Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook
Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook
Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time
About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
- Getting started in Looker environment
- Configuring views and models in LookML project
- Working with data in Explores
- Customizing and serving the dashboards
- Making dashboards interactive through dynamic elements
- Troubleshooting Looker
- Preparing to develop Looker applications
- Organizing Looker environment
- Administering and Monitoring Looker
- Integrating Looker with other Applications
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