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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

Embedding and sharing externally

Metabase offers the ability to make questions and dashboards publicly available, meaning they can be shared with anyone – not just users with Metabase accounts. The thing I like most about this feature is that it lets you use all of Metabase's functionality and their visualization library externally. If you've ever tried to create your own interactive data visualization from scratch on a website, you will know that it's not simple. That's why it's nice to know that we can stand on the shoulders of Metabase to make it easy.

There are two ways you can share Metabase questions and dashboards externally: via public URLs and by embedding them on external websites. We'll start off learning about the first method: sharing via public URLs.

Publicly sharing questions and dashboard

Let's imagine our marketing team is running a contest where our top customer earns free pickles and pies for life. They've announced...

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