Course
Skills
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.
What you'll learn
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. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.
Table of contents
Introduction to the Course
1min
Introduction to Looker
17mins
The Looker platform
19mins
Core Analytics Concepts
30mins
- Module 2 Introduction 1m
- Core analytics concepts 2m
- Dimensions in Looker 3m
- Measures in Looker 1m
- Example: Exploring measures using customer data 2m
- Using dimensions and measures 2m
- Example: Combining dimensions and measures 2m
- Filtering dimensions 2m
- Filtering measures 3m
- Example: Time dimensions and filters 2m
- Pivoting data in Looker 2m
- Example: Working with pivots 3m
- Lab Intro: Getting Started with Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker 0m
- Pluralsight: Getting Started with GCP and Qwiklabs 4m
- Module 2 Summary 1m
Data analysis building blocks
23mins
- Dimensions in Looker 3m
- Measures in Looker 1m
- Example: Exploring measures using customer data 3m
- Using dimensions and measures 2m
- Example: Combining dimensions and measures 2m
- Filtering dimensions 2m
- Filtering measures 4m
- Example: Filtering with measures 2m
- Pluralsight: Getting Started with GCP and Qwiklabs 4m
- Lab: Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker 0m
Table Calculations
26mins
- Module 3 Introduction 1m
- Introduction to table calculations 7m
- Types of table calculations 5m
- Example: Writing and visualizing table calculations 3m
- Types of offset calculations 5m
- Example: Writing offset calculations 4m
- Lab Intro: Working with Table Calculations and Offsets in Looker 0m
- Module 3 Summary 1m
Working with Looker content
15mins
Looks and Dashboards
23mins
Customizing Explores
37mins
- Pivoting data in Looker 2m
- Example: Working with pivots 3m
- Introduction to table calculations 3m
- Types of table calculations 5m
- Writing table calculations 6m
- Example: Writing and visualizing table calculations 3m
- Example: Percent of total table calculations 5m
- Introducing offset functions 5m
- Writing offset calculations 4m
- Example: Writing offset calculations 2m
- Lab: Getting Started with Table Calculations and Offsets in Looker 0m
Content Management
10mins
Creating new Looker content
8mins
Course Summary
1min
Sharing Looker data with others
15mins
Course Resources
0mins
Course Resources
0mins
