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Explore data visualization, analysis, and reporting with Looker to gain insights from your data

Connect to data sources, build dashboards, and create reports to track and share key metrics

Share insights with your team to make better business decisions

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Description

Looker is a data analytics and business intelligence platform that allows organizations to explore, analyze, and visualize their data. It provides tools for data modeling, exploration, and visualization, enabling you to gain insights from your data to make informed business decisions. You’ll start with the basics, from setting up your Looker environments to configuring views and models using LookML. As you progress, you’ll delve into more advanced topics, such as navigating data in Explore, tailoring dashboards to your needs, and adding dynamic elements for interactivity. Along the way, you'll gain invaluable troubleshooting skills to tackle common issues and optimize your Looker usage, ensuring a smooth and seamless experience. Furthermore, the book extends your understanding beyond the basics, equipping you with the knowledge you need to develop Looker applications and seamlessly integrate them with other tools and applications. You'll also explore advanced techniques for harnessing Looker's full potential, empowering you to establish data-driven decision-making and innovation within your organization. By the end of this BI book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to use Looker to find important information, make tasks easier, and derive important insights.

What you will learn

Understand Looker's key components, including LookML, data models, and dashboards.

Explore Looker's functionality, including custom fields, calculations, and visualizations.

Work with Looker dashboards using dynamic elements like links and actions.

Use different types of filters for dimensions to create dashboards

Develop Looker applications using essential tools and frameworks

Explore additional applications for the Looker organization

Integrate Looker with other tools using APIs, connectors, and data pipelines

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Frequently bought together

€56.99

Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

€29.99

Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform

€31.99

Total € 118.97

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Silja Märdla Oct 03, 2024

I read it cover to cover, to remind myself of all the options out there. I wanted to make sure I don’t forget something essential when working on Looker design and guidelines for my organisation. For me, the little suggestions alog the lines of “ususally this functionality can be used for…” were very helpful to get me thinking about how I want to do things.Thinking back on how I first started learning Looker, this book would have been useful. It does start from the very beginning of how you get started, but then goes on to cover most of the functionality. Meaning, you’ll be able to do more than someone who just completed a 1-hour “getting started” tutorial. And, you will have a solid understanding of the big picture of what the tool offers and where your own work stands relative to the full offering.It’s a reasonably quick read: it describes what you can do, shares an example and moves on to the next thing. If you have any previous experience with any other BI tool, but you want to learn a new tool, this book will be perfect for you. It’s probably not a book you can use to learn data and business intelligence from scratch, especially if you’re not very tech savvy.

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S. Jun 24, 2024

I just finished reading "Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook" by Khrystyna Grynko. The guide comprehensively covers every aspect of Looker, but it could benefit from more tips on speeding up processes, especially when using Looker ML models. I revised several familiar concepts and learned about new features, such as embedding Looker into external websites and integrating it with platforms like Google Sheets and Looker Studio. However, I missed information on integrating with Gemini. Overall, it's a must-read for mastering Looker and streamlining data visualization processes.

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