The document discusses tools for data analysis and building intelligence including Metabase, an open source business intelligence tool used by over 21,000 companies daily. It focuses on speeding up the time it takes to answer questions from data through automation and building a "data scientist in a box". The goal is to answer 80% of questions from data in under 20 minutes to facilitate real-time exploration and problem solving.

1. simon@metabase.com
@sbelak
Exploratory analysis:
automation, augmentation,
and building tools for thought

2. Goal: answer 80% of
questions stemming from
data in <20min

3. The analytics chasm
2 min 20 min project
Ideal. Almost real-time. Can be
done during brainstorming
without disrupting the flow.
:(
Added to roadmapSqueeze in
somewhere
in the day

4. Doing our job better is
often a matter of speed
and quantity

5. Metabase ❤
github.com/metabase/metabase
• Open source BI/analytics tool
• Runs on-premise, data-agnostic
• 21k+ companies use us daily
• Focus on UX and friendliness
• Building a “data scientist in a box”

6. Metabase ❤
github.com/metabase/metabase
• Open source BI/analytics tool
• Runs on-premise, data-agnostic
• 21k+ companies use us daily
• Focus on UX and friendliness
• Building a “data scientist in a box”

7. From artificial intelligence
to augmenting human
intelligence

8. Flow

9. Affordances of our tools
shape how we approach
problems

10. Think in
distributions

11. http://www.onyxplatform.org/jekyll/update/2017/02/08/Pyroclast-Preview-Simulation.html

12. Flow v. Hub-and-spoke

14. Factor out the
mechanical part of the
analysis

15. Nils, wrong encodings,
outliers, input errors

16. Every aggregated
metric is a mixture
of all your segments

17. A lot of problems are also
time series problems
(we just don’t treat them
as such)

18. Changes in distribution
a r e h i n t s a b o u t
underlying changes in
segment mixture

19. Declarative analysis:
Directing focus, rather
than specifying the steps

20. Building intelligence

21. Semantic + structural
model

22. REPL + notebook
+ Metabase?

23. Questions
P.S. We’re hiring!