Course Description

In this course, you will 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.

Objectives

This course teaches participants the following skills:

• Define Looker and the capabilities it provides for working with data

• Explain the four core analytical concepts in Looker (dimensions, measures, filters, pivots)

• Use dimensions, measures, filters, and pivots to analyze and visualize data

• Create dashboards to combine and share visualizations

• Explain how table calculations create advanced metrics instantaneously 

Audience

This course targets the following business professional roles:

• Business users who need to draw insights from data.

• Data analysts who are responsible for data analysis and visualization within their organizations. 

Topics covered

• Looker as a business user

Topics not covered

• Data sources
• Development
• LookML (Looker Modeling Language)
• Looker admin features and functions
• Data sources, Development, LookML (Looker Modeling Language), Administration

Duration

3 hours

Delivery Method

Instructor-led, Instructor-led online

What to bring

For this class, please bring:

• Laptop (Windows, Mac OS or Linux)