Step 2. Create a workbook

Do you have the data ready for analysis? Now, it’s time to create a workbook. The Workbook module supports the visualization of data. Click the Metatron Discovery logo on the upper left to enter your personal workspace.

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Let’s begin by clicking the + Workbook button on the bottom right. Enter the name and description for the workbook. The checkbox is marked by default for you to create a dashboard once a workbook is created. A single workbook contains multiple dashboards, and each single dashboard contains multiple charts.

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Proceed with creating a dashboard. A dashboard requires a data source for visualization. This data source can be either a single source, or joined data sources. See Create a dashboard for further details. This tutorial uses Sales Report, ingested previously in Step 1.

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Click the + Add data source button for the data source selection popup. Search Sales Report, or select the Show open data only checkbox and choose from the results.

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Finally, enter the Name and Description for the dashboard.

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You have created a dashboard in the workbook. Now, you can add widgets to the dashboard.

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Let’s proceed to the next step.