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Metabase Up and Running

You're reading from   Metabase Up and Running Introduce business intelligence and analytics to your company and make better business decisions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202313
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Abraham Tim Abraham
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
2. Chapter 1: Overview of Metabase FREE CHAPTER 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

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...
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