Metabase Up and Running: Introduce business intelligence and analytics to your company and make better business decisions

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 Description

Metabase 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 for

This 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.

使用開源商業智能工具Metabase，您可以對數據提出問題並獲得洞察力，以做出更好的業務決策。

主要功能：

- 部署Metabase應用程序，讓組織中的用戶與之互動
- 通過各種示例學習創建數據可視化、圖表、報告和儀表板的方法
- 了解如何將Metabase嵌入到您的網站中，並使用電子郵件和Slack自動發送報告

書籍描述：

Metabase是一個開源的商業智能工具，可以幫助您使用數據回答有關您的業務的問題。本書將詳細介紹如何在組織中使用Metabase，以從數據中獲得最大價值。

您將首先在本地計算機上安裝和設置Metabase。然後，您將進一步處理Metabase的管理方面，學習如何配置和部署Metabase，管理帳戶，執行管理任務（例如添加用戶，創建權限和元數據）。本書通過示例和詳細的說明，向您展示如何創建不同的可視化效果、圖表和儀表板，以從數據中獲得洞察力。隨著您的進一步學習，您將學習如何與組織中的同事共享結果，並涵蓋嵌入Metabase和審核性能等與生產相關的方面。在整本書中，您將探索整個數據分析過程-從連接數據源、可視化數據和創建儀表板到日常報告。

通過閱讀本書，您將準備好將Metabase作為組織中的一個重要工具來實施。

您將學到什麼：

- 探索不同類型的數據庫，並了解如何將它們連接到Metabase
- 使用Amazon Web Services安全地部署和托管Metabase
- 使用Metabase的用戶界面在單個和多個表上過濾和聚合數據
- 通過學習如何添加用戶和創建權限，成為Metabase管理員
- 通過使用筆記本編輯器和編寫SQL查詢來回答組織的關鍵問題
- 使用搜索功能搜索表格、儀表板和指標

本書適合商業分析師、數據分析師、數據科學家和其他希望通過Metabase熟練掌握商業智能和分析的專業人士。本書還適合任何希望通過實際示例理解數據並提取有意義洞察的人。開始閱讀本書需要基本的數據處理和處理能力。

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.

Tim Abraham是來自加州奧克蘭的人，目前居住在舊金山灣區。他在數據科學領域工作已有10年的經驗，曾在StumbleUpon、Twitter和Airbnb等消費科技公司工作，並為其他一些公司提供顧問服務。他還曾在Expa擔任數據科學家，Expa是Metabase的母公司，他在那裡認識了這個產品和創始團隊。

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Metabase
2. Hosting Metabase on AWS
3. Setting Up Metabase
4. Connecting to Databases
5. Building Your Data Model
6. Creating Questions
7. Creating Visualizations
8. Building Dashboards, Pulses, and Collections
9. Using the SQL Console
10. Advanced Features, Getting Help, and Contributing

目錄

1. Metabase 概述
2. 在 AWS 上託管 Metabase
3. 設置 Metabase
4. 連接到資料庫
5. 建立資料模型
6. 創建問題
7. 創建視覺化圖表
8. 建立儀表板、脈衝和集合
9. 使用 SQL 控制台
10. 高級功能、獲取幫助和貢獻