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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 6: Creating Questions

In the last chapter, we saw what our data looks like in Metabase and laid the groundwork to perform analytics. In this chapter, we will learn how to create questions. Questions in Metabase are exactly what they sound like. Are you curious to know how many orders we have at our fictional business? What about the number of users? In this chapter, we'll learn how to ask those questions in Metabase (and get the answers).

Questions are the fundamental building blocks of Metabase. Understanding how to create questions in Metabase will unlock all the actual analytical aspects of the product and open up key insights into our organization. As we work through the rest of the book, we'll learn that features in Metabase, such as dashboards and reports, are simply sets of questions.

There are several ways to create questions in Metabase, and in this chapter, we'll cover them all. The best way to learn about questions is to jump right in and start...

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