Google Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker

Overview

In this 1-day course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. You learn to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance. You also discover how to ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision-making.

Prerequisites

This workshop is designed for beginners and does not require prior experience in data visualisation or Looker.

Target Audience

This course is designed for business users who need to draw insights from data, or Data analysts who are responsible for data analysis and visualization within their organizations. This could include those in-training or currently fulfilling data insight-related roles but have little prior experience with Looker before.

Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Define Looker and the capabilities it provides for working with data.
• Use dimensions, measures, and filters to analyze and visualize data.
• Use dashboards for multiple visualizations and boards to curate Looker content.
• Create advanced metrics by pivoting Looker data and writing table and offset calculations.
• Create visualizations using Looks and dashboards, and share Looker content with others.

Outline

Module 1: The Looker Platform

• What is Looker?
• Looker user interface
• Organizing content with folders

Module 2: Data Analysis Building Blocks

• Dimensions in Looker
• Measures in Looker
• Using dimensions and measures
• Filtering dimensions
• Filtering measures

Module 3: Working with Looker Content

• Filtering Looks
• Introducing dashboards
• Filtering dashboards
• Curating Looker content in boards

Module 4: Customising Explores

• Pivoting data in Looker
• Introduction to table calculations
• Types of table calculations
• Writing table calculations
• Introducing offset functions
• Writing offset calculations

Module 5: Creating New Looker Content

• Creating new Looks
• Creating new dashboards

Module 6: Sharing Looker Data with Others

• Sharing and scheduling Looks
• Sharing and scheduling dashboards
• Tile-level dashboard alerts

Exams and Assessments

There are no formal examinations within this course. There will be a module review and summary following the practical hands-on lab, quiz and slide-deck deliveries. This will further enforce learning and support additional resource finds, for continued learning and development.

Hands-on Learning

Within this course there are opportunities for learners to engage in hands-on labs to support module learning. In addition, each module will also have a quiz, to support knowledge capture.