Organizing everything in collections
Over the last several chapters, we've learned how to create questions, dashboards, pulses, and collections. Let's take a step back and reflect on how all these pieces fit together.
Questions are the fundamental building block of analysis in Metabase and are visualized as a plot, single number, or table of data. Dashboards and pulses both contain multiple questions, usually related to one another. Finally, collections are like the folders or directories on your computer. They contain questions, dashboards, pulses, and even other collections. Unlike dashboards and pulses, whose purpose is to display the information of several questions to a user, the purpose of a collection is simply to hold these assets and allow organization.
We've now saved quite a few questions to the Our Analytics collection. Remember that the Our Analytics collection comes as default with Metabase and is like the home directory on your computer. All other...