Summary

In this chapter, we finally got to explore our data in Metabase. After a brief tour, we spent a lot of the chapter in the Admin Panel learning how to enhance the metadata of our database and its tables. By adding descriptions, curating our field settings, and specifying foreign key relationships, we give users in our organization a better chance of finding what they want – and help them avoid making mistakes. All they need to do to get started is open the data reference!

We also learned how to restrict access to sensitive databases and data tables using permissions and groups.

Aside from all that, we got several glimpses of what Metabase actually does. Inadvertently, by browsing data, filtering it, and making metrics and segments, we introduced ourselves to some of the basic capabilities Metabase has to offer.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to create questions – the main building blocks for everything in Metabase. Much of it will look familiar...