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Open Source Data Analytics with Sameer Al-Sakran

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Data analytics and business intelligence involve collecting, processing, and interpreting data to guide decision-making. A common challenge in data-focused organizations is how to make data accessible to the wider organization, without the need for large data teams. Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that focuses on data exploration, visualization, and analysis. It offers

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0:00.0

Data analytics and business intelligence involve collecting, processing, and interpreting data

0:04.7

to guide decision-making.

0:06.4

A common challenge in data-focused organizations is how to make data accessible to the

0:10.7

wider organization without the need for large data teams.

0:14.6

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that focuses on data exploration,

0:19.2

visualization, and analysis. It offers a lightweight deployment

0:22.9

strategy and aims to solve common challenges around data-driven decision-making. A key aspect of

0:28.5

its interface is that it allows users to interact with data with or without SQL. Samir Al-Sachron

0:34.8

is the founder and CEO of Metabase. He joins the show to talk about the challenge of data accessibility,

0:40.9

the evolution of the data analytics field,

0:43.4

key lessons from his 14 years leading Metabase,

0:46.4

why the platform uses the Closure language, and much more.

0:50.4

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

0:53.1

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him.

1:09.0

Samir, welcome to the show.

1:10.5

Thank you. It's a great to be here again. Yeah, thanks so much.. Thank you, thank you.

1:11.1

It's a great to be here again.

1:12.3

Yeah, thanks so much.

1:13.6

So we're talking to analytics today.

1:15.6

I think, you know, there's been various approaches to analytics have been around for a long

1:19.6

time.

1:19.8

There's been a bunch of different generations of BI tools, things from like Tablo and Looker.

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