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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to put multiple questions to work on a dashboard. Dashboards are great at showing lots of related questions all together in one view. We also learned how to make a pulse and have it emailed out on a scheduled basis or sent via Slack. We explored the ways that we can use MetaBot, Metabase's Slack bot, to access our saved questions in a lightweight fashion. We then learned best practices on how to organize all these items in collections. Finally, we learned how to set up group-level permissions at the collection level.

Having learned about questions, dashboards, pulses, and collections, we have now covered all the main features in Metabase for analytics. In the next chapter, we'll step into a more advanced topic and learn how to leverage SQL queries in Metabase. We've already seen one example of this back in Chapter 6, Creating Questions, when we had a question that the editor could not answer. As the analytical needs of an organization...

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