Looker and LookML The Complete Course for Beginners

Looker and LookML – The Complete Course for Beginners, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.5, with 96 lectures, based on 2714 reviews, and has 14524 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn the Looker platform and interface Learn LookML from the basics Learn best practices for using Looker and LookML Become confident in using Looker for any project Be able to create analysis using Looker This course is ideal for individuals who are Users with no or little experience with Looker and LookML It is particularly useful for Users with no or little experience with Looker and LookML.

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Summary

Title: Looker and LookML – The Complete Course for Beginners

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.5

Number of Lectures: 96

Number of Published Lectures: 96

Number of Curriculum Items: 96

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 96

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn the Looker platform and interface

Learn LookML from the basics

Learn best practices for using Looker and LookML

Become confident in using Looker for any project

Be able to create analysis using Looker

Who Should Attend

Users with no or little experience with Looker and LookML

Target Audiences

Users with no or little experience with Looker and LookML

Welcome! I am here to help you learn quickly how to use Looker and LookML

Beginners welcome: no need to know anything about Looker and LookML!

Looker can be challenging to learn on your own without guidance from an experienced trainer. In this course, I will walk you through every step of using Looker and LookML in an easy to undertand way for the absolute beginner.

This course will give you a deep understanding of Looker’s functionality by using hands-on, contextual examples designed to showcase whyLooker is awesome and howhow to use it for any project.

In this Looker course you will learn:

· How to setup a free training account with Looker

· Get familiar with the Looker interface

· How to build Looks in Looker

· How to edit a Look

· How to build a dashboard

· The different elements of LookML

· How to create a custom dimension

· How to create a view from table

· Understand the different dimension types

· How to structure your project

· How to use Explores

· How to utilize the formal Looker documentation

· How to create a model in the Development environment

· The interface of the Development environment

and much, much more!

Enroll today and enjoy:

Lifetime access to the course

9 hoursof high quality, up to date video lectures

Practical Looker coursewith step by step instructions on how to implement the different features

Thanks again for checking out my course and I look forward to seeing you in the classroom

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Get a free Looker learning account

Lecture 1: Setting up a Sandbox environment – Part 1

Lecture 2: Setting up a Sandbox environment – Part 2

Lecture 3: Sandbox tip – limit of labs usage

Lecture 4: The Interface

Chapter 3: Explores – Getting Started

Lecture 1: What is an Explore in Looker?

Lecture 2: Filtering Explores

Lecture 3: Sorting our data

Lecture 4: Row Limit and Totals in Explores

Lecture 5: In Use & Clear fields options

Lecture 6: Pivoting in Explores

Lecture 7: Cache data in Looker

Lecture 8: SQL section in Explores

Lecture 9: Advanced Topic – What stand behind the Explores?

Chapter 4: Explores Part 2 – Vizualizations

Lecture 1: Into to the Visualization section

Lecture 2: Table Visulizations

Lecture 3: Column chart

Lecture 4: Bar charts

Lecture 5: Scatterplot Visualizations

Lecture 6: Line Chart

Lecture 7: Area Chart

Lecture 8: Pie Chart

Lecture 9: Map Chart

Lecture 10: Single Value

Lecture 11: Donut Multiples

Lecture 12: Single Record

Lecture 13: Table Legacy visulization

Lecture 14: Word Cloud

Chapter 5: Explores Part 3 – Custom Fields

Lecture 1: What are Custom Fields?

Lecture 2: Create a custom dimension – group items

Lecture 3: Custom Binning

Lecture 4: Create a custom measure from a dimension

Lecture 5: Create a custom measure 2

Lecture 6: Apply filters to our custom fields

Lecture 7: Creating a custom dimension using a Looker expression

Lecture 8: Looker Expressions – Part 2

Chapter 6: Explores Part 4 – Filters deep dive

Lecture 1: Filters – The Basics

Lecture 2: Filters – The Basics Part 2

Lecture 3: Matches Advanced filtering expressions

Lecture 4: Custom Filter options

Chapter 7: Looks

Lecture 1: Creating our first Look

Lecture 2: Editing our saved Look

Lecture 3: Looks options – Sending, Sharing, Scheduling, adding to Boards and more

Chapter 8: Dashboards – Beginner to Expert

Lecture 1: Creating our first Dashboard – Part 1

Lecture 2: Creating our first Dashboard – Part 2

Lecture 3: Dashboard filtering

Lecture 4: Cross-filtering

Lecture 5: Dashboard settings

Lecture 6: Dashboard options

Chapter 9: Other useful tips and tricks for Users and Looker Analysts

Lecture 1: Looker Shortcuts

Lecture 2: The History option

Lecture 3: Looker Marketplace

Lecture 4: Boards

Lecture 5: Boards – Part 2

Chapter 10: LookML Basics

Lecture 1: Explore the LookML environment

Lecture 2: Elements of LookML

Lecture 3: Fields

Lecture 4: Views

Lecture 5: Explore

Lecture 6: Models

Lecture 7: Project

Lecture 8: Dimension and Measure Fields

Lecture 9: Dimension Types

Chapter 11: LookML Practice – Beginner

Lecture 1: Create Folders and tidy up your space

Lecture 2: Create a view

Lecture 3: Create dimensions on our view

Lecture 4: Create a measure in our view

Lecture 5: Commit Changes and Deploy to Production

Lecture 6: Join a View to an existing Model and Explore

Lecture 7: Create a new custom dimension based on calculation

Lecture 8: Create a new custom measure

Lecture 9: Decimals in our custom measure

Chapter 12: LookML Practice – Intermediate

Lecture 1: Add filters to your Explores using LookML – Always_Filter

Lecture 2: Add filters in LookML – Part 2 (sql_always_where)

Lecture 3: Add filters in LookML – Part 3 (sql_always_having)

Lecture 4: Add filters in LookML – Part 4 (conditionality_filter)

Lecture 5: Using commenting in LookML

Lecture 6: Create our first Model in LookML

Lecture 7: Create a join

Lecture 8: Limiting fields in a join

Lecture 9: Changing field names

Lecture 10: Dashboards – User-Defined vs LookML Dashboards

Chapter 13: LookML Practice – Advanced

Lecture 1: Datagroups in LookML

Lecture 2: Apply the datagroup

Lecture 3: LookML reference

Lecture 4: The Looker Community

Chapter 14: LookML – Integrating Looker with Git

Instructors

George Smarts
Use software to become a productivity superstar

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2 stars: 32 votes

3 stars: 228 votes

4 stars: 964 votes

5 stars: 1471 votes

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