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Published inSep 2020
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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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Organizing everything in collections

Over the last several chapters, we've learned how to create questions, dashboards, pulses, and collections. Let's take a step back and reflect on how all these pieces fit together.

Questions are the fundamental building block of analysis in Metabase and are visualized as a plot, single number, or table of data. Dashboards and pulses both contain multiple questions, usually related to one another. Finally, collections are like the folders or directories on your computer. They contain questions, dashboards, pulses, and even other collections. Unlike dashboards and pulses, whose purpose is to display the information of several questions to a user, the purpose of a collection is simply to hold these assets and allow organization.

We've now saved quite a few questions to the Our Analytics collection. Remember that the Our Analytics collection comes as default with Metabase and is like the home directory on your computer. All other...

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Published in: Sep 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800202313

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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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