Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. You learn to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance. You also discover how to ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
- Duration: 1 day
- Languages: English, German
- Level: Introductory
- Group size: Up to 16
What you'll learn
- Define Looker and the capabilities it provides for working with data.
- Use dimensions, measures, and filters to analyze and visualize data.
- Use dashboards for multiple visualizations and boards to curate Looker content.
- Create advanced metrics by pivoting Looker data and writing table and offset calculations.
- Create visualizations using Looks and dashboards, and share Looker content with others.
Prerequisites
- None
Course outline
The Looker Platform
- What is Looker?
- Looker user interface
- Organizing content with folders
Data Analysis Building Blocks
- Dimensions in Looker
- Measures in Looker
- Using dimensions and measures
- Filtering dimensions
- Filtering measures
Working with Looker Content
- Filtering Looks
- Introducing dashboards
- Filtering dashboards
- Curating Looker content in boards
Customizing Explores
- Pivoting data in Looker
- Introduction to table calculations
- Types of table calculations
- Writing table calculations
- Introducing offset functions
- Writing offset calculations
Creating New Looker Content
- Creating new Looks
- Creating new dashboards
Sharing Looker Data with Others
- Sharing and scheduling Looks
- Sharing and scheduling dashboards
- Tile-level dashboard alerts
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