Looker – Complete Guide to Google Looker – LookML Developer
You can learn how to use Looker and LookML to make views, dashboards, and databases with this guide.
What you’ll learn
Looker – Complete Guide to Google Looker – LookML Developer
- Check out Looker and LookML to learn how to use them for Business Intelligence, visualization, and data modeling.
- Get familiar with Looker’s platform, interface, and terminology.
- Analyze data, make beautiful visualizations, and make sophisticated reports and dashboards with them.
- Use LookML to connect to the raw data that is under the surface of the data.
- Learn how to use LookML to combine several views into a single piece of analysis or to explore new things.
- Use LookML to create actions and workflows associated with your data.
- Take a structured language, like LookML, and use it to make complex and modular dashboards.
Requirements
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You should first take the User / Analyst course to learn how Looker is used by people who buy it.
Description
Learn how to use Google Looker Developer with more than 7 hours of instructional videos. This is the only guide that goes from beginner to expert (LookML). In this class, you will learn about LookML and use it in real-life situations.
Google Looker lets you look at, analyze, visualize, and get to your data.
Looker is a powerful business intelligence (BI) and visualization tools, like Power BI and Tableau. Companies give their employees Looker so that they can make good decisions and take good actions based on their own data.
There are more than 2,000 businesses that use the Looker app. A Visionary is someone who thinks about how things will change in the future in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.
Looker is now part of the Google Cloud Platform.
In 2020, Google bought Looker for more than $2.6 billion, which is more than twice as much as the price.
In this way, it shows how much Google thinks Looker will be the best BI and visualization software in the world for a long time.
This is the only guide for developers who want to learn about Google Looker and LookML from start to finish.
In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know about LookML right from the start. It’s also instructional in nature, which means that as you learn new things, you’ll put them into practice. Don’t just learn about things; learn how to use them. This is even more important with LookML. In addition, this course has something for everyone, no matter what level you are at.
This class is organized in a way that makes it easier for you to learn all the things you need to know about the subject. For each concept, we first talk about it in theory, and then we use a real-life example to show how it works. So that you don’t feel overwhelmed and can reach your goals. By the end of this course, you will be able to write LookML to make Explores, Looks, Reports, and Dashboards, and you will be able to do this by writing LookML.
If you want to be a developer, you need to read this one!
In this class, we learn everything a person who wants to make Google Looker would need to know. In particular, we write LookML to make Explores that people (users and analysts) can use. We talk about things like connecting data, defining dimensions and measures, making views, joining two views together, and writing dashboards.
Take the User / Analyst course instead if you want to learn how to use Looker as a consumer. You’ll learn how to analyze data, write reports and look at charts, make dashboards, organize and share reports, make custom fields and more.
If you have any questions, feel free to watch the free preview of the Course Overview, or send me a message if you do.
As a developer, you won’t need to take another course on Google Looker and LookML.
This course is part of the Developer series, and it will teach you how to write code. Take the User / Analyst series course first if you haven’t already. This will help you explain how a consumer would use Looker.
A looker is a tool that helps you find things.
It is business intelligence software and a platform for big data analytics called Looker that businesses use to let their employees look at, analyze, and share real-time business analytics and insights with each other, as well as with other people. It is now part of the Google Cloud Platform because Google bought Looker for more than $2.6 billion and now it’s part of it.
What makes Looker stand out from the rest of the pack?
A lot of people think that Looker is better than Power BI or Tableau.
It runs entirely in the cloud and is browser-based, which means that there is no desktop software that needs to be managed or kept up to date.
It has a trusted data model and a language called LookML that lets people put together data and assign business rules across the whole company. Also has powerful APIs and third-party connectors that can be used to make workflows and apps from your data. These can be used to make apps and workflows.
Describe what LookML is.
LookML is a language that can be used instead of your ETL layer. LookML is code that lets you make views, dimensions, measures, aggregations, calculations, and data relationships from your raw data. It also lets you turn your data into an Explore.
Who this course is for:
- Analysts and people who use any kind of business intelligence or visualization tool.
- There are a lot of data engineers who want to make their manual ETL process less time-consuming.
- The teams that are already using Looker in their company.
- Analysts who make dashboards for senior people and want to speed up the process.
- Some managers don’t like using Excel to make reports and dashboards. They want a better way to do this.
- Data analysts, data scientists, and managers who want to quickly find out what their data means quickly can use this tool to do that.
