Option 3: Answer freeform questions and what-ifs
For asking and answering freeform questions and what-ifs, you can use our tool Metabase. If you’re good with charts and graphs this is a good option and let’s you play with the data through a graphical interface. (Alternatively, if you want a quick way to run SQL queries and visualise them, you can do that in Metabase.)
To get started, here are some questions that members of the Restarters community would already like to know the answer to: Exploring our repair data - what do you want to know?
Click for info on using Metabase
- Navigate to our Metabase instance
- Log in - we have a generic account for the day:
- email: tech+odd@therestartproject.org
- pass: opendata2019
- (If you would like your own account, get a hold of @neil!)
- Have a play: start with ‘Ask a question’ → ‘Custom’
- Read a short tutorial on using Metabase