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Learn Metabase

Learn how to set Metabase up, build out your analytics, organize things and set permissions, and how to do data ops right.

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  1. Getting Started

    Get up and running by asking questions, creating dashboards, and sharing your work.

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    1. Installing and running Metabase
    2. Setting up Metabase
    3. Getting started with Metabase
    4. Sharing your work with others
    5. Exploring data with Metabase's data browser
    6. A tour of Metabase

  2. Asking questions

    How to use Metabase's query builder to ask better questions.

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    1. Create charts with explorable data
    2. Custom expressions in the notebook editor
    3. Joins in Metabase
    4. Multi-level aggregation

  3. Working with SQL

    Using SQL in Metabase.

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    1. Best practices for writing SQL queries
    2. Create filter widgets for charts using SQL variables
    3. Field Filters: create smart filter widgets for SQL questions
    4. Working with dates in SQL
    5. SQL snippets: reuse and share SQL code
    6. Simplify complex queries with Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
    7. SQL Snippets vs. Saved Questions vs. Views
    8. Combining tables with joins
    9. Types of SQL joins

  4. Visualizing data

    Learn how to visualize your data.

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    1. Which chart should you use?
    2. Guide to line charts
    3. Master the bar chart visualization
    4. Visualize your data as a histogram
    5. Visualizing data with maps
    6. Everything you can do with the table visualization
    7. How to create a pivot table to summarize your data

  5. Building dashboards

    How to build interactive dashboards.

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    1. Best practices for BI dashboards
    2. Linking filters in dashboards
    3. Custom destinations: choose what happens when people click on charts in your dashboard
    4. Cross-filtering: using a chart to update a dashboard filter
    5. Adding filters to dashboards with SQL questions
    6. Fun with Markdown in your dashboards

  6. Analytics with Metabase

    Guidance on data analysis, modeling, and making better data-driven decisions.

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    1. Time series comparisons
    2. Build a record lookup tool with Metabase
    3. Beyond BI: other problems you can solve with Metabase
    4. Searching your tables and questions
    5. Which data warehouse should you use?
    6. Common data model mistakes made by startups
    7. Ten common analytics mistakes startups make
    8. The push and pull of analytics

  7. Administration and operation

    Guidance on running and administering Metabase at scale.

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    1. Managing people in Metabase
    2. Guide to sharing data
    3. Keeping your analytics organized
    4. Customize your home page
    5. Serialization: preloading dashboards in a new Metabase instance
    6. Making dashboards faster
    7. Metabase at scale
    8. Working with the Metabase API

  8. Permissions

    Permissions, groups, data sandboxing, and auditing.

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    1. Guide to data permissions
    2. Working with collection permissions
    3. Data sandboxing: setting row-level permissions
    4. Advanced data sandboxing: limiting access to columns
    5. Auditing your users and data
    6. Using LDAP for authentication and access control

  9. Embedding

    Embedding Metabase in your app, using our API, and more.

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    1. Deliver analytics to your customers
    2. Embed Metabase in your app to deliver multi-tenant, self-service analytics
    3. Embedding charts and dashboards in your website
    4. Brand your Metabase