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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

Chapter 2: Deploying Metabase with AWS

Now that we have learned the simple way to deploy Metabase to the cloud, this chapter will focus on the official paved path for users who want to self-host. This path involves using Amazon Web Services, or AWS as I'll be referring to it going forward. For software, AWS can do just about everything – it is massively complex, and explaining it thoroughly would fill entire libraries. A full explanation of all AWS can offer is far beyond the scope of this book, and as such, this chapter's goal is to explain only the relevant parts of AWS in a gentle but thorough manner.

Readers with backgrounds in technical operations or experience with AWS may skip some of the sections in this chapter. However, many people interested in using Metabase have backgrounds in analytics but know very little about software development operations. For users such as these, this chapter will be extremely useful as I will gently but comprehensively explain...

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