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Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker

Offered By: Google via Google Cloud Skills Boost

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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.

Syllabus

  • The Looker platform
    • What is Looker?
    • Looker user interface
    • Organizing content with folders
    • Module 1 Quiz
  • Data analysis building blocks
    • Dimensions in Looker
    • Measures in Looker
    • Example: Exploring measures using customer data
    • Using dimensions and measures
    • Example: Combining dimensions and measures
    • Filtering dimensions
    • Filtering measures
    • Example: Filtering with measures
    • Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
    • Module 2 Quiz
  • Working with Looker content
    • Filtering Looks
    • Introducing dashboards
    • Filtering dashboards
    • Curating Looker content in boards
    • Example: Board creation
    • Module 3 Quiz
  • Customizing Explores
    • Pivoting data in Looker
    • Example: Working with pivots
    • Introduction to table calculations
    • Types of table calculations
    • Writing table calculations
    • Example: Writing and visualizing table calculations
    • Example: Percent of total table calculations
    • Introducing offset functions
    • Writing offset calculations
    • Example: Writing offset calculations
    • Getting Started with Table Calculations and Offsets in Looker
    • Module 4 Quiz
  • Creating new Looker content
    • Creating new Looks
    • Creating new dashboards
    • Module 5 Quiz
  • Sharing Looker data with others
    • Sharing and scheduling Looks
    • Sharing and scheduling dashboards
    • Tile-level dashboard alerts
    • Module 6 Quiz
  • Course Resources
    • Course Resources
  • Your Next Steps
    • Course Badge

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