Company
Date Published
Author
Dale McDiarmid
Word count
1476
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

This blog post continues its series on visualizing data in ClickHouse by exploring Metabase as a popular tool for business users who are less comfortable with writing SQL. Metabase offers a simpler experience, focusing on fast data exploration and a cleaner interface, but with less breadth of visuals and customizability compared to previous tools. The author demonstrates how to get started with Metabase, creating analytics using the questions feature, which allows users to build simple visualizations quickly without needing to write SQL queries. The tool also offers an SQL editor for more complex visualizations and supports various visualization types, including combo charts, funnel visualizations, and Pin maps. The author concludes that Metabase is a great option for those who want a simpler getting-started experience, but notes that the choice of tool ultimately depends on personal preference and data requirements.