Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Khrystyna Grynko

Paid access

|Sep 2024

E-Book €23.99Institutions €128.95

Description

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

Key Features

Explore data visualization, analysis, and reporting with Looker to gain insights from your data
Connect to data sources, build dashboards, and create reports to track and share key metrics
Share insights with your team to make better business decisions
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Book Description

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.
By the end of this BI book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to use Looker to find important information, make tasks easier, and derive important insights.

What you will learn

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

Who this book is for

If you’re a business analyst, data analyst, or BI developer who wants to get well-versed with the features of Looker, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of business intelligence is required to get started.