While some subset of these tend to be built into your product, most aren’t. How many 5-star reviews does the average merchant have on our site?.Did John Doe have any credit card chargebacks when he opened this support case?.Which accounts are up for renewal next month?.How many reservations do we have for next Tuesday?.These are the questions that typically make up 90% of the query volume at most companies that no one ever brings up in a blog post: Instead, we want to draw attention to what can be called the Dark Matter of analytics. We’re not talking about multichannel attribution, inventory forecasting, demand curve generation, or fine-grained Life Time Value or Cost of Acquiring a Customer (at least not yet). If you’ve been involved with analytics, you’ve probably jumped 10 steps ahead and are thinking about all the complicated things that need to get measured. No one else needs to see your data, and you can lock things down to your heart’s content. Metabase is open source, installs in minutes, and works with a wide variety of databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Redshift. Using a simple graphical interface, anyone in your company can create dashboards, set up nightly emails, or ask simple questions on their own.įor questions that are not quite as simple, analysts and engineers can run SQL questions as well.Īfter a question has been added to Metabase, anyone with access can easily re-run it, tweak it, and share it. Metabase is the simplest way to get data in front of anyone on your team. For all the talk of “company transformation,” expensive conference booths, and six- or seven-figure sticker shock, at its heart analytics can be fairly simple and incremental. Maybe you even want them to be able to make a chart and pass it around. Maybe you want to let others in your company do so as well. But sometimes you just want to pull some data out of a database. Meanwhile, everyone else’s engineering blogs are giving you all the details about how they burned through a couple hundred grand or more in engineering time to set up some view counters on their home page. Machine learning. Machine learning to learn your machine learning parameters.

If you spend any time reading on the internet, you’ve probably noticed that the subjects of analytics and business intelligence tend to take on very complex overtones.

Guest post by Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO, Metabase

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