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Metabase Up and Running

You're reading from Metabase Up and Running

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800202313

Pages 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Tim Abraham

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase

2. Chapter 1: Overview of Metabase

3. Chapter 2: Deploying Metabase with AWS

4. Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data

5. Chapter 3: Setting Up Metabase

6. Chapter 4: Connecting to Databases

7. Chapter 5: Building Your Data Model

8. Chapter 6: Creating Questions

9. Chapter 7: Creating Visualizations

10. Chapter 8: Creating Dashboards, Pulses, and Collections

11. Chapter 9: Using the SQL Console

12. Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

13. Chapter 10: Advanced Features, Getting Help, and Contributing

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 4: Connecting to Databases

In this chapter, we will finally connect a database to Metabase and start exploring data. This chapter is all about databases. Metabase is designed to connect to most of today's most popular relational, NoSQL, and analytical databases, and we will learn a little about each one.

We will also learn how to launch our own PostgreSQL database and load it with the sample data we will be exploring throughout the rest of the book. In addition to preparing us with a dataset to use in future chapters, this chapter is intended to help you learn the best practices when working with databases.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

What is a database?
Creating a PostgreSQL database in AWS
Connecting to our PostgreSQL database in Metabase
Connecting to a database with best practices
Connecting to other types of databases in Metabase

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Authors (1)

Tim Abraham

Tim Abraham is originally from Oakland, California, and currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been working in Data Science for 10 years, spending his time working at consumer technology companies like StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Airbnb and advising a few others. He also spent time as a Data Scientist in Residence at Expa, the Startup Studio that Metabase came out of, which is where he got to know the product and the founding team. Find him on Twitter @timabe.

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