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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

Introduction to Amazon Web Services

While most of us think of Amazon as a retailer, their web services actually account for the bulk of the tech giant's profits. Many internet services we use daily are being run on Amazon's various data centers around the world. Today, AWS is the most broadly adopted cloud platform in the world.

AWS is made up of various services. A service can be vaguely thought of as a cloud-based solution to some technical problems, such as database management, machine learning, or computation. As of this writing, AWS has over 175 unique services, but luckily for us, we will only need to use a few.

Rather than explain upfront what all these services are and do, let's start instead by signing up for an AWS account and learn as we go.