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Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

You're reading from   Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560956
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Looker 2. Chapter 2: Configuring Views and Models in a LookML Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Data in Explores 4. Chapter 4: Customizing and Serving Dashboards 5. Chapter 5: Making Dashboards Interactive through Dynamic Elements 6. Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Looker 7. Chapter 7: Integrating Looker with Other Applications 8. Chapter 8: Organizing the Looker Environment 9. Chapter 9: Administering and Monitoring Looker 10. Chapter 10: Preparing to Develop Looker Applications 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Editing visualizations

When working with visualizations in Looker, you have the possibility to use the existing ones, add additional visualizations from Looker Marketplace, and develop and then add your own custom visualizations (adding happens in the Admin panel) as well.

You can edit the visualizations in the Explore to make them more clear, beautiful, organized, and readable for your audience.

Getting ready

Make sure you are in your Orders and Users Explore. We can continue working with the Results table from the previous section that has the Age Group and Gender columns and is pivoted by gender (Figure 3.11). Make sure the Visualizations section is open and that the visualization looks like the one we have in Figure 3.11.

How to do it...

To edit our existing column-type/bar chart visualization, you need to do the following:

  1. In the Visualization section, click on Edit (near Forecast).
  2. You will see multiple tabs:
    1. Go to the Plot tab:
      1. In the Plot tab in Series...
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