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Tim Abraham
Tim Abraham
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Tim Abraham

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.
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Creating a simple dashboard

As mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, a dashboard is simply a curated collection of interactive questions arranged on a single screen. Once you know what questions you'd like to curate for a dashboard, the process of actually creating one is very simple. Let's learn how, using some of the questions we have already created. Let's imagine that this dashboard is intended to give its viewers the most high-level understanding of the health of the business – a sort of executive summary. Some questions that might work well for this dashboard are related to the following:

  • Order growth
  • User growth
  • Revenue growth

To create this dashboard, click the large + button in the top blue bar and select New dashboard from the menu, as in Figure 8.1:

Figure 8.1 – Creating a new dashboard

Figure 8.1 – Creating a new dashboard

A modal will pop up, asking for a name and description:

  1. Under Name, write Executive Summary...
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Tim Abraham

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.
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