Metabase Up and Running
Introduce business intelligence and analytics to your company and make better business decisions
Seiten
2020
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80020-231-3 (ISBN)
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80020-231-3 (ISBN)
This book is a comprehensive introduction for anyone who wants to use Metabase in their organization to make the most of their data. Metabase Up and Running guides you through the entire analytics journey, from connecting your data sources and creating visualizations and dashboards through to daily reporting.
Ask questions of your data and gain insights to make better business decisions using the open source business intelligence tool, Metabase
Key Features
Deploy Metabase applications to let users across your organization interact with it
Learn to create data visualizations, charts, reports, and dashboards with the help of a variety of examples
Understand how to embed Metabase into your website and send out reports automatically using email and Slack
Book DescriptionMetabase is an open source business intelligence tool that helps you use data to answer questions about your business. This book will give you a detailed introduction to using Metabase in your organization to get the most value from your data.
You’ll start by installing and setting up Metabase on your local computer. You’ll then progress to handling the administration aspect of Metabase by learning how to configure and deploy Metabase, manage accounts, and execute administrative tasks such as adding users and creating permissions and metadata. Complete with examples and detailed instructions, this book shows you how to create different visualizations, charts, and dashboards to gain insights from your data. As you advance, you’ll learn how to share the results with peers in your organization and cover production-related aspects such as embedding Metabase and auditing performance. Throughout the book, you’ll explore the entire data analytics process—from connecting your data sources, visualizing data, and creating dashboards through to daily reporting.
By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to implement Metabase as an integral tool in your organization.
What you will learn
Explore different types of databases and find out how to connect them to Metabase
Deploy and host Metabase securely using Amazon Web Services
Use Metabase’s user interface to filter and aggregate data on single and multiple tables
Become a Metabase admin by learning how to add users and create permissions
Answer critical questions for your organization by using the Notebook editor and writing SQL queries
Use the search functionality to search through tables, dashboards, and metrics
Who this book is forThis book is for business analysts, data analysts, data scientists, and other professionals who want to become well-versed with business intelligence and analytics using Metabase. This book will also appeal to anyone who wants to understand their data to extract meaningful insights with the help of practical examples. A basic understanding of data handling and processing is necessary to get started with this book.
Ask questions of your data and gain insights to make better business decisions using the open source business intelligence tool, Metabase
Key Features
Deploy Metabase applications to let users across your organization interact with it
Learn to create data visualizations, charts, reports, and dashboards with the help of a variety of examples
Understand how to embed Metabase into your website and send out reports automatically using email and Slack
Book DescriptionMetabase is an open source business intelligence tool that helps you use data to answer questions about your business. This book will give you a detailed introduction to using Metabase in your organization to get the most value from your data.
You’ll start by installing and setting up Metabase on your local computer. You’ll then progress to handling the administration aspect of Metabase by learning how to configure and deploy Metabase, manage accounts, and execute administrative tasks such as adding users and creating permissions and metadata. Complete with examples and detailed instructions, this book shows you how to create different visualizations, charts, and dashboards to gain insights from your data. As you advance, you’ll learn how to share the results with peers in your organization and cover production-related aspects such as embedding Metabase and auditing performance. Throughout the book, you’ll explore the entire data analytics process—from connecting your data sources, visualizing data, and creating dashboards through to daily reporting.
By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to implement Metabase as an integral tool in your organization.
What you will learn
Explore different types of databases and find out how to connect them to Metabase
Deploy and host Metabase securely using Amazon Web Services
Use Metabase’s user interface to filter and aggregate data on single and multiple tables
Become a Metabase admin by learning how to add users and create permissions
Answer critical questions for your organization by using the Notebook editor and writing SQL queries
Use the search functionality to search through tables, dashboards, and metrics
Who this book is forThis book is for business analysts, data analysts, data scientists, and other professionals who want to become well-versed with business intelligence and analytics using Metabase. This book will also appeal to anyone who wants to understand their data to extract meaningful insights with the help of practical examples. A basic understanding of data handling and processing is necessary to get started with this book.
Tim Abraham is originally from Oakland, California, and currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been working in Data Science for 10 years, spending his time working at consumer technology companies like StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Airbnb and advising a few others. He also spent time as a Data Scientist in Residence at Expa, the Startup Studio that Metabase came out of, which is where he got to know the product and the founding team. Find him on Twitter @timabe.
Table of Contents
Overview of Metabase
Hosting Metabase on AWS
Setting Up Metabase
Connecting to Databases
Building Your Data Model
Creating Questions
Creating Visualizations
Building Dashboards, Pulses, and Collections
Using the SQL Console
Advanced Features, Getting Help, and Contributing
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 75 x 93 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80020-231-8 / 1800202318 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80020-231-3 / 9781800202313 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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