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Metabase Up and Running

You're reading from  Metabase Up and Running

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202313
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tim Abraham Tim Abraham
Profile icon 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 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

Customizing plots

Without it being our explicit goal, we created a line plot in Chapter 6, Creating Questions. When we took our Orders table and counted the rows by Created Date, Metabase guessed that we would want the data to be displayed as a line plot. In analytics, especially business analytics, line plots tend to be the most popular type of data visualization. That is because line plots are used to show time series data where data is summarized over intervals of time, such as days, weeks, months, quarters, or years.

When we came across this line plot in the last chapter, we simply saved it as a question and moved on. Let's now create another one and explore all the ways Metabase will let us customize our visualization. Let's get started.

In the last chapter, we looked at order growth over time. Now let's look at user growth over time. Since this involves a single table (Users), a single aggregation (Count of rows), and a single grouping (Created Date), we...

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