Chapter 6: Creating Questions

In the last chapter, we saw what our data looks like in Metabase and laid the groundwork to perform analytics. In this chapter, we will learn how to create questions. Questions in Metabase are exactly what they sound like. Are you curious to know how many orders we have at our fictional business? What about the number of users? In this chapter, we'll learn how to ask those questions in Metabase (and get the answers).

Questions are the fundamental building blocks of Metabase. Understanding how to create questions in Metabase will unlock all the actual analytical aspects of the product and open up key insights into our organization. As we work through the rest of the book, we'll learn that features in Metabase, such as dashboards and reports, are simply sets of questions.

There are several ways to create questions in Metabase, and in this chapter, we'll cover them all. The best way to learn about questions is to jump right in and start...