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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

Adding visualizations to dashboards

In the previous chapters, we have already explored how to create a dashboard from Explore: you first need to create your Look (visualization) in Explore, then you click on the gear ⚙ icon near the Run button and choose Save -> As a new dashboard (Figure 4.1).

As a reminder, a Look in Looker is a saved analysis (query result) or visualization that provides insights into your data. It is a single, reusable building block that can be combined with other Looks to create dashboards and to be shared with users.

Figure 4.1 – Create dashboard from Explore

Figure 4.1 – Create dashboard from Explore

You can save your Explore analysis (visualization) as a Look or add it directly to a new or existing dashboard (Figure 4.2). Later, you can add other elements called tiles to your dashboard. Tiles can be visualizations (based on Looks or created specifically for the dashboard) or text. How do we add elements to the dashboard directly from the tile dashboard...

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