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Metabase

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool for simple, self-serve exploration of data.

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It offers a point-and-click question builder, dashboards and SQL editor, and can be self-hosted or used as a cloud service.

It is popular with smaller teams that want fast self-service on top of a warehouse.

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