through issues and pull requests. You can think of issues as feature requests or bug reports, and pull requests as solutions to those feature requests or bug reports. Let's see an example.

An example of a GitHub issue and pull request

On November 9, 2017, an issue was opened on GitHub around having free-text markdown boxes in dashboards (Figure 10.12). We know, from Chapter 8, Building Dashboards, Pulses, and Collections, that this feature now exists. However, at the time that the issue was created, it didn't. The issue was what brought the need for the feature to the attention...