Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80056-095-6 (ISBN)
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 DescriptionLooker 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 forIf 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.
Khrystyna is a data analyst and Looker expert with over a decade of experience in the field. With a passion for empowering businesses through data-driven decisions, Khrystyna transitioned from her early career in digital marketing to specialize in data analysis. Graduating from Lumière University Lyon 2 with a Master's degree in Business Intelligence, she honed her skills by working with various companies, leveraging data to tackle real-world challenges and drive strategic growth. Recognized as a thought leader in the industry, Khrystyna is a sought-after speaker at industry events and has authored numerous articles on data analytics and Looker. Beyond her professional endeavours, she dedicates her time to mentoring and coaching aspiring data professionals, sharing her expertise and insights to foster growth and innovation in the field.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken |
| Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80056-095-8 / 1800560958 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80056-095-6 / 9781800560956 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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