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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned all about visualizations. We started with simple bar and line plots, then learned about other less common plot types, such as scatterplots and funnel plots. We learned how to make visualizations that focus on single important numbers, put them in context with goals, and created alerts that notify us when those goals are reached. Finally, we learned how to make impressive maps using geo-related data.

Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, a good visualization can instantly communicate a complex idea from a saved question. After working through this chapter, you should have a good understanding of what types of visualizations work best for certain questions.

At this point, we have quite a few saved questions and visualizations in the Our Analytics collection. In the next chapter, we'll learn how to put these on dashboards. A dashboard is just an organized set of visualizations, often used to convey a holistic understanding of something...