Querying and dashboards
Identifying trends, building reports, setting up alerts, and more.
Asking questions
How to use Metabase's query builder to ask better questions.
Create interactive charts
Build charts that people can explore by using the query builder, building models, or adding custom destinations.
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Custom expressions in the notebook editor
When you should use custom expressions and why you should take advantage of them in Metabase's notebook editor.
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Joins in Metabase
How to join tables in Metabase using the notebook editor in simple and custom questions.
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Multi-level aggregation
How to ask questions with multiple parts using the query builder.
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Searching your tables and questions
Learn how to search within your SQL questions and simple questions using filters and custom expressions. Finding words or phrases in your tables is now easier than ever.
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Cleaning and formatting text
How to use custom expressions to clean up text that's inconsistent, unstructured, or blank.
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Visualizing data
Charts, maps, gauges, funnels, tables, numbers, and more.
Which chart should you use?
Which type of charts and graphs should you use to best communicate insights from data? This guide will help you pick the right visualization for the job.
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Guide to line charts
What we talk about when we talk about line charts: time series, trend lines, alerts, and more.
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Master the bar chart visualization
Create a bar chart and customize it with visualization settings.
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Visualize your data as a histogram
Learn when to use a histogram, and how Metabase makes it easy to create histograms.
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Visualizing data with maps
How to use pin maps, region maps, and grid maps to visualize data in Metabase.
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Almost everything you can do with the table visualization
Learn how to set up conditional formatting, mini bar charts, value formatting, and more.
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Creating pivot tables
Learn how to create pivot tables using different databases in Metabase.
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Funnel charts
Use funnel charts to show progression through steps.
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Building dashboards
How to build interactive dashboards.
BI dashboard best practices
Learn how to make great business intelligence dashboards.
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Linking filters in dashboards
Link filters in dashboards to limit the choices available in one filter based on the current selection of another filter.
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Custom destinations: choose what happens when people click on charts in your dashboard
You can set up dashboard cards to send people to dashboards, saved questions, and URLs, and use values from the card to update filters at the destination, or parameterize links to external sites.
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Cross-filtering: using a chart to update a dashboard filter
With just a few clicks, you can configure any chart or table to update a dashboard filter.
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Adding filters to dashboards with SQL questions
How to add filter widgets to dashboards and connect them to Field Filter variables in a SQL question.
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Build a record lookup tool with Metabase
How to use Metabase to build an internal lookup tool to quickly find details about your customers, orders, or other data.
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Why you should regularly edit your dashboards
Editing dashboards is more than just maintaining your tools; it helps keep you focused on the right priorities.
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Fun with Markdown in your dashboards
How to use Markdown in your dashboards for fun and profit.
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Time series analysis
How to put all that historical data to good use.
Getting insights from time series data
An overview of methods you can use to track progress, estimate impact, and more.
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Period-over-period comparisons for time series
How to measure the change in a metric over time by comparing two or more time periods.
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Visualizing time series comparisons
Tell a story by organizing time series charts on the same dashboard.
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Data modeling
How to make building blocks for analytics.
Models in Metabase
Create models to give people good starting datasets for new questions.
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Analytics engineering for fact tables
How to model data for a fact table, based on real analytics use cases.
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Actions
Using actions to write back to databases, create forms, and more.
Build a basic CRUD app with actions
How to turn a dashboard into a basic CRUD app using actions.
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