What is Metabase? — A Clean Analytics Platform
“Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool. It lets you ask questions about your data, and displays answers in formats that make sense, whether that’s a bar graph or a detailed table.
Your questions can be saved for later, making it easy to come back to them, or you can group questions into great looking dashboards. Metabase also makes it easy to share questions and dashboards with the rest of your team.”
~Metabase Website
High level features (taken from github)
- 5 minute setup (We’re not kidding)
- Let anyone on your team ask questions without knowing SQL
- Rich beautiful dashboards with auto refresh and fullscreen
- SQL Mode for analysts and data pros
- Create canonical segments and metrics for your team to use
- Send data to Slack or email on a schedule with dashboard subscriptions
- View data in Slack anytime with MetaBot
- Humanize data for your team by renaming, annotating and hiding fields
- See changes in your data with alerts
What it looks like
Quickly Get Data
Metabase allows for high level searching the entire workspace for data or more detailed queries that can be built with a low code SQL like query builder in addition to traditional SQL support.
Customize Queries and Visualizations
Save Questions
One feature i really like about Metabase is the ability to save questions. this is very valuable for analysts and data workers.
Embed Metabase Dashboards in Your Apps
Conclusion
Metabase is a very clean looking product and as it grows in popularity remains a solid choice for data cataloging, dash-boarding and integration.
