Best practices for organizing data in your Metabase instance | Webinar recording

The more people use your Metabase, the more questions, dashboards, and models they'll create. Watch this webinar recording to learn how to keep things tidy.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 Metabase in data ecosystem
01:59 Key concepts and terminology
03:53 Table metadata
06:18 Mapping foreign key
07:09 Starting new questions
07:43 Collections
13:40 Models
14:45 Verifying questions and models
19:30 Bookmarking questions and models
20:17 Permissions
26:12 Collections discoverability
27:26 Adding text & link to the dashboard
29:29 Data reference
30:51 Setting home page dashboard
31:48 Q&A session
33:05 Q&A - What should you do for foreign keys if you have a combination key?
34:19 Q&A - What if there is a multiple join for the same table, and how can you make it more than one mapping for the same columns?
34:59 Q&A - How can I drill down basic reporting like year, quarter, month, week, and day?
35:54 Q&A - Why does metadata get changed for existing columns when we add new columns via SQL queries?
37:20 Q&A - Can you show how to set multiple foreign keys?
40:24 Q&A - Is it better to write a SQL View or do a model in Metabase? Also, when would you use the raw SQL in Metabase?
41:38 Q&A - Why drill down doesn’t work in the dashboard?
43:38 Q&A - How to update model metadata without breaking references?
44:53 Q&A - Can we make a backup for the questions and queries?
46:26 Q&A - Drill down by year, quarter, and month doesn’t work in the dashboard?
48:46 Q&A - If a table is referenced in the question and the table is later hidden, will the question still work?
49:23 Q&A - Can we disable download full results for the entire organization?