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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 Metabase

Before we get started, if you have not done this already, let's sign in to our Metabase instance. In the previous chapter, we deployed Metabase using Elastic Beanstalk on AWS and we now have a dedicated URL for our instance that looks something like this:

picklesandpies.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com

Visit the URL you created for your instance and we will finish the sign-up process:

  1. From the Welcome to Metabase screen, click the blue button reading Let's get started.
  2. On the next page, you will select your language and click Next.
  3. On the next page, fill in your name, email, password, and organization's name.
  4. On the Add your data step, for now, choose I'll add my data later. We will be covering all the different ways to add data in the next chapter, Databases.
  5. Keep the toggle on or off, depending on whether you want to allow Metabase to anonymously collect usage events.
  6. Optionally, subscribe to receive email...