Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (May 24, 2024)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1800560958
- ISBN-13: 978-1800560956
eBook Description:
Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook: Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time. Use Looker for visualizing data, data analysis, and reporting, and learn how to connect to your data, build dashboards and reports, and share insights with your team.
Looker is a data analytics and business intelligence platform that allows organizations to explore, analyze, and visualize their data. It provides tools for data modeling, exploration, and visualization, enabling you to gain insights from your data to make informed business decisions.
You’ll start with the basics, from setting up your Looker environments to configuring views and models using LookML. As you progress, you’ll delve into more advanced topics, such as navigating data in Explore, tailoring dashboards to your needs, and adding dynamic elements for interactivity. Along the way, you’ll gain invaluable troubleshooting skills to tackle common issues and optimize your Looker usage, ensuring a smooth and seamless experience. Furthermore, the book extends your understanding beyond the basics, equipping you with the knowledge you need to develop Looker applications and seamlessly integrate them with other tools and applications. You’ll also explore advanced techniques for harnessing Looker’s full potential, empowering you to establish data-driven decision-making and innovation within your organization.
- Understand Looker’s key components, including LookML, data models, and dashboards.
- Explore Looker’s functionality, including custom fields, calculations, and visualizations.
- Work with Looker dashboards using dynamic elements like links and actions.
- Use different types of filters for dimensions to create dashboards
- Develop Looker applications using essential tools and frameworks
- Explore additional applications for the Looker organization
- Integrate Looker with other tools using APIs, connectors, and data pipelines
By the end of this Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how to use Looker to find important information, make tasks easier, and derive important insights.
