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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

Plots with multiple dimensions or metrics

In Chapter 6, Creating Questions, we created the Orders per Day question and saved it as a line plot. We learned that our business has been steadily growing over time, which is great! Now we would like to learn a little more about this growth in orders. In particular, we want to understand how much of this growth can be attributed to Pick-Up orders versus Delivery. In this case, we're still interested in the same metric: Orders per Day. However, we want to see the metric broken down by two dimensions. Let's learn how we can create this question.

Creating a plot with two dimensions

Let's create our plot of Orders by Day, broken down by Pick-Up and Delivery:

  1. Click Ask a question.
  2. Choose Custom question.
  3. In the Data section, choose Pies and Orders.
  4. Choose Count of Rows in the Summarize section.
  5. For the grouping variables, use both Created Date and Order Type. You can keep the time granularity of Created...