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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

Signing up for a free trial of AWS

The first thing we will need to do is sign up for an AWS account. To get started, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ in your browser. Note the yellow button in the middle of the page reading Create a Free Account. Click that button to begin the signup process.

You can learn about what the Free Tier actually offers by clicking the link underneath the Sign Up button. The relevant parts of the free tier for our purposes are the following:

  • 12 full months of selected free services, starting at the time you create an account.
  • 750 hours per month of compute and database services. A 31-day month has 744 hours in it, so 750 hours is enough to let them run all month without worry.
  • 5 GB of storage. We will use their storage service, S3, to keep log files and things of that nature, so 5 GB is plenty.

After clicking the Sign Up button, you may create your account:

  1. Enter your email, a strong password, and a username.
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