Introducing Metabase

Before we get started, let's learn about what Metabase is and how it came to be. Metabase is software for analytics. Traditionally, we might refer to it as software for Business Intelligence, or BI. BI generally refers to software that aids in transforming data into actionable insights and visualizations. BI software has been around for a long time; Tableau and MicroStrategy are traditional examples. Today, many people in the industry, myself included, prefer the term analytics software over BI. I will be using that term going forward.

Finding answers in your database

Today, all organizations rely on analytics to stay competitive. As a famous saying goes, "you can't manage what you can't measure." Imagine you are a company selling products online and want to measure the number of products you have sold. While that seems like a simple question, many would have no idea of how to actually arrive at a number. Would you manually count...