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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

Signing up for a free trial of AWS

The first thing we will need to do is sign up for an AWS account. To get started, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ in your browser. Note the yellow button in the middle of the page reading Create a Free Account. Click that button to begin the signup process.

You can learn about what the Free Tier actually offers by clicking the link underneath the Sign Up button. The relevant parts of the free tier for our purposes are the following:

  • 12 full months of selected free services, starting at the time you create an account.
  • 750 hours per month of compute and database services. A 31-day month has 744 hours in it, so 750 hours is enough to let them run all month without worry.
  • 5 GB of storage. We will use their storage service, S3, to keep log files and things of that nature, so 5 GB is plenty.

After clicking the Sign Up button, you may create your account:

  1. Enter your email, a strong password, and a username.
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