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Metabase

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that lets you create charts and dashboards using data from a variety of databases and data sources.

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Features

Find below some of the main features of Metabase:

  • A user-friendly Interface
  • A wide array of high-quality visualizations to showcase your data
  • Wide range of database support (e.g. most SQL databases are supported)
  • The ability to add custom visualization plugins
  • Alerts: get notified when a metric hits a certain number
  • Interactive charts: customize what happens when users click on a chart

Use Cases

Find below some examples of possible use cases:

  • Data exploration (explore your data using the array of data visualizations or by using the built-in SQL Lab to write queries against your data)
  • Data visualization (creating interactive dashboard and other types of visualizations)

Resources

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